Marquette tuition increase imminent
Tuition will increase next year by approximately $1,400, bringing the annual total to $32,810, announced University Vice President of Finance Chuck Lamb in a presentation to the Academic Senate on Monday,
While the student activity fee will remain unchanged, room and board rates will increase 3 percent. Students will also be paying $12 more for the annual fee for Student Health Services, bringing that total to $284.
Lamb said this increase is consistent with past years’ tuition increases, and matches last year’s increase. He added that despite the tuition increases, Marquette still ranks low in terms of tuition when compared to other Jesuit institutions.
“Marquette has always been conservative with its budget,” Lamb said. “We always approach the board with a balanced budget.”
According to Christopher Stolarski, a senior communication specialist in Marquette’s Office of Marketing and Communication, despite annual cost increases, “they’ve done a really good job of keeping it at that rate (of $1,400 annually).”
Increasing costs of running the university, from maintenance and insurance costs to salary increases, contribute to Marquette’s yearly rise in tuition. Lamb said this is an unavoidable part of the University’s budget and that unexpected situations, such as the increase in the number of freshmen students this year, didn’t contribute to the need to raise tuition.
Stolarski said the new tuition rates were part of a “long and arduous budget process” undertaken by the new University Finance and Review Committee, which will replace the former University Budget Committee.
Lamb said the change made to the committee takes more of a “master planning” and holistic approach to the budget. The committee also hopes to be more open, accessible, and transparent for students.
“It’s about more than the budget — it’s about strategic planning,” Lamb said. “The process will be much more transparent — minutes will be available online and students from the graduate and undergraduate level sit on the committee.
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Nonetheless, she had to cut back from being a full-time student to part-time this year because she could no longer afford the rising cost of college. "The amount I have to work was a burden on being able to go full-time anyway," she said.
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The Impact of Healthcare Reforms to Student Health Insurance ...
That is because their student health insurance plans or their inclusion in the coverage of their parents also automatically ends after college graduation. So what happens when it takes some time before a student finds a job? It is not advisable to go on without any health coverage even for a short while. The problem is addressed by the reformed healthcare bill, which would take effect on 2014.
One of the most raved about provisions of the popular healthcare reform law is what is called the Affordable Care Act, which directly has implications on student health insurance plans. Under the new law provision, college students would finally be allowed to remain within their parents’ healthcare coverage plans up until they turn 26 years old. The provision is something new because students under the previous law usually lose insurance coverage immediately after graduation from college.
Thus, before the health reform bill, college students face a variety of unlikely circumstances. They graduate without any definite job, they graduate with a job that would not start for several months, or worse, they graduate with a job that is not offering any healthcare benefit. Thus, through the reformed healthcare bill, students need not worry about getting uninsured after the day of graduation.
The Affordable Care Act would initially take its initial effect on September 2010. To date, up to 65 health insurers have already agreed to offer and provide benefits through student health insurance plans immediately. However, some employers have agreed to only comply with the provision starting January 2011. Such employers are still reviewing their coverage offers for fresh grads. By 2014, the Act along with the entire reform bill should have been implemented fully.
So What To Do For The Meantime?
There are non-profit organizations and insurers that are providing minimal, temporary, and short-term student health insurance plans to fresh and young graduates who are about to experience a coverage gap after graduation from college. That means any new grad who is stuck with no insurance until September or who has assumed a job with benefits lag could possibly get a temporary healthcare coverage.