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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Good Morning Business Officers,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Attached are the forms for your institutions to submit FY18 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 14, 2017</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 FY18 tuition and mandatory fee request form(s) for your institution’s tier and programs. FY17 tuition and fees columns should be presented with
the FY17 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 FY18 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"">Be mindful that not to add a formula to the proposed FY18 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. FY18 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"">Submit completed request forms
<b>electronically in Excel</b> format to <a href="mailto:jbellingar@osrhe.edu">jbellingar@osrhe.edu</a> by the deadline. Please contact me if you have any questions.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best Regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#404040">Jared Bellingar<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Fiscal Analyst<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.okhighered.org/"><span style="color:blue">Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">P: 405.225.9139<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:jbellingar@osrhe.edu"><span style="color:blue">jbellingar@osrhe.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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