Two years of tuition freezes set to end

January 13, 2009 at 4:12p.m.

YOUNGSTOWN — The state bought two years of tuition freezes at Ohio’s public universities by offering increased funding assistance in 2007-08 and 2008-09.

That two-year time period ends this fall, and it doesn’t look like the state will have money to entice those universities to offer those freezes again.

Eric D. Fingerhut, Ohio’s chancellor of higher education, said Tuesday that any discussion about the level of state aid to higher education will be addressed by Gov. Ted Strickland when he delivers his budget message near the end of the month.

Word coming out of Columbus shows a very tight financial picture.

Read more in Wednesday’s Vindicator and Vindy.com