By Maria Hickey, KWMU

St. Louis, MO. – The University of Missouri's Board of Curators will hear about a new tuition proposal this week.

President Elson Floyd's new proposal would tie tuition to inflation rates and whether state appropriations are keeping pace with inflation increases.

So if inflation went up three percent and state funding remained flat, tuition would increase six percent.

University of Missouri spokesman Joe Moore says Missourians understand the only sources of revenue are tuition and state appropriations.

"If one goes down as it has the last four or five fiscal years obviously the other has to go up. In this case tuition has gone up beyond the rate of inflation with the exception of this last year," Moore said. "So that is something that would be clarified and make tuition for predictable in coming years."

President Floyd has dropped an idea to freeze tuition for incoming students for up to five years.

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