It will cost freshman a bit more to attend the University of Illinois.
Earlier today, University of Illinois administrators voted to raise tuition costs for in-state freshmen for the first time in six years.
The university says the tuition hike will strengthen efforts to attract and retain faculty across the University of Illinois system.
Tuition will go up 1.8 percent at the Urbana-Champaign campus to just over 12-thousand a year.
And just as the university is talking about raising tuition, the board of trustees also agreed to boost president Tim Killeen's salary from 600-thousand, to 835-thousand dollars.