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University of Hawaii officials will begin soliciting feedback next month on their plan to increase annual tuition by 35 percent over the next five years for a resident undergraduate student at the flagship Manoa campus.

Under a proposal presented Thursday at a UH regents meeting on Maui, tuition for a typical UH-Manoa student taking 12 credits would increase to $8,664 next year from the current $8,400. Nonresident tuition would increase by $1,680, to $24,912 a year from $23,232.

By the end of five years of increases, a Manoa undergraduate student would pay $11,376 in resident tuition for the 2016-17 school year. Nonresidents would pay $32,904, a 42 percent increase.

Regents will consider a vote on the tuition proposal this fall following a statewide series of 11 tuition hearings from Sept. 16 through Oct. 21.

UH officials said their overall tuition proposal for the entire 10-campus system would cost less for UH students — in most cases — than the projected national averages for their student counterparts across the country.

While Manoa undergraduates would pay an estimated $12,076 for tuition and fees in 2016-17, the national average is projected to be $13,531, UH officials said in the proposal presented to regents at UH Maui College.

Resident tuition at UH West Oahu would go up 49 percent over five years, to $7,656 in 2016-2017, from $5,136 this year, equal to what UH-Hilo students would pay.

UH community college students represent the fastest-growing segment of the UH population. Students taking 15 credits pay $2,981 this school year. Their tuition would go up $120 next year and peak at $3,971 for the 2016-17 school year, a 33 percent increase.

Eric Dulay, 28, a UH-Manoa undergraduate majoring in Asian studies with a minor in Ilocano, was surprised by the size of the tuition increases.

“That’s a big increase,” Dulay said. “That puts a dent in my wallet, just to pay a little bit extra.”

Dulay lives with his mother, who relies on him to help with expenses for the house. So he holds down two part-time jobs while attending UH part time.

“I have to budget myself, make sure I don’t go over what I can spend,” Dulay said. “It’s a lot of sacrifice.”

UH has suffered more than $86 million in cuts to its “core operating budget” over the last two years, UH President M.R.C. Greenwood said in a statement Thursday.

“But we must continue to meet our obligation of making an affordable, high-quality college degree within the reach of Hawaii’s people,” Greenwood said. “These increases, we believe, are reasonable and they were kept as low as possible in light of how Hawaii families are struggling financially in these times.

“These increases will allow us to provide more financial aid, start addressing our long-delayed repair and maintenance backlog, upgrade our business systems to better manage enrollment and the need for classes, and expand the degree offerings in fields that we know will offer good-paying jobs of the future. It’s an investment we absolutely have to make in our only public institution of higher learning in Hawaii.”

Meetings to roll out the proposal have been scheduled across the state and on every UH campus “to explain the rationale, what increases would be used for, and entertain feedback from the public,” UH officials said in a statement. “This process is expected to take several weeks and the final recommendation will be presented to the Board of Regents for action at a meeting in mid-fall.”

Alex Hernandez, 18, a Windward Community College student, said he plans to transfer to UH-Manoa and major in marine biology.

He thought UH’s tuition plan “may be in response to the government’s budget crisis and trying to squeeze every penny out of everything they can. But I feel that fat can be trimmed out of other places in government rather than education.”

“A lot of people are going back to school now because of the economy … and it can be harder for people to pursue an education. And an education, in my view, is very important.”

Cynthia Thurlow, 46, a journalism major at UH-Manoa, already is looking for work to help pay for her education.

With UH regents considering raising tuition even more, “it’s going to be tough,” Thurlow said. “We’ve got tuition hikes. We’ve seen cuts in financial aid. That’s pretty difficult to deal with. It’s as if we’re being hit on two ends there.”

UH officials will solicit feedback on their tuition plan beginning on Sept. 16 at Windward Community College, followed by a similar presentation on Sept. 20 at UH-West Oahu.

Input on the proposal can be emailed to tuition@hawaii.edu or given in person at the hearings.

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Correction: A previous version of this story online and in Friday’s print edition, based on a UH news release, reported that tuition at UH-Manoa would go up $528 next year for resident students at UH-Manoa and by $192 at community colleges. Also, the UH is proposing just tuition increases, not fees as originally reported.