After Getting Nearly 40% Budget Increase, North Dakota Higher Education Still Raising Tuition Prices

• February 12, 2010

Over a year ago, and after getting a nearly 40% increase in their budget, the North Dakota Board of Higher Education threatened to raise tuition anyway. Now comes news that North Dakota taxpayers who might want to send their kids to one of the state’s four-year universities (or those folks who are already attending one of them) will be facing a 3.5% hike in tuition.

The State Board of Higher Education’s Finance Committee reaffirmed Wednesday an ear-lier plan to limit tuition increases at North Dakota’s universities and colleges.
In the 2010-2011 school year, four-year campuses may raise tuition as much as 3.5 percent and two-year campuses must keep tuition the same.

What I don’t understand is why this tuition increase is necessary. It seems as though no matter how much money North Dakota’s politicians ladle onto the higher education system in this state, the money all gets spent and the demands for more begin.
Not only have North Dakota taxpayers been ponying up for double-digit budget increases year after year, if they decide to actually make use of one of these universities they get nailed with tuition hikes along the way too.
If tuition continues to spiral ever upward despite heavy budget increase, then what exactly are the taxpayers subsidizing? Outside of run-away spending on mansions for university officials and general budget mismanagement?

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http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

The more money they get in state support the more they jack up tuition. I’d cut ‘em off. Give the money to the students and let them go where they want.
ec99

On the other hand, NoDakers WANT 11 campuses in a state with a population the size of Omaha, when they could survive on 3 or 4. Several of them are merely glorified high schools. The overhead of all of them is huge. Dump the little ones and the state’s appropriation woill go farther.
Brent

“I think that’s exactly right. Let’s stop funding the bureaucrats and the administrators and fund the students if we’re going to fund higher education.

At ND’s current rate of funding higher ed, we could give every graduating high school student in the state roughly $40,000 to put toward four years of college.

Wouldn’t that make more sense?”

And the university system would lobby to make it $50,000, then $60,000…
DINOBASHER

I’m pretty cool I’m just going to bash everyone on this site thinking I’m the smartest man in the world dino…
dchrist81

Arguably, government-run universities are NOT constitutionally required, at least not by the federal Constitution. San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez (1973) found that education is not a fundamental constitutional right. And since “education” appears nowhere in the Constitution, there’s little reason to believe we should be compelled to finance government-run universities.
ec99

Follow the money. UND builds a $17 million parking ramp, and plans to construct a $20 million indoor practice facility. Under Kupchella the bureaucracy was bloated with empty suits, all at 6-figure salaries. Both UND and NDSU built $1 million president houses. Both have gone D I. It all adds up over time.
ec99

Lamentably, there is not a snowball in hell chance of getting rid of campuses. They exist as economic impact for places like Devils Lake, Mayville, Wahpeton, and the like. If you look at their catalogues, you’ll see they really are high schools. The reason some where put into the ND Constitution was precisely because they knew that was the only way to keep them; they have no academic legitimacy. Given the demographics of high school graduates in ND, the state could get by with UND, NDSU, and Minot. All the others just suck up money.
http://sayanythingblog.com robport

I think that’s exactly right. Let’s stop funding the bureaucrats and the administrators and fund the students if we’re going to fund higher education.

At ND’s current rate of funding higher ed, we could give every graduating high school student in the state roughly $40,000 to put toward four years of college.

Wouldn’t that make more sense?
sayanything-4416

Hey folks, no one said your kids were guaranteed a cheap public education. If it weren’t for liberals there wouldn’t even BE public education.

Enjoy your tuition bills! See, I went to university back when people believed in the common good. It was very affordable. Now, not so much!

Tell the kids to enjoy that enormous loan payment when they get out making crap wages thanks to years of placating the people at the top!
sayanything-4642

each session there are whispers to shut a couple small ones…. thats as loud as you dare talk about it. we dont maintain or staff the smallest well enough. period. to me the question is simple; fund them or close them. otherwise youre doing a disservice to both tax payers and students. if the state walked away maybe the local towns would pay to keep them open.
sayanything-4416

Judging from the people here, it’s hard to believe anyone from ND actually got a college education.
sayanything-101

The greedy, lazy educrats would just jack up tuition $80,000.
sayanything-4416

The students can’t teach themselves, Einstein.

“G-DUH, let’s give every kid $40,000 to go to a building and stare at the walls.”
sayanything-4642

“What I donâ€™t understand is why this tuition increase is necessary. It seems as though no matter how much money North Dakotaâ€™s politicians ladle onto the higher education system in this state, the money all gets spent and the demands for more begin.”

give an inch……. what makes me even more mad is the customers (students)and employees (teachers and admins) still think we need to be doing MORE.
http://sayanythingblog.com robport

On the other hand, NoDakers WANT 11 campuses

Do they? Has anyone polled recently or pushed an effort to close some of them?

They’re constitutionally-required, so there’s a big hurdle to get over to close them. An initiated measure would require a lot of signatures, and in the measure process or the legislature you’ll be fighting a pitched battle against a well-funded higher education lobbying machine every step of the way.
sayanything-4416

Badlands liked your post because her family is getting raked across the coals paying for education.

TOUGH SH*T. You people don’t want to pay taxes and want the rich to keep getting their taxes decreased, so pay up. That or send your kids to private school and really find out howe expensive it gets.

LOL, I get a kick out of seeing you people rail against the hardships you created for your families by supporting conservatives!
sayanything-4642

section 12 page 24

section 13 page 25…..

http://www.legis.nd.gov/constitution/const.pdf
sayanything-6955

Every time I hear something, “anything”, to do with education I want to scream! Way too damn much money goes to it, and most of it goes to “bureaucratic” B.S. and “administrative” crap. Every year more and more money. Screw that!
http://sayanythingblog.com robport

And by the way, it’s pathetic that higher ed lobbies….with what amount to our tax dollars.
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