Iowa State University's interim president submitted a plan to raise tuition at the Ames university 7 percent a year for the next five years. Benjamin Allen presented the proposal to the Board of Regents Tuition Task Force today. It would add $522 dollars to base tuition starting in the fall of 2018.
Tuition would then gradually be increased to $684 dollars a year by the fall of 2022.
The proposal's based on the presumption that the Board of Regents would receive no increase in funding for the three state universities duing the five year period. Last year, all regents schools had state funding cut by the legislature.
Allen says last year ISU received $3,700 less in state support per resident student than in 2009.