June 2, 2010. A 15% deferred pay plan brings FAU president’s recently negotiated salary to almost $400K–excluding bonus (This fact is not included in the story below. -Ed.)
Proposed FAU budget would increase both tuition, fees 15 percent
Palm Beach Post
By Samantha Frank
May 26, 2010
The average in-state undergraduate student at Florida Atlantic University can expect an increase of about $424 in tuition and $184 in other fees for the 2010-2011 school year if the board of trustees approves the proposed increases next month.
A student taking 15 credit hours per semester would pay a total of about $3,254 for tuition and $1,540 in other fees for the school year, not including a $64.90 transportation access fee per semester, which all students must pay.
That’s a 15 percent increase in tuition, which is the same percentage increase students saw last year and the most a public university can increase tuition under state law.
But unlike past years, FAU is proposing a 15 percent increase in many student fees. The governor recently signed a bill that allows for a one-time-only increase in student service fees, health fees and athletic fees by 15 percent. In the past, these fees could only be increased up to 5 percent annually.
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