Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds is giving a thumbs down to proposed tuition hikes at the three state universities in Ames, Cedar Falls and Iowa City.
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The presidents of the three public universities have unveiled five-year-long tuition recommendations.
The university presidents say their recommendations are based on the assumption the governor and legislators will not recommend increased state support of the schools in the next five years. Reynolds isn’t revealing whether she’ll recommend increasing state taxpayer support of the three universities next year.
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The governor says that university leaders should look to renegotiate the pay and benefit packages for campus staff and professors as a way to save money.
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