M E M O R A N D U M

							November 17, 2010

To:		Members of the Board of Trustees

From:		Nancy L. Zimpher, Chancellor 

Subject:	Final Adoption of Regional Tuition Rate � State University of New York Maritime College

	I recommend that the Board of Trustees adopt the following resolution:

Resolved that effective with respect to the Fall 2010 semester and thereafter, Section 302.5 of Title 8 of the Official Compilation of Codes, Rules and Regulations of the State of New York, as last amended by Resolution 1997-70, adopted on May 28, 1997, be and hereby is amended to read as follows (brackets denote old material to be deleted; underlining denotes new material to be added): 

302.5  Tuition charge for nonresident students at Maritime College.
(a) The chancellor hereby is authorized to execute in the name and under the seal of the State University on behalf of the Maritime College thereof, an agreement with the United States of America, acting through the Maritime Administration of the Department of Transportation, under the Maritime Academy Act of 1958 (Public Law 85-672) and applicable regulations, for annual payments in support of the Maritime College, including agreement to admit students resident in other states, and for subsidy payments with respect to students attending the Maritime College and further including agreements with other states to participate in a regional maritime academy whereby students from participating states are charged [the tuition role for State residents] a special tuition rate of 150% of the tuition [role] rate for State residents; provided, however, that students from participating states who have matriculated during or prior to the State University�s 2009-10 fiscal year shall be charged a special tuition rate of 125% of the tuition rate for State students, in accordance with Federal requirements.
(b) The increased annual payment in support of the Maritime College upon condition of admitting students residents in other states shall be received in discharge of such amount of the established nonresident tuition charge rate as shall reduce it to the special rate described in paragraph (a) above [rate charged State residents] in the case of such students admitted under Federal requirements.

Background

	This resolution adopts, on a final basis, changes to the tuition charges of the Maritime College. Since 1997, Maritime College has been recognized by the federal government as a Regional Maritime Academy.  In May 1997, the Board of Trustees approved the final adoption of an amendment to the tuition and fees schedule that allowed, effective for the fall 1997 semester, students from the �region� to be charged the in-state tuition rate for their education.  The states that are part of this region are Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Washington D.C., and Virginia.

       Maritime College has requested additional flexibility in setting the tuition rate for students from the region, and has proposed adjusting the �in-region� rate to 125% of the in-state tuition for currently enrolled students and to 150% of the in-state rate for students entering Fall 2010 and later.  

	The Board previously initiated the emergency rule making process on this amendment at its August 2010 meeting, and readopted these amendments on an emergency basis at this meeting.  The proposed rule making was published in the September 29, 2010 State Register.  No comments from the public were received. 








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