Student quoted in Press Herald article on systemwide tuition increase

Samuel Borer, a junior at the University of Maine studying physics and math, was quoted in a Portland Press Herald article about how students in the University of Maine System are likely to see an increase in tuition and fees this fall, the first hike in six years. The trustees will vote on the increase, first proposed last year, at their May meeting as part of the budget, according to the article. Several student representatives to the board of trustees said students on their campuses know about the pending increase and aren’t that upset about it, the article states. “When you show students the data, they understand it,” Borer said. “It came down to people understanding what was happening.” Borer also was quoted in a Bangor Daily News article on the tuition increase.