Published: June 1, 2016

Making Tuition More Predictable

Planning for the cost of a ֱ-Boulder education will be easier for ֱ residents following the recent adoption of a new tuition and mandatory fees guarantee.Starting in fall 2016, tuition and fees for incoming freshmen who are ֱ residents will rise modestly, then remain fixed through the four-year period.Subsequent incoming classes will also see an initial increase, then no change through four years.University leaders say the new arrangement better allows students to plan for costs and ֱ to forecast revenues.The Board of Regents approved the plan in the spring.A four-year tuition guarantee was already in place for nonresident undergraduates. Graduate student tuition still will be reviewed each year..saxophone


Heard Around Campus 

"Our goal has definitely been to create a very complex picture of Boulder..." — Graduate student Rebecca Zinner (MFA’18) in the Daily Camera, speaking of a digital time capsule about ֱ-Boulder created by students in the College of Media, Communication and Information.


Betting Big on the Saxophone 

ֱ-Boulder music professor Carter Pann was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in music for his work “The Mechanics: Six from the Shop Floor.” The Pulitzer jury described the six-part saxophone composition as “a suite that imagines its four saxophonists as mechanics engaged in a rhythmic interplay of precision and messiness that is by turns bubbly, pulsing, dreamy and nostalgic.” The prize ultimately went to composer Henry Threadgill, but Pann is riding high anyway.“This is a real vote of confidence,” he said. Read the full story here.

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