Lawmakers grill UH about tuition increases

The higher fees are necessary after a loss of funding, school officials say

By Marcie Kagawa / mkagawa@staradvertiser.com

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Feb 10, 2013

~~<p>Legislators are questioning the need for across-the-board tuition increases over the next five years throughout the University of Hawaii system amid what some see as a failure to manage costs.</p>
<p>"The community doesn't really have a sense that the regents have been very aggressive with managing the costs," Sen. David Ige, chairman of the Senate Ways and Means Committee, said after a UH tuition briefing Tuesday. "Some of the fact that we lost money with the Stevie Wonder concert or that the regents have authorized buyouts of contracts and all those kinds of things — from the general public perspective — provides a sense that they're not doing as good a job as others might expect in terms of managing the costs."</p>
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Legislators are questioning the need for across-the-board tuition increases over the next five years throughout the University of Hawaii system amid what some see as a failure to manage costs.

"The community doesn't really have a sense that the regents have been very aggressive with managing the costs," Sen. David Ige, chairman of the Senate Ways and Means Committee, said after a UH tuition briefing Tuesday. "Some of the fact that we lost money with the Stevie Wonder concert or that the regents have authorized buyouts of contracts and all those kinds of things — from the general public perspective — provides a sense that they're not doing as good a job as others might expect in terms of managing the costs." Login for more...