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By Savannah Trantham
COLLEGE STATION, Texas Tuition and fees for Tarleton students on the Stephenville campus are
expected to rise a total average of $158 if a proposal of a Guaranteed Tuition and Fee plan from President
Dominic Dottavio is approved by the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents.
The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents Committee on Finance met April 9 with each A&M
System CEO to discuss the programmatic and financial direction of their institution for Fiscal Year 2015.
Dottavio, Provost and Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs Karen Murray, and Vice President for
Finance and Administration Tye Minckler were all in attendance to represent Tarleton State University.
The guaranteed tuition and fee plan means that freshmen will pay the proposed rates by college/program
per semester with no increases for the four years after they start, Minckler explained in a University
Budget Update. For incoming freshmen, tuition and fees would average a $219 increase.
As of next fall sophomores will pay the proposed rate with an average increase of $178, with no increases
over the next three years. Juniors will pay an average tuition increase of $138 but for only the next two
years. Seniors will have an average increase of $99.
Where each new and old fee had to be separated out, the fee collapse will combine 18 individual existing
fees to make up one flat rate fee.
Now people are recognizing its become so cumbersome. If you can generally put them gether as part of
tuition rather than all these separate fee schedules, you should try to do that, Dottavio said.
Fees that will be combined into the new University Services Fees include lab, student service, off campus
program, yearbook, ag facilities, writing intensive course, first year experience, graduation, testing,
academic support and advising, computer access, distance education, instructional equipment, library
access, student endowment, ID system, international education, and records.
The University Services Fee will have a base rate of $60.85 per student per semester credit hour, and will
be included in the Guaranteed Tuition and Fee plan.
Fees that are not included in the guaranteed tuition fee because they are location specific to the
Stephenville campus include the intercollegiate athletic, health, recreational sports, student center complex
and parking fees. The online program fee will be location specific to the Distance Ed Degree Program.
All the information and statistics presented to the Board were requested. The goal of the meeting was to
explain to the system What we were collapsing and then what those charts were going look like if you put
the guaranteed tuition plan in place, Dottavio said.
Dottavios presentation covered trends in 2013 demographics, four year graduation rates, persistence
rates, academic program development, state appropriations, general and tuition and fees percentage
revenue comparison, fee collapse-university service fees, location specific fees, guaranteed tuition and
fees at the freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior level, miscellaneous fees that are not included in the
guarantee, graduate tuition differential, Stephenville parking fee, FY 2015 revenue budget graph, new
goals and objectives, FY 2015 salary plan, (FTE)full time equivalent request, auxiliary functions, projects
under construction, FY 2015 priority projects, and an audit update.
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The fee collapse, guaranteed tuition, and parking slides and numbers, which we showed at the student
fee hearingthese are the things that they wanted to see. Dottavio told Texan News.
At the next Texas A&M System Board of Regents Meeting, they will make a decision on whether or not
they approve the schedules presented.
I expect they will because theyre the ones that directed us to put in place the guaranteed tuition plans,
Dottavio said.

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