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More campuses freeze or cut tuition as backlash continues

Hechinger Report

October 5, 2012

As public anger over college costs continue, and legislators in some states get to work on their budgets, more colleges and universities are promising to freeze or cut tuition—in many cases, on the condition that they receive more taxpayer funding. The latest schools and systems to dangle promises of lower charges follow a wave of campuses that have already announced them. Concordia University, a private institution in St. Paul, Minnesota, said it would reduce its undergraduate tuition by one third beginning next fall.

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