SRU trustees forego tuition increase
Slippery Rock University students will not pay more for tuition in the 2022-23 school year.
The university’s council of trustees voted in a virtual special meeting Monday to rescind a proposed 2% tuition increase because the recently passed 2022-23 state budget provides additional funding to the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, and negates the need for an increase, trustees said.
The proposed tuition hike was forwarded to the state system chancellor on Dec. 10.
Bill Behre, SRU president, said the school was prepared to freeze tuition if the legislature came through with an increase in funding in the budget. The budget includes a $200 million investment in student tuition and has allocated an additional $75 million for the state system.
“It was necessary, it was a real investment into the commonwealth,” Behre said. “If we didn't get the funding from commonwealth, we were trying to come up with the best way to survive. Now we are looking at how to thrive.”
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