Tech regents to set fall tuition
Texas Tech's governing board is scheduled to set tuition for the upcoming school year Thursday during a special meeting in Dallas, where every university dollar could land under a microscope.
Regents' meeting in the Metroplex comes nearly a month after lawmakers passed a state budget that shaved nearly 7 percent from the system's budget, amounting to nearly $30 million in cuts from its Lubbock flagship alone.
Anticipating cuts, school officials asked the board in March to approve a tuition increase window of up to 6 percent.
Guy Bailey, Tech's president, said he and his staff plan to meet today with finalized numbers in hand to nail down a specific request for the board. He anticipates he will ask regents to raise tuition at least somewhat.
Significant efficiency gains might have prevented a tuition increase, he said, had the state funding crunch not tied his hands.
Still, Bailey said, he intends to explain to the board in detail efficiency gains Tech has made during his three years at the helm, including a few controversial faculty assessments that have gained traction elsewhere in Texas.
"It's unfair for us to ask for a tuition increase and not show the gains we've made in cost efficiency," he said. "It's something we've worked very hard on."
His presentation includes a variety of familiar higher education metrics, such as faculty workloads and the average cost for each student credit hour taught at the university.
The analysis paints a portrait of a university that during the past few years has squeezed more and more out of each dollar spent and each square foot of space.
On the facility front, the university has maximized its usage of space in recent years from 72 percent to more than 90 percent today.
Greater gains have come on the academic side.
For instance, each weighted student credit hour at Tech - a vital measure of instruction factoring heavily into state formula funding - cost the university $153 in 2008.
Today that has decreased to $127, a 17-percent efficiency gain thanks largely to a variety of belt-tightening measures like administrative cutbacks, program eliminations, larger class sizes and heftier faculty teaching loads.
Bailey notes these cutbacks have their consequences that don't show on financial ledgers, such as an increasingly lopsided student-faculty ratio that shot up from 19:1 in 2008 to 23:1 today.
The gap, higher than many of Tech's competitors, could continue to widen this fall when Bailey expects another, though less striking, enrollment record.
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