As many legislatures finalize their budgets for the coming fiscal year, schools are again seeing big cuts and students are again faced with rising tuition and fees. 

In Oklahoma, the state’s universities are facing a 10 percent cut.  The state’s higher education chancellor, Glen Johnson, says this size of a cut will force universities to eliminate hundreds of faculty positions, eliminate 400 classes and cut financial aid. 

While the situation is less bleak in Maryland, students are now facing the first tuition increase in five years.  Last week, the Board of Regents for the University of Maryland system voted to increase tuition for undergraduates by 3 percent while hiking tuition for graduate students by 6.2 percent.

Finally, in Nevada, the Board of Regents voted to increase tuition by 9.5 percent at community colleges and by 9.8 percent at the University of Nevada campuses.  Over the past five years, tuition for in-state students has increased by roughly 40 percent. 

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