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Kent State Trustees Take The First Step Toward Raising and Freezing Tuition and Fees

Spokesman Eric Mansfield says the university will likely set the percentage early next year.
Tim Rudell
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Spokesman Eric Mansfield says the university will likely set the percentage early next year.

Kent State University trustees have approved the tuition increase and freeze in principle. They also took a look at their meeting Wednesday at a billion dollar, 10-year campus upgrade and plan to revisit both issues in March.  

Spokesman Eric Mansfield says the university will likely set the percentage early next year.
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Spokesman Eric Mansfield says the university will likely set the percentage early next year.

The tuition increase for in-state, undergraduate students will likely start in fall 2018.  How much will be decided later.

Eric Mansfield is Kent State’s executive director of media relations.

“This summer the governor gave state universities the ability to raise tuition up to 6 percent, if the tuition and fees were then locked in for a period of four years. This is similar to what several other state universities have already adopted.”

University of Akron, Youngstown State and Cleveland State all have enacted similar tuition plans.

The master campus plan, the school’s first since 1996, calls for a comprehensive makeover of the Kent campus and creation of a new main entrance to the university on Main Street.

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Tim Rudell
Tim Rudell has worked in broadcasting and news since his student days at Kent State in the late 1960s and early 1970s (when he earned extra money as a stringer for UPI). He began full time in radio news in 1972 in his home town of Canton, OH.