CINCINNAT ENQUIRER: DON"T LINK TUITION, VOTING

It’s heartening to see that, even in our deeply divided electorate, lawmakers can still come together to reject a really bad idea.

The idea in this case is a proposal to charge in-state tuition to out-of-state students at Ohio universities who receive college documentation to vote here. If passed, the measure could cost universities in the state an estimated $270 million a year in tuition – including around $65.2 million at Miami University and $41.7 million at the University of Cincinnati.

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FOR UTAH COLLEGE PRESIDENTS, RAISE IN PAY, IRE?

Utah public college presidents would get raises of up to 24 percent in July under a plan approved by the Utah Board of Regents.

The extra money is designed to bring relatively low Utah salaries closer to rates at similar schools, a move Utah Commissioner of Higher Education David Buhler said is necessary to attract the best leaders.

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TWO-YEAR TUITION FREEZE FOR UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUR-YEAR CAMPUSES

Gov. Scott Walker's proposal to freeze student tuition at University of Wisconsin System campuses for the next two years would mark the first two-year tuition freeze for the four-year campuses in the 42-year history of the UW System.

The last time students at the 13 four-year public universities saw a tuition freeze was more than 10 years ago, in the 2000-'01 academic year.

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