Final Kansas budget locks in university tuition freeze, but fee hikes still on the table

Gov. Laura Kelly says the $37.5 million budget hike is sufficient to hold line on student tuition at public universities.

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State News

June 1, 2022 - 2:56 PM

LAWRENCE — Kansas public university students uneasy about the cost of their education dodged a tuition hike this fall, but won’t know until mid-June whether they’ll be dinged with higher campus fees.

Maneuvering by the Legislature and governor on tuition added complexity to the task of pulling together university budgets for the fiscal year starting July 1. The Kansas Board of Regents are preparing to vote on what campus fees get elevated at the system’s six universities.

The $37.5 million allocated by the Legislature to universities governed by the Board of…

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