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University officials warn proposed tuition-fee restrictions and lapsing would hamstring system operations
Summary
University witnesses told the finance committee that proposals to restrict use of tuition and special-fee balances to the campus where they were collected, and to lapse unspent balances, would undermine systemwide functions, harm small campuses, and reduce funds for deferred maintenance and scholarships.
University officials and witnesses warned legislators that a pair of proposed provisions would materially change the University of Hawaiʻi's ability to manage systemwide operations. At the hearing, a university representative described a system with roughly $428 million in tuition and special-fee balances and warned that making those funds campus-specific or sweeping them to the general fund would "transform the…
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