Auburn University's Board of Trustees will hold a meeting Friday, June 27, where committee members will elaborate on raising the tuition price.
The board approved on-campus construction projects in April, regardless of the necessity to increase tuition again for the 2014-15 year.
The largest renovation was made to Foy Dining Hall earlier this summer, creating a $600,000 increase to the original $1.6 million budget approved by the board.
"If we would have just continued to get what we had been getting, we would have $558 million more," said Don Large, executive vice president, at the April 11 Board of Trustees meeting. "The bad news is we have to ask for a tuition increase. The good news is we can keep it lower than we have in recent years, but it's still going to be something."
Tuition will be increased by .7 percent, down from the one percent increase from last year that Large estimates it will bring in the school about $2 million overall.
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