October 5, 2007

Many Public Colleges Have Raised Tuition Despite Increases in State Support

By LAUREN SMITH

Public colleges often blame their tuition increases on state lawmakers who the colleges say have not given them enough extra money to keep up with rising costs. But this year, many states' public colleges received sizable infusions of public money and then went ahead and raised tuition anyway.

In nearly half of the states, both state appropriations for higher education and public-college tuitions rose by 5 percent or more, substantially faster than inflation. In Colorado, for example,

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