The Board of Governors met Feb. 8 and 9 in Greensboro and approved the tuition and fees increase plans for all 16 UNC-System campus schools, which meet the 6.5 percent increase cap that UNC-System President Erskine Bowles was pushing for, according to Will Quick, student body president.

N.C. State’s tuition and fees increase falls under the 6.5 percent tuition and fees increase cap, not including certain fee increases, such as the indebtedness fee. With these fees that are exempt from the increase, the tuition and fees increase at NCSU amounts to a 6.9 percent increase.

According to Quick, the BOG approved all of the campus increases, including UNC-Chapel Hill’s high out-of-state tuition increase.

“Everything that the Board of Trustees recommended, the Board of Governors upheld for us,” Quick said.

Quick said there was more discussion about UNC-CH’s increase for out-of-state tuition and fees.

“UNC doesn’t have trouble recruiting out-of-state students as much as N.C. State, but their increase sends a message they didn’t want to send,” he said.

According to Quick, the increase is about $1,200, which makes UNC’s out-of-state tuition $20,824.