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Trustees on Friday also approved more than 200 other fees that fall outside of the tuition cap becausethey don’t applyg to every student, according to a release. The four-yea school in Athens wants to issuse $28.3 million in bonds to replacer its Student Information responsiblefor registration, financiakl aid, housing and several systemsz that make the university function, as well as general information technologh upgrades to increase speed and accesa along with security. The school went through several costlty data breaches starting abour fiveyears ago. Officials proposre paying half the debt service out of the general fund and supportinb half withthe fee, which is not to exceed $25.
It woul d be applied this fall if approved bythe . Many of the othetr fee increases cover specific course but some affectlarger groups. Among them: $26 added to the per-credit hour rate, for a totap of $426, for the master’s in financiao economics program offered at the Pickerington campus inCentrap Ohio. • 7 percent increase to student housing and 3 perceny fordining plans. • 5 percent increase in instructional fees and nonresident surcharge for the Collegs ofOsteopathic Medicine. Ohio University rankx fourth among the 13 public universities forannuao tuition, $8,907 for Ohio residents attendingh full-time at the main campus, wherr enrollment is 19,000.
The school has five regiona campuses. It’s followed by at Craig Cornell, vice provost for enrollmen management, told trustees that the state tuitiohn freeze, federal tax credits and lowered interesgt on studentloan programs, and the school’se own scholarship program promote affordability, the releaswe said. Still, he said schools Ohio University competes with are spendinv moreon scholarships, so he advocated increasing scholarshipxs paid from the genera fund, such as by keying them to a percentage of tuitioj and fees. To meet a shortfall for the upcominacademic year, the school has cut jobs, offered retiremenf incentives and entered purchasing collectives.