EMU students will pay 13.5 percent more in tuition and fees, with 4 percent of total dedicated to classroom, laboratory improvements

Eastern Michigan University students will pay 13.5 percent more in tuition and fees this fall, with 4 percent of that total earmarked for much-needed improvements to classrooms, laboratory facilities and academic facilities.

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"We are very determined to improve those key classroom buildings, Pray-Harrold and Mark Jefferson. Those projects came up at the top of our list," said Board of Regents Chairwoman Karen Valvo.

The Regents, at a special meeting Aug. 2, voted 7-0 in favor of a 9.5 percent tuition increase (required to balance the University's non-capital operating budgets) and an additional 4 percent to pay for a bond issue, with the proceeds dedicated to improving classrooms, laboratories and institutional facilities.

The state legislature provided no capital funding for EMU last year. Pray-Harrold has been the University's top capital improvement project since 1999. Regents took it upon themselves to begin handling campus infrastructure needs.

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