UWA Trustees Approve Tuition Freeze For Seventh Consecutive Year

LIVINGSTON, AL — The University of West Alabama announced this week that its proposal to freeze tuition for the seventh consecutive year has been approved by the UWA Board of Trustees.

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UWA says the tuition freeze is part of the university’s commitment to helping students, while administrators expect a positive impact on both student recruitment and retention.

“We want to make a high-quality educational experience as affordable as possible and for as many students as possible,” UWA President Ken Tucker said. “As a public institution, we also have an obligation to operate as efficiently and responsibly as we can, and we believe that we’ve outlined a budget that will meet all of these needs.”

Tucker also said that unpredictability and challenges loom for most higher education institutions, but insisted that UWA is committed to keeping students on track in their educational pursuits, even in the face of economic turbulence that students and their families face in this inflationary economy.

“We strive to manage a budget that puts as little financial burden as necessary on students and their families,” Tucker said. “We want our students to reap the positive results of our work toward maximizing operational efficiency, expense reduction strategies, and revenue enhancement initiatives.”

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