The cost of tuition isn’t the only thing going up at the three state-supported universities. The Board of Regents approved an increase in room and board rates for the schools at their meeting Thursday in Council Bluffs. The cost for the most popular double room and meal plan at the University of Iowa will go up two-point-seven percent, it increases two-point-four percent at Iowa State University, and one-point-nine percent at the University of Northern Iowa. Regent Nancy Boetger, of Harlan, asked Brad Berg of the Regents office if the rates go up consistently every year. “Yeah, I think that’s a fair statement. These systems are 100 percent responsible for all of their operating costs in addition to all of their capital improvements, and they are a self supporting unit,” Berg says.

Berg say they try to keep the costs increases down. Berg says they are aware that this is part of the cost of attending the three schools.

The most common plan at the University of Iowa with a double room and full board will increase 269 dollars to ten-thousand-284 dollars. At Iowa State that same plan will increase 203 dollars to eight-thousand-720 dollars. The University of Northern Iowa plan increase 167 dollars to eight-thousand-948 dollars.

(Radio Iowa)