31.   The leaders have succeeded in restoring virtually all those cuts, avoiding the need for tuition increases in either system this year.

32.   The same tuition increase also will apply to students in professional programs, such as medical and law schools at Columbia and UMKC.

33.   The pressure to contain tuition increases is coming, as might be expected, from financially strained parents and students.

34.   The strikers are protesting a tuition increase.

35.   The tuition increases and budget shortfalls seem most pronounced so far in the South and Midwest.

36.   The tuition increases have largely outpaced inflation.

37.   The SUNY and CUNY boards have the final say, but the cut in state aid is expected to force a tuition increase of that magnitude.

38.   The work group also decides what background material on tuition increases will be given to members of the Board of Regents.

39.   The tuition increase is one piece of the plan to compensate for the cutback in state funds and rising employee benefit costs.

40.   They said that the gap between inflation and tuition increases reflected the growing value of a college degree in the United States.