UNH ends tuition freeze
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The University System of New Hampshire will raise tuition next year, ending a tuition freeze.
The school says a lack of state funding is to blame. New Hampshire is last in the nation for per-capita funding of higher education.
This year UNH asked the state to restore funding to 2009 levels. The 2015 legislature voted to give UNH roughly 80% of the funding it asked for.
Opponents of a funding increase point out that UNH received a record amount of private donations last year.
Opponents also note that no other public university in the U.S. has frozen in-state tuition for four consecutive years. UNH froze tuition after the last state budget cycle, two years ago.
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