Proposed tuition/fee hike about 5 percent

The UW System Board of Regents will set tuition rates for the 2009-10 academic year at the board meeting July 9 in Madison. It was announced Friday (July 3) that President Kevin P. Reilly will ask the Board to approve tuition increases of 5.5 percent for most of the system’s students. Reilly called the increase “modest” if considered in light of the UW System’s need to manage more than $100 million in reductions, lapses, and reallocations for the new fiscal year that began this week. Reilly is also proposing a tuition freeze for the third consecutive year at the 13 UW System Colleges.

If UW Regents approve tuition levels as proposed today, the “total” — tuition plus segregated fees, which are set at the campus level — will be $6,614 for a Wisconsin resident attending UW-Green Bay full-time for the 2009-10 academic year. That breaks down to $5,364 for tuition and $1,250 for student fees. With an increase of only $26 in seg fees, the combined number is up roughly 4.85 percent from last year’s $6,308 annual bill.