By Madison Stephens & William Skipworth & Columbia Missourian • 6 hours ago Credit Sara Shahriari / KBIA A plan to increase tuition above the rate of inflation at MU and throughout the UM System was proposed Thursday to the system’s governing board. The University of Missouri System Board of Curators is likely to take up the proposed increase next month at a specially called meeting. It was unclear whether the board would vote on the increase then or at a future meeting. At their daylong meeting, curators discussed the plan, presented by the system’s top finance officer, as well as a new undergraduate veterinary tech program at the MU College of Veterinary Medicine, new policies banning relationships between faculty or staff and students and the system’s five-year capital plan.