Caught by surprise when trustees raised tuition 6 percent on Monday, numbers crunchers at the University of Cincinnati did not have new figures ready.

        They anticipated one 2 percent raise rather than a 3 percent increase in January and another 3 percent bump in March.

        Tuesday, they released the new totals for tuition and mandatory fees for UC's colleges and campuses.

        For full-time Ohio undergrads, there are four different rates when winter quarter begins Jan. 3:

        • Main campus, $1,997.

        • University College, $1,607.

        • Clermont College, $1,605.

        • Raymond Walters College, $1,226.

        Graduate students will pay $2,340 a quarter; medical students, $5,181.

        Law students are on a semester schedule. They will pay $4,948 a semester when spring term starts. That represents the full 6 percent increase.

        For resident full-time undergrads, there will be four rates again when the second increase goes into effect on March 25 for spring quarter:

        • Main campus, $2,055.

        • University College, $1,653.

        • Clermont College, $1,096.

        • Raymond Walters College, $1,262.

        Graduate students will pay $2,408 and medical students $5,336.

        UC says it raised tuition because the state cut its funding and tuition could rise again in the 2002-03 academic year if the state again cuts higher education support, as expected.

        UC adopted the tuition raises after Trustee Phillip Cox said it was no time to “nickel and dime” students when the administration knew it would have to come back for more money.

        Trustees imposed the higher rates in two steps after Trustee Alicia M. Gardner, who represents graduate students, said the whole increase could be difficult to come up with by January.

        President Joseph M. Steger said that despite other cost-containment efforts, anything less than 5 percent would have assured layoffs.

        The increase might be too late for some employees.

        Spokesman Greg Hand said UC's human resources staff is getting so many queries about layoffs that it is going to offer how-to workshops.

        He said faculty furloughs were unlikely but nonfaculty in academic programs might be at risk. UC has 1,988 full-time faculty and more than 1,400 part-time/adjunct faculty.

        UC has 22,617 full-time students and 10,468 part-time students in its undergraduate, graduate and professional (law and medicine) colleges.

        In a letter to Gov. Bob Taft, Dr. Steger said additional tuition “will cover only 9 percent of the total budget reduction levied by the state, with the remaining 91 percent being absorbed through other university actions.”

        Dr. Steger already has imposed a partial hiring freeze, cut 2 percent from every department's spending and ordered other reductions.

        He urged legislators and Mr. Taft “to use great caution with consideration to even further cuts to higher education. It is an issue of competitiveness for all of our institutions and, by extension, for the entire state.”

        During the past 10 months, Ohio first took away $8 million. UC raised tuition 8 percent and fees 1 percent for September. Mr. Taft then hit UC for $11.2 million, triggering the latest tuition increase.

        All of this reflects state policy of shifting the cost of public higher education from taxpayers to students.

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