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Oklahoma State regents OK $1B budget, tuition hike - Boston.com

Oklahoma State regents OK $1B budget, tuition hike - Boston.com

Oklahoma State regents OK $1B budget, tuition hike

By Jeff Latzke
Associated Press Writer / June 18, 2010
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OKLAHOMA CITY—The $1 billion budget approved Friday for Oklahoma State University's next fiscal year includes tuition hikes, no raises and money for a new pilot program that will provide 125 students with free iPads to test out as a classroom tool.
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The university will pay slightly less than the $499 retail value to provide Apple Inc.'s new tablet computer to students in five communications and business courses at the Stillwater and Tulsa campuses beginning this fall.
"You'll see this all over America in higher education," university president Burns Hargis said. "(The University of Oklahoma's) going to be doing these kinds of


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