May 9, 2002
Contact: Robert Lowery (509-963-1487/fax 509-963-2301/e-mail: loweryr@cwu.edu
ELLENSBURG, Wash. - At Central Washington University's May 10
public meeting of the board of trustees in Ellensburg, trustees will review
student tuition and fee levels for the 2002-03 academic year. The regular
meeting begins at 1 p.m. in Barge Hall 412.
Tuition and fee hikes, as authorized by the 2001 state legislature,
could rise by 13.9 percent for resident undergraduate students and 6
percent for all other student categories. The increases would bring
quarterly tuition to $1,148 for Central resident undergraduate students,
beginning fall term 2002, compared to $1,008 quarterly during 2001-02.
Resident graduate students will pay $1,713 quarterly, compared to $1,616
this year. Non-resident undergraduate tuition would increase to $3,802
from $3,587 this year. And non-resident graduate tuition would total
$5,220 next year, up from $4,924.
Central's governing board will also talk about three major money
issues that they will vote on next month:
The university's proposed operating budget for the 2002-03 fiscal
year totals $63,981,000, supported by state general funds, tuition revenue,
self-support, auxiliary, and student services and activities funding.
CWU's proposed $16,739,000 preliminary operating budget request for
the 2003-05 biennium includes five enhancement packages. The first package
would include 5 percent salary increases for faculty and staff. The second
request is for $909,783 for faculty and staff recruitment. The third
request, totaling nearly $12 million, would provide funding for up to 600
students above CWU's currently funded enrollment. The fourth package
totals $1 million for recruitment and retention of low income and first
generation students. The final package, of $1.6 million, would go for
funding work force and high demand programs.
Central's capital budget request for the 2003-05 biennium totals
$49,862,300. The university's top priority project is $14 million for
construction of phase two of the new CWU music education facility. Other
large proposed projects are $9.58 million for utility upgrades and $4.9
million for renovation of Dean Hall.
In addition, the university is seeking $12.6 million in
multi-institution capital funding: $10 million for construction of a CWU
Des Moines Center facility, $1.5 million to design a facility for the CWU
Wenatchee Center and $1.1 million for similar work on the CWU Moses Lake
Center.
After their formal adoption in June, Central's operating and
capital biennial budget requests will be refined and transmitted to the
governor's office by the end of August, for Gov. Gary Locke's
consideration. The governor is expected to release his biennial budget
proposals in December, for action by the 2003 state legislature.
At their meeting, trustees will consider motions to increase the
mandatory student health and counseling fee by $15 per academic quarter,
effective fall quarter 2002, and $10 per summer quarter, effective summer
quarter 2003; to increase by more than $400,000 the money available for
tuition and fee waivers; and for approval of a two-year revenue and
expenditure plan for the University Store.
Before the Friday public meeting, board members will meet with
President Jerilyn S. McIntyre and Ann Anderson, CWU director of government
relations, at 8 a.m.; and meet as a committee of the whole at 9 a.m.
For more information about the trustees meeting, or for persons of
disability to arrange for reasonable accommodation, call (509) 963-2111, or
(for the hearing impaired) TDD (509) 963-3323.
