Is a tuition increase coming at YSU?

YOUNGSTOWN — Tuition at Youngstown State University could rise 6 percent next fall, or, it might not increase at all.

It really depends on what the state will do next year in terms of subsidy payments to the Ohio institutions of higher learning.

YSU and other state colleges and universities have had a tuition freeze in place for two years in return for increased state funding that amounted to an additional 10 percent at YSU this year. Tuition is holding at $6,720 a year for in-state undergraduate students.

Ohio has created the University System of Ohio, linking all the state schools together, and the chancellor of higher education has asked the schools to come up with tuition estimates as the governor prepares his biennial budget this fall.

It’s all just discussion at this point, part of the schools’ required responses to the state’s 10-year strategic plan for higher education.

The Finance and Facilities Committee of the YSU trustee board met today to begin mapping out a response and found itself looking at a number of tuition possibilities.

For the complete story, see Friday’s Vindicator and Vindy.com.