The Purdue University Board of Trustees will vote on a proposal Friday in West Lafayette to freeze tuition on in-state students, but raise rates for out-of-state and international students, in select majors.

At Purdue Northwest’s Hammond and Westville campuses, a release said the proposal includes a 3% per-year tuition increase for non-resident and international students.

The increases at Northwest will be used to fund the operating budget, including faculty and staff salaries and benefits, scholarships, supplies, services, and repair and rehabilitation.

On the main campus for new and continuous international students, the undergraduate fee would increase by $500, a professional master’s fee would increase $500 and the graduate fee would be $45 higher.

For out-of-state and international students enrolling for the first time in 2026 or later, the fees will increase by $1,000 for an undergraduate engineering fee; computer/data science and artificial intelligence undergraduate fee and for a business undergraduate fee.

Purdue said the fees would offset increased costs for specialized technology, equipment, facilities and/or have unique professional accreditation requirements changing.

In-state students on the main campus under the fiscal proposal would see no changes in rates for 2025-26 and 2026-27.

Meanwhile at Indiana University, trustees will hold a tuition forum at 12:15 p.m. June 12 prior to the start of the 3:30 regular meeting in Bloomington where the proposal will be considered.

In line with Gov. Mike Braun’s recommendation, the Indiana Commission for Higher Education recommended tuition and mandatory fees at all seven of Indiana’s public colleges and universities remain frozen for the 2025–27 academic years.

The freeze amounts to a 5% budget decrease for the universities due to the $2.4 billion budget shortfall.

On Monday, Braun announced three new appointments to the IU Board of Trustees.

They include Sage Steele, a former ESPN anchor who left in 2023 after she was disciplined for remarks opposing the Walt Disney Company’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate. She hosts a YouTube show and podcast and lives in Florida.

She graduated from IU-Bloomington in 1995.

James Bopp, of Terre Haute, is a well-known conservative attorney who opposed welcoming cities ordinances in Gary and East Chicago.

He also championed anti-abortion legislation.

Bopp received an undergraduate degree from IU in 1970. In 2021, Bopp represented 8 IU students who sued the school because of its COVID-19 vaccine mandate, but a federal court rejected their request for an injunction.

Brian Eagle, of Fishers, is an Indianapolis attorney, author and wealth strategy consultant. He’s a 1986 IU graduate with an accounting degree.

Braun also reappointed Quinn Buckner, a former NBA player, and an executive with the Indianapolis Pacers. He became a trustee in 2016.

“I am confident that these appointees, who are all Indiana University alumni, will serve in the best interest of the university and will help guide IU back in the right direction as a premier flagship university in our state,” Braun said.

Carole Carlson is a freelance reporter for the Post-Tribune.