February 21, 2003

North Carolina and Texas Try to Buck Trend of Tuition Increases

By WILL POTTER

In a year when most public colleges raised tuition significantly -- and some topped off the new rates with midyear increases -- two university systems are talking about doing exactly the opposite for students this fall.

The University of Texas System's Board of Regents last month proposed free tuition for all Texas students from families with annual incomes below the state's median. And the Board of Governors of the University of North Carolina system has asked the

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