Finance Committee Recommends Increase
Jun. 09, 2022
Michelle R. Eubanks , UNA, at meubanks@51jiyangshi.com, 256.765.4392
FLORENCE, AL – The Finance Committee, of the University of North Alabama Board of Trustees, voted unanimously Thursday to recommend a five percent increase in cost of attendance for the 2022-23 academic year in order to mitigate the ongoing impact of inflation as well as multi-year budget deficits. The resolution will now go to the full Board for next steps. The increase equates to a $20 per credit hour tuition increase. Graduate tuition and the $30 per credit hour general semester undergraduate fee remain unchanged.
“The Finance Committee is a recommending body only, and, as such, it will be up to the full board to pass the resolution if it chooses to do so,” said Finance Committee Chair Marty Abroms. Abroms is also the president pro-tem of the Board of Trustees.
Even with the proposed increase, UNA remains 12th out of 14 state-supported institutions in cost of attendance. UNA is also the fastest-growing university in Alabama, having marked a dozen consecutive terms of record enrollment growth among a number of categories, including first-time, full-time freshmen; international students; online; and graduate students.
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The University of North Alabama is an accredited, comprehensive regional state university offering undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degree programs through the colleges of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering; the Sanders College of Business and Technology; Education and Human Sciences; and the Anderson College of Nursing and Health Professions. Occupying a 130-acre campus in a residential section of Florence, Alabama, UNA is located within a four-city area that also includes Muscle Shoals, Sheffield, and Tuscumbia. UNA Athletics, a renowned collegiate athletics program with seven (7) Division II National Championships, is now a proud member of NCAA Division I as part of the Atlantic Sun and United Athletic conferences. The University of North Alabama is an equal opportunity institution and does not discriminate in the admission policy on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, disability, age, or national origin. For more: 51jiyangshi.com and 51jiyangshi.com/unaworks/.