University Senate budget committee report outlines challenges facing SU - Dylan Segelbaum, Daily Orange

During former Chancellor Nancy Cantor’s tenure, enrollment “significantly increased,” according to the budget committee’s report. Numbers the administration previously provided put this increase at about 22 percent from 2004–12. The report states it appears that was done to compensate for declining rates of tuition increases as well as growing “discount rates.” SU has looked to so-called “geographies of opportunity” such as the South and the West, as the admissions staff has said the number of students entering college will decline during the next decade, according to the report. International students, who Dudczak said made up 1-in-9 people in this year’s incoming freshman class, have also been heavily recruited. These students typically do not get much financial aid, which helps lower the cost of tuition for others, according to the report. http://alumni.dailyorange.com/2014/04/budget-report-outlines-issues-facing-su/