The Iowa Board of Regents held the first reading of proposed increases in room and board rates at the three state universities. The increases will be just below two percent at Iowa State University and Northern Iowa, and half a percent at the University of Iowa. Brad Berg of the Regents staff says the schools base their charges on the cost of operation.
Berg says the increases being requested are some of the smallest they have seen and says that’s been helped by schools working together.
The most common room and board plan at U-I would cost a little more than 10-thousand dollars, it would cost around 85-hundred dollars at I-S-U and around 86-hundred dollars at U-N-I. The Board of Regents will hold a second reading and vote on approval of the increases at their meeting in April.
