CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Two of the three community colleges that were denied large tuition increases last week now plan to raise tuition by not more than 5 percent.
Administrators at West Virginia University at Parkersburg and Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College won’t have to go before the Council for Community and Technical College Education to get permission for the increases.
The third school, BridgeValley Community and Technical College, hasn’t decided how its budget will look, said spokesman Brian Bolyard. He couldn’t say when the school might make a decision.
At the meeting last week, council member and state Commerce Secretary Keith Burdette rebuked several schools for relying too much on large tuition increases to fill holes in their budgets. Of five schools that proposed tuition increases more than 5 percent, only one request was approved in full…
