BISMARCK - The House today voted 59-34 in favor of amendments to the higher education spending bill that will result in tuition increases and several cuts to higher education.
The House will vote on the entire bill, which is House Bill 1003, on Thurs-day.
In total, the amendments to the bill remove nearly $35 million from what the governor recommended for higher education.
The cuts include:
- Removing $6.6 million intended to limit tuition increases, resulting in tuition increases of up to 4.1 percent. Gov. Jack Dalrymple proposed a tuition freeze for two-year schools and a cap on tui-tion increases of 2.5 per-cent for universities.
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- Removing $10 million in equity funding. NDSU would have received the largest chunk of that fund-ing at nearly $4.7 million.
- Removing $5 million that Dalrymple proposed for performance funding that would be allocated based on how campuses perform on certain meas-ures, such as students graduating on time.
- Removing $8 million for the Valley City State University Rhoades Science Center, which the state Board of Higher Education made its No. 2 priority.
- Removing $8.8 million for a library at Dickinson State University that was included in Dalrymple's budget.
