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Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Miami maintains tuition freeze through May
Miami University officials are proposing to keep tuition frozen for Ohio students through the 2009-2010 fall and spring semesters, but that Miami increase tuition by 3.5 percent for the 2010 summer sessions.
University officials announced their proposal to the board of trustees on Wednesday, Sept. 2.
Miami trustees announced at their last meeting in June that the university would keep tuition frozen for the 2009-2010 academic year.
That decision was reached before the state legislature passed a biennial budget that modestly increases higher education funding this fiscal year and significantly reduces it the following fiscal year, according to university officials.
To compensate for overall reduced public funding, state legislators allowed for a 3.5 percent in-state tuition increase this year and next.
Miami is facing significant budget cuts this year, but decided to delay an increase until summer because of the earlier announcement about a year-long tuition freeze at the school, according to David Creamer, vice president for finance and business services.
“We believe that a tuition increase prior to next summer would impose an unanticipated financial hardship on Ohio students and their families,” Creamer said.
University officials will evaluate the possibility of increasing tuition in fall 2010. A decision will be made by spring, officials said.
Miami’s board of trustees meets next on Sept. 18.
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Swine flu suspected at Cedarville University
It’s not often my health beat and my higher education beat intertwine.
Today however, is an exception.
Cedarville University is the first of this area’s universities to report a cluster of what is assumed to be swine flu.
A little less than 60 students have reported influenza-like illness to either the university’s medical office or at the local hospital, Cedarville’s spokesman John Davis told me this morning.
Two of the students have confirmed cases of influenza A, which is the umbrella diagnosis for both the seasonal and swine flu. However, it’s my understanding that the seasonal flu has not arrived here yet, which means that any flu cases are assumed to be swine flu, according to my conversation earlier this week with Christina Conover, Clark County’s director of nursing.
Health districts aren’t testing individuals for swine flu, so officials are instructed to treat the illness as if it is influenza.
Several students were treated a a local hospital, none were admitted, Davis said. The rest are taking between 24 hours and five or six days to recover with treatment, he said.
It’s obviously good news that no student has experienced complications.
It might not be such good news that the virus can spread so quickly (60 students in less than two weeks).
Fortunately for younger students, the Clark County Combined Health District has yet to receive any reports of increased influenza-type illnesses in the county’s K-12 schools.
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