North Dakota State Board of Higher Education Bragging That They Didn’t Raise Tuition That Much

Ken McCracken • October 25, 2009

State higher education officials say tuition and fees at North Dakota’s public colleges and universities went up at a rate much less than the national average.
They cite a new report from The College Board saying the average published price of in-state tuition and fees at public four-year colleges increased 6.5 percent for the 2009-10 academic year and 7.3 percent at public two-year colleges.
University officials say that in North Dakota, four-year university in-state tuition and fees increased 3.5 percent, and two-year tuition and fees increased 0.8 percent.

These clowns are trotting out this snapshot to make themselves look like they’ve been financially responsible. They haven’t.
They’ve been nothing but wild allowing for tuition increases. Since I have the UND tuition for most of the decade I’ll use that to illustrate what’s going on in the state.
In the academic year 2000 to 2001 tuition at UND was $3088 for a semester. Currently it’s $6727. That means the State Board of Higher Education (clowns) has overseen a 118% rise in tuition. The inflation rate over the same period was 25%. That means the State Board of Higher Education gouged our young people by raising the real price of their service by about 90%.
The State Legislature foolishly gave the Higher Education system a 53% increase in general fund support in the last two bienniums. During that same period UND has raised their tuition by 16 percent. Inflation during that time was more like 4%.
I don’t think other states were able to increase their state support of higher education in the last year like we were able to. There was no excuse to increase tuition a penny let alone the three and an half that they did. Inflation was non existent last year.
So even with a massive increase in state funding the greedy Board of Higher Education has increased tuition four times the rate of inflation. These guys should just drop the act that they’re responsible stewards of the higher education system.
The State Board of Higher Education is appointed by the Governor by the way. Ultimately he’s the one responsible for run away spending and other misdeeds on the college campuses.

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http://Array jimmypop

im not one bit concerned with what users of public services pay. regardless of what it is, we taxpayers pay most of their cost. more important, have NO problem with school going up to the moon if the kids come out THAT MUCH better in the end. i am not convinced this is the case. in fargo i think all we have shiny new buildings, more infrastructure to maintain, failed edc ideas, a larger campus, a 1-7 football coach getting paid $300K and 90% of the same teachers we had before…… thats all fine, but i am not sure why things cost more now when quality has gone nowhere.
http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

It seems to me the only justification for public spending on higher
education is to benefit the students.

Clearly the Hoeven State Board of Higher Education (clowns) disagree and
think it’s all about benefiting the faculty and staffs.
http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

That makes too much sense Rob.
jimmypop

None of you wants to pay taxes but you want the PUBLIC COLLEGES to be dirt cheap or preferablt, FREE!

dinorob, its stuff like this that make it obvious you are actually rob. listen rob, people post here without ‘dino’. let it go.

oh yes… here is the first line in my post….. “im not one bit concerned with what users of public services pay.”
sayanything-4416

HAHAHA! Look at the conservatives whining about how much college costs! Public college at that!

None of you wants to pay taxes but you want the PUBLIC COLLEGES to be dirt cheap or preferablt, FREE!

I mean, the faculty and staff should work for FREE so your stupid kids can get a great deal on tuition! LOL

Great idea on privatizing them. Then they can cost $40,000 a year instead of $8,000.

Vouchers don’t work, are unfair and simplistic. Sort of like all con solutions like tort reform and “buying insurance across state lines” will solve the health care problem.
sayanything-4416

Then send your kids to a private university. Easy.
http://sayanythingblog.com robport

I agree. I think we need to cut the colleges loose. Let them be private, and if we want to fund higher education fund the students by giving them vouchers.
sayanything-101

The greed of the lazy education cabal knows no bounds!
sayanything-7743

For higher education, why should tutition increases exceed the rate of inflation?

To check the out of control government run higher education system, maybe what we need is a “public option” to control excess spending, excessive professor’s pay, etc. In health care, if a public option will check “greedy” insurance company and exccessive medical professionals pay and thereby bringing down costs, why won’t it work in higher education? I beleive the so-called public option to control costs for health insurance will be as sucessful as the failed governemnt run schools.

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