Oklahoma tuition

Comments on various Oklahoma news sites are already responding to a proposed tuition increase at one of Oklahoma's state public universities, the University of Oklahoma in Norman.

You can view these stories and these comments here:
Tulsa World (via Associated Press): OU tuition likely to rise by 9.9 percent

Oklahoma Daily (OU student newspaper): Tuition hike

Norman Transcript: Boren predicts nearly 10 percent raise in tuition

Oklahoman: Students warned of tuition increase

All of these sites offer the option to post your own opinion with other comments after the story. As you can no doubt see, people are reacting very negatively to the story that tuition will now cost more than $5,000 per year to attend a public school and the comments are just going to continue as more people become aware of this story.

From personal experience, I can say that tuition was once less than $2,000 a mere seven years ago when I was a freshman at OU. The very next semester was the large double-digit tuition increases that hit across the country. The colleagues from Texas that had said that out-of-state tuition to OU was lower than in-state tuition in Texas were now transferring back to their home states. Less and less students lived in the dorms, it seemed.

A few years later, OU President and former U.S. Senator and Oklahoma Governor David Boren had a new idea - scholarships to offset tuition increases. They're called "Sooner Heritage" and nearly everyone that applied for them received at something (and everyone that fulfilled all requirements, including applying for federal Financial Aid received something). The awards were about $500-$1,000 each, about the amount of the annual tuition increases.

Tuition will likely go up once again, pending regent approval... but it doesn't look that Heritage scholarship amounts are, which is what many online commenters are calling out OU on.

~AP