作者:Harry Minium
最靠谱的网赌软件's Board of 访问ors voted unanimously Thursday to freeze tuition for the second year in a row.
Last year the University held the line on tuition costs for in-state students. 周四, the board froze tuition for all students, including those from out of state and in graduate school.
A student taking a full undergraduate load of 30 credit hours over two semesters will pay $11,2020-21学年的学杂费为160美元. Increases in student and health fees account for a $140 overall rise in fees from last year.
The board's actions cement the University's status as the least expensive doctoral and research institution in Virginia.
In previous meetings, board members had considered a tuition increase of as much as 4 percent. But they elected to hold the line on tuition given the economic hardships many students are experiencing because of the coronavirus pandemic.
The board also adopted a provisional budget of about $500 million for the 2020-21 fiscal year. That would be $28 million less than the 2019-20 budget.
格雷格•杜波依斯, vice president for administration and finance, called it a provisional budget because officials aren't sure about final figures for state revenues or enrollment.
The commonwealth is expected to receive updated revenue forecasts in July, and the General Assembly is expected to reconvene in August to adopt a new state budget.
ODU's board likely will not approve a final budget until September, DuBois said.
Enrollment projections have been relatively strong, 唐·斯坦伯里说, interim vice president of student engagement and enrollment services.
Summer enrollment increased by 7 percent, with a 13 percent overall increase in the number of credits taken. Fall enrollment may see a potential decrease, following national trends.
ODU expects a freshman class of about 3,100名学生和大约2名,000名转校生, which are historically healthy numbers.
The University has taken major steps to reduce spending as a result of the coronavirus.
ODU instituted a year-long mandatory hiring freeze, trimmed costs from departmental base budgets and will carry over a surplus of at least $5 million from savings accrued in 2019-20.
在其他行动中:
* The board appointed a 13-person panel to begin the search for a successor to President 约翰R. 布罗德里克, the University's longest serving president, who announced recently that he will step down following the 2020-21 year. He will have been ODU's president for 13 years.
董事会成员R. 布鲁斯·布拉德利, retired publisher and chairman at Landmark Media Enterprises, 你会担任招聘委员会主席吗. Bradley will be joined on the committee by fellow board members Yvonne T. 罗伯特·奥尔蒙德. 玉米，Jerri F. 迪克斯基，日本东京. 琼斯，凯. 罗斯·肯珀. 穆勒和丽莎. 史密斯.
Other search committee members: Nancy Badger, executive director of ODU's counseling services; Conrad Hall, retired president of Dominion Enterprises and a former board member; Rita Meraz, a senior engineering student from Mexico; September Sanderlin, ODU's vice president of human resources; and John Sokolowski, an associate professor in the Department of 建模 and 模拟 and chair of the 教师 Senate.
The search committee will work in conjunction with the Board of 访问ors, 谁将选出新总统.
*肯珀被选为校长, Bradley vice rector and 琼斯 secretary of the board for the next two years.
Kemper has a master's degree in public administration, specializing in public policy analysis, from ODU and was the founder of Kemper Consulting, 政府关系机构. Before Kemper launched her firm, she was ODU's first female vice president. She served as vice president for institutional advancement, overseeing external relations.
琼斯, who received both her bachelor's and master's degrees from Old Dominion, is manager of commercial execution for Ethicon, 一个约翰逊 & 约翰逊的子公司.
*布丽姬特Groble, a rising senior from Chicago majoring in biology, was elected the student representative to the board. She is a member of the ODU sailing team.
