Iowa State University’s president is proposing a tuition hike — so juniors and seniors at the school would pay higher tuition rates than freshmen and sophomores.

 

That’s I-S-U president Steven Leath. He will ask the Board of Regents for permission to phase in this new, “two-tiered” structure over a three-year period.

 

Last December, Leath told the governor his university was nearly at a “tipping point” because there’s been an enrollment “surge” for the past eight years, but state funding hasn’t increased at a comparable rate