Beginning this fall, students who enroll in any of the University System of Georgia’s 35 institutions will receive a guarantee that their tuitions will not rise for a set number of years. Under the plan, which the system’s Board of Regents approved today, new students at four-year universities will pay the same rate for four years. Tuition for students who enter the system’s two-year colleges will be fixed at the same rate for three years, a span that the plan’s supporters said would help the many nontraditional students who enroll at those institutions.
University officials who advocated the program said that it would encourage students to graduate on time and would help families make financial plans. The program is one of several approaches that college officials have taken in recent years to make a higher education affordable to students yet fiscally responsible for the institutions (The Chronicle, July 24, 2003, December 17, 2004, and May 20, 2005).
