By Kelly Heyboer/ The Star-Ledger
NEW BRUNSWICK — Rutgers University students will learn today what they will pay for tuition, room and board for the upcoming school year.
The Rutgers Board of Governors is scheduled to meet at 1:30 p.m. in New Brunswick to set tuition in what could be a contentious meeting. Student activists are trying to mobilize classmates to call for a tuition freeze at the meeting.
University officials traditionally do not reveal the size of the proposed tuition increase until shortly before the 11-member board votes on the hike. But campus officials have said this year’s increase will be nowhere near the 10-percent hikes of previous years.
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