March 5, 2004

States Move to Limit Increases in Tuition

By ALYSON KLEIN

Colleges say raising fees is the only way they can make up for budget cuts

With tuition increases at public colleges reaching record highs, state lawmakers nationwide are feeling pressure from constituents to curtail rising costs by imposing caps on tuition increases or adopting other means of making increases predictable.

In many cases, the proposals pit legislators against public-college officials who say tuition is their only means of compensating for cuts in state aid that

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