Board to hold public hearing on proposed tuition, fees on Wednesday
May 26, 2015
The Board of Trustees will conduct a public hearing Wednesday (May 27) on proposed tuition and fees to be paid by students attending any of the University's campuses during the 2015-16 and 2016-17 academic years.
Under the proposal, over the 2015-16 and 2016-17 academic years, tuition and fees at the West Lafayette campus will remain the same for resident, nonresident and international students. Tuition at Purdue’s regional campuses will follow the Indiana Commission for Higher Education’s recommended increase of up to 1.65 percent for the 2015-16 academic year, except at Purdue North Central. Tuition at the Westville, Indiana, campus will increase only 0.4 percent in order to align its tuition with Purdue Calumet in anticipation of the formation of Purdue Northwest. Purdue regional campuses (Purdue Northwest and Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne) will increase tuition 1.65 percent during the 2016-17 academic year.
The public hearing will begin at 4 p.m. EDT on Wednesday (May 27) in Stewart Center, Room 326, as a special meeting of the board’s Executive Committee. The Executive Committee will act on behalf of the board and will vote on the fee proposal and the 2015-16 system-wide conceptual budget.
The public will have a chance to comment during the meeting, and a videoconference connection also will allow public input from Purdue's regional campuses.
Those wishing to speak at the hearing should notify the Office of the Board of Trustees in advance at 765-494-9710 or trustees@purdue.edu. A summary of the fee proposal is available online. Each speaker will be scheduled in the order they register and allotted three minutes to make comments at the hearing, which will last 30 minutes.
Written comments also may be submitted via email or sent to the Office of the Board of Trustees, Hovde Hall, 610 Purdue Mall, West Lafayette, IN 47907.
Anyone wanting to offer testimony at one of the statewide campuses should contact that campus for directions to the videoconference location. Those locations and phone numbers are:
* Purdue Calumet: Room with a View, SULB 150-D, 219-989-2040.
* Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne: Kettler Hall, Room 178, 260-481-6100.
* Purdue North Central: Library-Student-Faculty Building, Room 002, 219-785-5511.
