Colleges may have to wait to enact tuition variances
Engineering and chemistry majors probably won’t have to pay higher tuition than history and English majors at the state’s colleges and universities, at least through next school year.
A year after giving schools the authority to charge higher tuition for more expensive degrees, state lawmakers now are poised to tell them to hold off.
Lawmakers are worried about potential insolvency in the state’s system of prepaid tuition credits – with good reason, according to an analysis by State Actuary Matt Smith.