The cost of living for Ann Arbor's student population doesn't just come down to rental rates and pint prices.
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ANN ARBOR -- Students at the University of Michigan called on the school's regents Thursday to freeze tuition rates if the state keeps funding to the university constant.
The recession has so battered students and their families that the dream of graduating college has become uncertain for many students, members of the newly formed coalition Stop the Hike told regents at their regular board meeting.
"I know that the University of Michigan values diversity among its students but without a tuition freeze it may lose many of its low-income and working class students," said first-generation college student Rachel Long, 19, of Almont. Her mother is a hairdresser and her father is an electrician who has been laid off often within the last five years. Despite working summer jobs, Long struggles to pay for rent, food and textbooks, in addition to worrying about rising tuition costs, she said.
In order to retain socioeconomic diversity here at the university, students ... need to be told that regardless of their economic background, their talents are still welcome at the University of Michigan."
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