In 10-year plan, cost of tuition would go down

COLUMBUS (AP) — The cost to attend an Ohio university would be among the lowest in the nation in 10 years under goals outlined Monday to reverse the state’s trend of high tuition and lower-than-average college attendance.

Lowering the costs for students would give more Ohioans access to higher education, one of the three prongs of a 10-year plan by Ohio Board of Regents Chancellor Eric Fingerhut that also seeks to keep more college graduates in Ohio and attract them from out of state.

The goal of drastically lowering what students pay for college depends partially on the state’s committing more dollars to higher education in the coming years, something it had recently failed to do until a two-year tuition freeze was implemented in the current budget.