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President: U of I Tuition Increase Limits Options
URBANA, Ill. (AP) -- University of Illinois President Michael Hogan says a new policy aimed at limiting tuition increases to no more than the rate of inflation will leave the university still looking for money for pay raises and won't strengthen the university's financial situation.

Trustees earlier this year set the new policy. Hogan spoke Monday at a meeting of university trustees' audit and budget committee.

Tuition increased by 9.5 percent last year.

It isn't clear exactly how tuition will be set for next year. But if the increase trustees are expected to consider later this month matched 2010's inflation rate it would be about 1.6 percent. That would raise tuition to about $10,552 a year at, for example, the Urbana-Champaign campus.

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