(Charleston Gazette-Mail)— The West Virginia State University Board of Governors has an item labeled “Fiscal Year 2019 Budget and 2018-2019 Tuition and Fee Schedule” on its Friday meeting agenda, and “action” is listed next to it.
But the agenda doesn’t provide further detail, and Jack Bailey, the school’s assistant vice president for communications and marketing, didn’t provide further information when a reporter said they wanted information on any proposed tuition schedule and other items that would be in the full agenda packet.
“A copy of the Board book will be made available to you Friday at the Board of Governors meeting, but not before,” he told the Gazette-Mail via email.
When the school’s governing board met in April 2017, members authorized university President Anthony Jenkins to raise tuition and fees by as much as 10 percent once the Legislature had agreed on a budget. Jenkins said in June 2017 that a University Fee Committee had been meeting during the past several months to consider how much tuition and fees should increase.
Faculty, staff members and students were all members of the committee. The committee recommended that Jenkins raise tuition and fees by 5 percent, and he agreed, according to a June 2017 Gazette-Mail article.
The full board meeting begins at 10:30 a.m. Friday in the Grand Hall of WVSU’s Erickson Alumni Center in Institute. Board committee meetings start at 8 a.m. that day in the center, and there’s a 9:15 a.m. meeting of the finance committee, with tuition also on its agenda, in the center’s Grand Hall.
