Missouri Code of State Regulations › Title 6 - DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT › Division 10 - Commissioner of Higher Education › Chapter 14 - Tuition Increases › Section 6 CSR 10-14.010 - Tuition Increases

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 14, July 15, 2024
PURPOSE: This rule amendment changes the
				  administrative rule to comply with statutory changes to section
				  173.1003,
				  RSMo due to the passage of HB 297 in 2021.
(1) Definitions.
(A) Academic year means the fall and spring
				semesters between August 1 and July 31 of one (1) three hundred sixty-five-
				(365-) day period.
(B) CBHE means
				the Coordinating Board for Higher Education.
(C) Commissioner means the Commissioner of Higher
				Education.
(D) Course fees means
				those fees in addition to tuition charged to full-time undergraduate students
				for enrollment in specific courses, excluding student approved fees and
				required fees.
(E) Differential
				tuition or differentiated tuition means a system of charging tuition in which
				Missouri resident undergraduate students enrolled full-time in certain
				undergraduate degree programs designated by the institution are charged tuition
				at additional rates or amounts greater than what is charged to each Missouri
				resident undergraduate student for courses required for that degree program.
				The additional rates or amounts of tuition in a differentiated tuition system
				must be based on enrollment in the designated degree program and not based on
				enrollment in specific courses.
(F)
				Elective means a course or class taken by a student which does not satisfy any
				required component of a degree program, including required general education
				courses, for which an institution is charging differentiated tuition.
(G) Student approved fee means any fee the
				amount of which has been approved by a majority of students who vote in a
				campus-wide election or by a majority of members of an officially recognized
				student government organization popularly elected by the students of an
				institution or a campus within a multi-campus system.
(H) Included institution means all institutions that
				offer four-(4-) year degree programs, State Technical College, and any
				community college that charges out-of-district Missouri residents tuition that
				is equal to or exceeds the average tuition.
(I) Institution means an approved public institution
				of higher education, as defined in section
				173.1102, RSMo. An
				institution that is comprised of more than one (1) campus at which the same
				level of degree is offered shall constitute one (1) institution for purposes of
				this rule.
(J) MDHEWD means the
				Missouri Department of Higher Education and Workforce Development.
(K) Notice of tuition change means written
				documentation in a format prescribed by MDHEWD, the accuracy of which is
				attested by the institution's president or chancellor, indicating the tuition
				for the current academic year, the tuition for the upcoming academic year, and
				the percentage change between the two (2).
(L) Required fees means those fees charged to all
				full-time undergraduate students and excludes course fees and any student
				approved fee established after August 27, 2007.
(M) Tuition means the dollar amount an institution
				charges each Missouri resident undergraduate student enrolled in thirty (30)
				credit hours plus the required fees for the academic year. In the community
				college context, "tuition" means out-of-taxing-district Missouri resident
				tuition plus the required fees for the academic year.