{"id":96213,"date":"2019-05-10T15:58:47","date_gmt":"2019-05-11T01:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=96213"},"modified":"2019-05-10T15:58:47","modified_gmt":"2019-05-11T01:58:47","slug":"tuition-freeze-proposal-before-bor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/05\/10\/tuition-freeze-proposal-before-bor\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuition freeze proposal to go before <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> regents"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/students-gnrc-red-bkgrd.jpg\" alt=\"Students interacting cheerfully\" width=\"676\" height=\"424\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-65289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/students-gnrc-red-bkgrd.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/students-gnrc-red-bkgrd-260x163.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/students-gnrc-red-bkgrd-480x300.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span><\/a> administration is proposing a three-year freeze in undergraduate tuition rates at <abbr>UH<\/abbr>\u2019s 10 campuses, beginning in the 2020&#8211;2021 academic year. The proposal also includes decreases in the general graduate education tuition rates at <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa. The proposed, three-year tuition schedule goes before the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/offices\/bor\/\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> Board of Regents<\/a> at its May 16 meeting at <a href=\"https:\/\/windward.hawaii.edu\/\">Windward Community College<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/offices\/bor\/regular\/materials\/201905160945\/BOR_Meeting_of__05_16_19__Meeting_Materials___FOR_UPLOAD.pdf\">Board meeting materials (<small><abbr title=\"portable document format\">PDF<\/abbr><\/small>)<\/a> (see page 25)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The proposed freeze in undergraduate tuition rates is intended to keep higher education accessible and affordable for the people of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>. The proposed schedule also includes decreases in resident and non-resident graduate school tuition rates that will increase the university\u2019s competitiveness in attracting graduate students. Providing stable tuition rates over a multi-year period in all categories will have a positive impact on student retention and recruitment.<\/p>\n<p>In fall 2019 <abbr>UH<\/abbr> will enter the third year of the current three-year tuition schedule that was approved by the Board of Regents in 2016. Resident undergraduate tuition for the next academic year will increase by two percent at <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa<\/a> and for lower division courses at the <a href=\"http:\/\/uhcc.hawaii.edu\/\">seven community colleges<\/a>, and by one percent at <a href=\"https:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/westoahu.hawaii.edu\/\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The proposed tuition freeze is expected in the 2020&#8211;2021 academic year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1193],"tags":[61,62,63,64,65,71,14,9,60,947,59,66],"class_list":["post-96213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative","tag-hawaii-community-college","tag-honolulu-community-college","tag-kapiolani-community-college","tag-kauai-community-college","tag-leeward-community-college","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-uh-hilo","tag-uh-manoa","tag-maui-college","tag-uh-system","tag-uh-west-oahu","tag-windward-community-college","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96213"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96308,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96213\/revisions\/96308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}