CFO proposes 6.3 percent tuition increase

By Kate Monohan and Bryce de Flamand

Daily Campus

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

UConn’s Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Richard Gray, presented his plan for a 6.3 percent increase in tuition and a combined 13 percent increase for room and board for the 2011 fiscal year at a town hall meeting in the Dodd Center on Monday.

Gray’s budget proposal will be presented to the Board of Trustees at a meeting on Thursday, Feb. 18. The tuition raise is merely a proposal; last year, Gray recommended a tuition increase of 8.6 percent, but the board enacted a much lower 6 percent.

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