Herbert discusses possible tuition increase for next year

In the past year, IU tuition has increased 4 percent. As the years go on and the overall increase of tuition and fees continues to rise, students are left wondering what more they are getting out of their costly education year to year as its price tag continues to grow.\nThe Bloomington Faculty Council met in the Frangipani Room at the Indiana Memorial Union Tuesday to discuss current issues the IU campus is facing with IU President Adam W. Herbert \nHerbert said there is a definite possibility another 4 percent increase in fees and tuition will be instituted for the 2005-06 school year. Herbert said the increases would be individual -- tuition would increase by 4 percent and student fees would also increase by 4 percent, but the total cost of this increase would be $30 to $31 per individual student. \n"The increase in student fees would include the mandatory student fees that will all be lumped together," Herbert said.\nTyson Chastain, president of IU Student Association, said it is very important that students know for what they are paying and why when it comes to the increase of education costs.\nFor students like junior Becca Miller, even the slightest increase in tuition and student fees can be hazardous to a checkbook.\n"The way the price of tuition is for out of state students is already hard enough," Miller said. "Increasing tuition is only going to make it harder."\nMiller said she hasn't been able to register for classes yet because she currently has a hold on her account for tuition payments. Increasing tuition and student fees is just an added burden on students such as Miller.\nChastain and his committee plan to conduct an extensive review of all the increase of fee requests.\nHerbert said Chastain's review will help to decide the final verdict for the cost rising tuition and student fees. He said students will have the opportunity for conversations with the issues at hand. \n"I wouldn't be going to this school and paying all this money if I didn't want to accept the challenge," Miller said. "But if I can't afford to go to school here, in the end, it just doesn't matter how good the school is."\n-- Contact staff writer Kristin Huett at khuett@indiana.edu.