Your Tuition and Fees will...

• Provide $1.8 million in need-based financial assistance to students in FY 2007 and an additional $1.2 million in FY 2008.
• Provide an additional $1.6 million for retention and timely graduation initiatives in FY 2007 and increment the amount by an additional $300,000 in FY 2008.
• Further develop and enhance graduate programs (using revenue generated from the graduate differential tuition increase).
• Hire an additional 43 faculty members ($2,355,000) in FY 2007 and an additional 45 faculty members ($2,475,000) in FY 2008. This will enable the University to maintain reasonable class sizes and a timely graduation imperative, while addressing the adjustment in the faculty workload needed to promote research activity. These additional faculty are necessary in order to effect scheduling and instructional adjustments tied to timely graduation initiatives.