Iowa Governor Terry Branstad says the board that governs the state’s three public universities should “seriously look at” an across-the-board tuition increase of two-hundred dollars ($200) for all students.  It’s less than what the Board of Regents is considering, but Branstad is praising student government leaders at the University of Iowa for offering that alternative.

 

Branstad is signalling the board should give “serious consideration” to doing something different when it votes on the proposed tuition hikes in July.

 

Regents asked Branstad and the state legislature to provide an extra 20 million dollars in state taxpayer support for the budget year that begins July 1st. Branstad says the economic reality is the state isn’t collecting as much in taxes as had been predicted last year.