MTSU also proposes 3% increase for graduate tuition
Proposed campus housing fees will climb
MTSU proposes a $9 total increase to fees, including for parking services
MTSU undergraduates should pay about $168 more annually for in-state tuition and fees per 15-hour semester during the 2021-22 academic year, a committee has recommended.
The 1.78% combined increase follows a year without increases to tuition and fees due to the pandemic. The proposal is less than the 2.36% increase approved two years ago. If approved, the undergraduates would pay $9,592 annually, including $150 more for in-state tuition and $18 for mandatory fees that include parking.
The Middle Tennessee State University Board of Trustees Finance and Personnel Committee also endorsed providing a bonus to all employees. The final amount would be $500 or 1% of pay, whichever is greater. Rutherford County and Murfreesboro school officials provided similar employee bonuses this past spring.
The “aging infrastructure” of the 109-year-old institution and years of “deferred maintenance” have made for this and other decidedly not 21st-century conditions on campus. The university can t afford to pay for upkeep, much less advance its technological capabilities. It has been historically underfunded by the state of Tennessee and shortchanged hundreds of millions of dollars it was owed for at least 50 years.
“I can’t overstress the dramatic effect [the underfunding has] had on TSU,” said Glenda Baskin Glover, president of Tennessee State. “It has severely hampered our student and faculty technology advancements, our ability to recruit academically talented students, to compete with the scholarship offers from other schools that can offer much more competitive scholarship packages. That’s where we are.”
East Tennessee State Universityâs Board of Trustees unanimously approved a 1.98% tuition increase for the 2021-22 academic year, which will increase the cost of tuition for students by $75 per semester.
The increase is slightly below the 0-to-2% tuition increase cap the Tennessee Higher Education Commission is expected to approve in May, and will provide the university with about $1.98 million in revenue, which which will be used to fund the salary pool.
Graduate students will see a slightly lower increase at 1.67%. Out-of-state tuition for students in neighboring states will be capped at $10,500, while students from the other 44 statesâ tuition is capped at $13,500. International students will see no increase in tuition.
MTSU Board of Trustees approves three new bachelor’s degree programs Apr 07, 2021 at 10:14 am by WGNS
MTSU Trustee Pam Wright gives the report of the Academic Affairs, Student Life and Athletics Committee, which she chairs, during the Board of Trustees meeting held Tuesday, April 6, 2021, inside the Miller Education Center. (MTSU photo by Andy Heidt)
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. Middle Tennessee State University’s Board of Trustees approved new bachelor’s degree programs in supply chain management, media management and photography at its quarterly meeting Tuesday (April 6).
Trustees approved the recommendations of the Academic Affairs, Student Life and Athletics Committee, which included:
• Elevating the existing concentration in Supply Chain Management within the Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) in Management to a free-standing B.B.A. degree with a major in Supply Chain Management
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