Tuition prices will be going up at Fort Hays State University and other Regents institutions.

The state legislature has cut the schools’ budgets 1.5%.

That’s a reduction of more than $845,000 for Fort Hays State. President Ed Hammond is not happy but he hopes the loss of state funding will be mitigated by savings in energy costs when the university’s two new wind turbines go on line August 1:

Hammond says FHSU will propose a 3.42% tuition increase next year and an increase of 47 cents per credit hour in required fees,or 1.43%.