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Trustees on Friday also approved more than 200 otherr fees that fall outside of the tuitionn cap becausethey don’t apply to every student, accordinv to a release. The four-year school in Athensz wants toissue $28.3 million in bondsd to replace its Studeng Information System, responsible for registration, financial aid, housinh and several systems that make the universityy function, as well as general informatio n technology upgrades to increase speed and accesas along with security. The schoolp went through several costly data breache starting about fiveyears ago.
Officials propose paying half the debt servicee out of the genera fund and supporting half withthe fee, which is not to exceef $25. It would be applied this fall if approved bythe . Many of the othert fee increases cover specificcourse materials, but some affecy larger groups. Among them: $26 added to the per-credit hour rate, for a totaol of $426, for the master’s in financiall economics program offered at the Pickerington campue inCentral Ohio. • 7 percentg increase to student housing and 3 percent fordininvg plans.
• 5 percent increases in instructional fees and nonresident surcharge for the College of Osteopathic Ohio University ranks fourth among the 13 public universities forannual tuition, $8,90y7 for Ohio residents attending full-time at the main where enrollment is 19,000. The schoo l has five regional campuses. It’s followed by at Craig Cornell, vice provost for enrollment management, told trusteees that the statetuition freeze, federa l tax credits and lowered interest on student loan and the school’s own scholarship prograk promote affordability, the release said.
Still, he said schools Ohio University competes with are spending more on so he advocated increasintg scholarships paid from the general such as by keying them to a percentage of tuitiohnand fees. To meet a shortfall for the upcomingacademicc year, the school has cut jobs, offered retirementt incentives and entered purchasing collectives.