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Trustees approve finance items: tuition adjustments, property purchase, broadcast-license sale and solar/LED projects

Southern Illinois University Board of Trustees · February 6, 2026
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The board approved finance and capital items including modest tuition increases for the School of Medicine, purchase of two Herndon Street properties for the medical school, authorization to sell WSIU's FCC educational broadband license, and energy contracts for solar and LED installations projected to save electricity costs over 20 years.

The Southern Illinois University Board of Trustees approved a series of finance and capital actions during committee and full-board proceedings, acting on tuition and fee changes, property acquisition, license disposition and energy projects.

Finance committee members approved proposed FY27 tuition and fee adjustments for the School of Medicine: a 0.7% increase for the physician assistant master's program and a 1.1% increase for medical students, with a fee increase of…

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