But free instate tuition program expanded
The University of Vermont Board of Trustees approved the tuition hike for the 2025-26 academic year at its annual fall meeting Friday and Saturday at the Dudley H. Davis Center.
Trustees set a 4.5% increase for out-of-state students and a 2% increase for Vermonters, as well as a 3.5-percent increase for room and board, for the next academic year.
UVM also expanded by 33% the number of students from Vermont households with a combined annual income up to $100,000 who may attend the state’s flagship public university tuition-free. The 33-percent increase follows an upward adjustment of the program’s household income threshold by 25 percent for Fall 2024.
The Board approved the Vermont Complex Systems Institute for computation, artificial intelligence, complex systems, open source, and network science research. This new institute reflects the evolution of the existing Vermont Complex Systems Center in the College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences to a university-wide institute reporting to the Office of the Vice President for Research.
The Board received an academic update from Vice President for Research and Economic Development Kirk Dombrowski on UVM’s gen-AI Task Force, a work group comprising 45 members from across the university including the Larner College of Medicine and administrative units such as Enrollment Management.
The Task Force examined how generative artificial intelligence is currently used across the university, with the goals of identifying resource, technological, information, and training needs arising from the encounter with AI across units/domains/areas; discussing needed policy and best practice statements development around the use of generative AI in university operations; and suggesting collaborative and university-wide opportunities for use of AI.
The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences reported on research growth – from $22M to $45M – as well as research site developments including the acquisition of the 400-acre Nordic Farm agricultural facility in Charlotte and the hiring of Tim Rademacher as scientific director for the Proctor Maple Research Center.