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Monday, January 28, 2002
Va. Governor Proposes Tuition Increase
The proposal is an attempt
to address the $3.5 billion
shortfall Virginia is facing
for 2003 and 2004.
By Wes Misson
Staff Writer
A projected $3.5 billion shortfall in
Virginia’s budget during the next 30
months has caused Gov. Mark Warner
to propose breaking a long-standing
freeze on tuition at the state’s public uni
versities.
Warner submitted amendments to
the Virginia budget last week, advocat
ing a tuition increase of up to 5 percent
for in-state students and more than 5
percent for out-of-state and graduate stu
dents.
The plan presents schools with the
option of raising tuition but calls for the
majority of the money to be turned over
to the state.
Officials at the University of Virginia
expressed displeasure at the budget
amendment.
Colette Sheehy, vice president for
management and budget at UVa., said
the university’s officials “have a prob
lem” with Warner’s proposal. “He’s cal
culated a percent and required for that
money to be returned to the common-
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The last tuition increase at UVa.
occurred in 1995-96, after which the
state legislature froze tuition in the state.
But the new plan might force UVa. and
other public institutions to raise tuition
for next year.
“They’re basically going to take the
money anyway,” Sheehy said, pointing
out that Warner’s amendment would
not give universities a fair choice in
deciding whether to raise tuition.
Sheehy added that the tuition freeze
over the past few years has allowed peer
institutions to catch up and surpass UVa.
in costs. “We prefer that tuition policy
be dealt with by the Board of Visitors,”
she said.
Warner’s budget amendments
address a $3.5 billion shortfall during
the next 30-month period, which starts
July 1, 2002, and covers the fiscal years
2003 and 2004.
Former Virginia Gov. James S.
Gilmore proposed in his final budget
last month to raise tuition by a flat S2OO
across the commonwealth.
Ellen Qualls, Warner’s press secre
tary, said Gilmore’s plan would have
raised tuition by as much as 17 percent
at lower-cost institutions. “Our plan is a
bit more of a compromise,” Qualls said.
“We want to limit an increase to keep
tuition reasonable and affordable.”
Another part of the plan that is caus
ing controversy across Virginia is a pro
posed salary freeze for state employees,
including university faculty.
Some fear the salary freeze will hurt
faculty recruitment and retention efforts
and might cause the ranking of Virginia
public colleges to drop.
“The philosophy of Governor
Warner is to spread the level of sacrifice
across all entities,” Qualls said. “He is
keeping a basic safety net for the frail,
the elderly and the poor. In terms of pri
ority, faculty salaries aren’t there, but
he’s concerned with it.”
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It remained unclear if the Republican
majority in the Virginia legislature
would support Warner’s proposals.
But Qualls said Warner met with
leaders in Richmond, Va., and reached
an agreement on the overall framework.
“None of the choices that my finance
team presented me with was easy,”
Warner stated in a press release.
“I believe that we have succeeded as
best we can in a difficult situation.”
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Campus Calendar
Today
Theta Nu Xi will be sponsoring a
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For the Record
The Dec. 3 edition of “Tar Heel
History" incorrectly stated that Michael
Pope was arrested in 1991 for scalping
basketball tickets stolen from the UNC
mailroom.The tickets were never actu
ally in the possession of the mailroom.
Pope was hired to deliver the tickets
to a processing facility in Raleigh when
he appropriated them for himself
instead.
The Daily Tar Heel regrets the error.
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