Think a 5.1% tuition hike is bad? Just wait - Jacqueline Rabe Thomas, Connecticut Mirror

The 5.1 percent tuition hike college officials are looking at to erase a deficit for the next school year may be nothing compared with the increases the system could be forced to implement if the governor gets his way. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's proposed budget sheds the state of responsibility for the actual costs of paying the medical, retirement and other fringe benefit costs for thousands of college and university employees. Instead, the state budget would send a lump sum payment to officials managing the Connecticut State Universities, the University of Connecticut, community colleges and online Charter Oak State College. http://www.ctmirror.org/story/19208/think-51-tuition-hike-bad-just-wait