UT System Board of Regents approve an increase of nine percent over two years
On March 3, the University of Texas System Board of Regents approved tuition and fee increases for the next two years for nine UT system institutions, including UTSA. Tuition will increase 4.5 percent, or $366 a year for full-time students. The increase will be effective beginning Fall 2010.
Right now, students taking 12 hours pay $3,208.70 in tuition and fees. With the increase, those same students will pay $3,574.70 by Fall 2010 and about $4,400 by Fall 2011.
The University of Texas System regents have voted to increase tuition at the flagship Austin campus by 5.4 percent this fall.
According to the Austin American-Statesman, in-state undergraduates at the University of Texas at Austin will pay an average of $4,709 per semester for tuition and fees in 2010-11 and $4,892 the following academic year. The present tuition and fees total averages $4,468 per semester.
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Weight loss challenge comes to campus
Want to lose weight and make some money in the process? Fat Chance, a weight-loss contest modeled after The Biggest Loser, will hold a campus-wide competition with a chance to win $500 for UTSA students.
Fat Chance was created by students Chance Lunsford, Mikael Cantu and Joe Salmon as a part of a project for their Social Entrepreneurship course.
“We have to use our managerial and entrepreneurial skills creatively and appropriately to help solve social problems,” Salmon said.
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