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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Good Afternoon Business Officers:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Attached are the forms for your institutions to submit FY16 tuition and mandatory fee requests for undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs. The deadline for submitting
the forms is 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, <b>June 10, 2015</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Please complete the appropriate FY16 tuition and mandatory fee request form(s) for your institution’s tier and programs. FY15 tuition and fees columns should be presented
with the FY15 approved amounts by the State Regents. Please also complete the narrative form documenting the impact on students’ ability to pay, impact on enrollment, availability of financial aid, cost-effective measures implemented, communication to students/constituents
and a detailed justification for all increases. For each mandatory fee which will be changing, the corresponding request for changes to mandatory fee form must be submitted. Board approval and with the date of the approval is required for all FY16 rates
that you are submitting to the State Regents for approval.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Since we integrated the differentiated rate tuition and single rate tuition from separate forms into one form, the institutions with differentiated rate would enter nonresident
tuition rate (row 8) to generate total nonresident tuition rate (row 9) and the institutions with single rate would enter total nonresident tuition rate at row 9. As for institution<span style="color:#1F497D">s</span> requesting a flat-rate tuition plan in
FY16, a flat-rate tuition and mandatory fees form is required in addition to the standard tier-base tuition and mandatory fees form. Therefore, both the flat-rate form and the standard form are required for each flat-rate plan your institution<span style="color:#1F497D">
is</span> requesting. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Be mindful that not to add formula to the proposed FY16 per credit hour rate on total resident tuition and total nonresident tuition (cell F7 and cell F9) which can cause discrepancy
to 30 credit hour rate on total resident tuition and total nonresident tuition (cell G7 and cell G9) due to rounding generated from the formula you added to cell F7 and cell F9. FY16 guaranteed tuition rate shall not exceed 115% of the nonguaranteed tuition
rate. As the rounding down rule does not apply to cell M9, any decimals above 115% (i.e., 115.0001%) would require to be reduced to less than 115% (i.e., 114.9999%).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">As in the past, it is possible that a tuition review hearing will be scheduled at which Presidents will present information to the State Regents concerning their tuition and
fee requests. Once that has been determined, addition<span style="color:#1F497D">al</span> information will be sent to your Presidents regarding the date and schedules of the hearing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Please submit completed request forms electronically in Excel format to
<a href="mailto:ycollier@osrhe.edu">ycollier@osrhe.edu</a> by deadline and feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Thank you for the great job you have done over the years and years to come.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:purple">Yolenda Collier</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:purple">Fiscal Analyst</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:purple">Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:purple">(405) 225-9317</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:purple"><a href="mailto:ycollier@osrhe.edu">ycollier@osrhe.edu</a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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