State Tuition Freeze Could Hurt Tech
By: Amy Montalvo
Updated: April 21, 2009
State lawmakers are debating a bill that would freeze tuition at all texas universities for at least 2 years, but Texas Tech says it should be exempt. Tech was the only school in the nation to freeze its tuition and fees for the 2008-2009 school year, and Chancellor Kent Hance says the university just can't afford another freeze so soon.
He says the university should be rewarded with an exemption for freezing tuition before the legislature actually requires it, "We should not be penalized for having been out front, doing something that the other schools were not doing. If the state puts a cap on what we can do this year, and we can't make any increases, but they give us some additional money, to make up any of the difference from having two years in a row that we did not have any increases, then that would be fine with us."
