CU president Benson seeks 9.3 percent tuition hike

BOULDER (AP) - University of Colorado President Bruce Benson is proposing hiking tuition another 9.3 percent for most in-state undergraduate students next year.

If approved, tuition at the state's flagship university in 2009 would have increased nearly 25 percent over 2007 tuition. Last summer, the Board of Regents approved a 14.6 percent increase.

Benson's tuition proposal has the backing of campus chancellors and will be discussed during a special regents' meeting in Denver Tuesday.

The hike would cost students enrolling in the College of Arts and Sciences an extra $504, bringing annual tuition to $5,922. Last year's increase meant an extra $665.