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Glenville State to lower tuition, fees for 2018-19

GLENVILLE, W.Va. — For the second consecutive year Glenville State College will not increase student tuition.

The announcement came Thursday on the Glenville campus after a decision by the school’s Board of Governors to actually lower tuition by a half-percent. Last year the BOG decided to keep 2017-18 tuition at 2016-17 levels.

GSC President Tracy Pellett said the school doesn’t have much company.

“First, you have to have the will to do it–that you’re going to take savings and reinvest it back into students,” he said. “Secondly, the way we’ve been doing it is by becoming more efficient and becoming smarter how we are operating as an entity.”

The school will lose about $90,000 with the tuition move. Officials hope the decrease in cost will actually increase enrollment.

According to Pellett, Glenville is also holding the line on room and board, lowering the cost of more than half of its course fees and converting its bookstore to an online presence which should save students about 30 percent in textbook costs.

Pellett got the largest round of applause at Thursday’s announcement when he said parking costs would be going down, both the cost of permits and fines.

“We think we can get good behavior and at the same time save them money,” he said.

Glenville State Student Government Association President Justin Woods, a junior from Nicholas County, appreciates the effort school officials are making.

“It’s huge for us,” Woods said.

State higher education officials, at the legislature’s request, are considering a new funding formula for the state’s colleges and universities. The current proposal would cost Glenville about $1 million a year in state funding, Pellet said.

“So this could be potentially our last ability to lower costs simply because that’s a heck of a headwind to fly into,” he said.

Glenville’s allocation in the new state budget beginning July 1 is about he same as it is in the current state spending plan.





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