Balancing the State College Budget: Why Must Tuition Increase and by How Much?(Report‪)‬

INTRODUCTION Exam time is here, or so it seemed, as Percy Bradshaw prepared to enter the Board of Trustees Conference Room at Winegar University. This year July 15 had been selected as the date for the annual skewering. The event never failed to create butterflies as Percy braced himself for the litany of questions--perhaps it was an exam--that were sure to bombard him once inside the room. The examiners were the Board Members and President of Winegar and Percy had been relentlessly playing their predictable queries over in his mind as the moment of truth approached: