Recognizing students' responsibility to defray a portion of the cost of higher education, the University of Alaska will assess tuition and student fees. By maintaining competative tuition rates, the University of Alaska seeks to make higher education accessible to all Alaskans who have the interest dedication, and ability to learn. B. Definitions 1.
Tuition is applied only to courses offered for credit.
Tuition receipts shall be used at the campus that generates the tuition. Except as provided elsewhere in this policy, tuition may be changed only by action of the Board of Regents. Students shall have adequate notice of tuition and other student fee charges and the opportunity to participate in decision-making. The Board of Regents reserves the right to make changes in tuition and other student charges without prior notice if the Board of Regents determines such action to be necessary and in the best interests of the University and its students. Tuition may be increased by emergency action if state funding for the University of Alaska system is decreased from one fiscal year to the next.