The Iowa Board of Regents is freezing tuition for in-state undergraduate students for the third year in a row.
Regents President Bruce Rastetter says it’s the first time in state history resident tuition has remained the same over this long a period.
Rastetter deflects concerns the freeze will mean much higher tuition in the future.
“The critical component to avoid that is the universities becoming more efficient, which they are, and then legislative state support,” he says.
Rastetter says cost savings at the state universities will allow them to pour more resources toward students rather than asking them to pay more.
The freeze depends on additional funding to the universities from the Legislature.