Both committee reports have maintained the expectation that the Board of Regents will still support a tuition freeze, despite cuts that will likely erode quality.
In the Governor's amended budget today, he cut the original $16.9 million from the base budget that would support the tuition freeze. In its place, he has filled the $16.9 million hole with two years of funding from the federal stimulus package. The upside of this proposal is that there will be full-funding of the budget and tuition freeze for two years. The downside is that after two years, a larger-than-normal hole will open up that will need to be filled by state dollars in FY2012.
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It is IMPERATIVE that the Board of Regents does not support a budget that fails to address an increase in tuition. Why can't legislators see how detrimental this would be to quality of education in MD? Who cares about a tuition freeze when quality would be hit so hard, especially in MD's growth schools? If we can't maintain a fully-funded tuition freeze, would it really be that horrible if schools increased tuition by as little as $100 per student? - think about how much this would help.
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