University of Iowa president Bruce Harreld is following the lead of his counterpart at Iowa state University and calling for an increase of around seven percent (7.08) in tuition in each of the next five years. The U-I was the last of the three state-supported schools to make their  presentation to the Board of Regents Tuition Task Force.

 

Harreld says salaries at the school have fallen behind their peers due to a cut in state funding and that is going to hurt the quality of the education offered.

 

The proposed increases would add three-thousand-50 dollars onto the base tuition for an undergraduate student by the end of the five-year period. Harreld says the U-I cannot continue forward with its plan to improve student success without the proper funding.

Iowa State University interim president Ben Allen proposed a similar seven-percent increase in tuition last week.