Thursday, January 28, 1999
NKU tuition up 5.2% next year
Two academic centers approved
BY ANDREA TORTORA
The Cincinnati Enquirer
HIGHLAND HEIGHTS — Northern Kentucky University undergraduates will see a tuition increase of 5.2 percent and two new academic centers in the 1999-2000 school year.
The board of regents approved the tuition hike and proposals for the Center for Integrative Natural Science and Mathematics and the Environmental Resource Management Center on Wednesday.
Undergraduate tuition for full-time Kentucky residents will increase $50, from $960 to $1,010 per semester. Graduate tuition will rise 4.7 percent or $50, from $1,060 to $1,110.
Tuition at the Salmon P. Chase College of Law will increase 9.2 percent or $235, going from $2,545 to $2,780.
Percentage increases are the same for out-of-state students. Actual dollar increases per semester are $100 for undergraduates, bringing tuition to $3,030. Graduate students will also see a $100 increase, to $3,330. And law students will be hit with a $615 increase that will make tuition $7,465.
Tuition rates are established by the Council on Postsecondary Education during its biennial budget process. The tuition figures do not include incidental fees.
The university also made minor increases in general fees, for everything from housing to late fees at the library.
“Fees are a necessary evil,” Regent Robert Zapp said.
The Environmental Resource Management Center is an idea that started with the faculty and will provide support for the region in environmental planning, President James Votruba said.
Originating in the biology department, the center will offer technical and regulatory partnerships with Tristate businesses and government.
The goal is to help preserve the environment and plan for its future use. Ideas include protecting the region's rivers and monitoring residential and commercial development.
Grants, contracts, publications, forums and research and education programs will be a part of the center's objectives.
Lee Otte, a 1974 NKU graduate and environmental contractor, will be the center's director. Mr. Otte said he has degrees in biology and geology.
“Our main emphasis will be to coordinate all these efforts through the university, to make sure they get done,” Mr. Otte said.
The NKU Foundation is giving $100,000 to get the center started. It is to be self-supporting within two years.
The Center for Integrative Natural Science and Mathematics is the academic program that will partner with NKU's new $38 million science center, once that building is completed in 2001.
The center will work with students and teachers starting in kindergarten in computers, math and the sciences.
No degrees will be offered through the center, but programs will affect every undergraduate through a two-semester integrative science sequence.
The university will spend $3.9 million to fund the center for the first three years and $2.8 million to fund the center's fourth and fifth years.
“The interdisciplinary nature of this reflects the future,” Mr. Votruba said. “And it builds on the science building.”
NKU expects the Council on Postsecondary Education to approve the science and math center in March.
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