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 Board of Regents meeting, I tweeted the concerns that regent Laura Brod expressed with the U's move to give in-state tuition rates to unauthorized immigrant students who live in Minnesota.

The state Legislature had set that tuition change in motion this spring when it passed the so-called

 also known as the Minnesota Prosperity Act. It gave students resident status for purposes of tuition and financial aid.

At the time, the legislation's fiscal note estimated that the U would lose about $175,000 a year because of the lower tuition. But the U had indicated it could handle the hit.

At the regents meeting, Brod said the U would be granting in-state tuition to students who are not authorized to live in the country, but 

 granting in-state tuition to those who are here legally.

She questioned the fairness of the proposal, saying it forced some students to subsidize the lower tuition of others:

Regent Patricia Simmons responded that the U already charges students different levels of tuition, and that the Dream Act students would just become part of that system.

The tuition proposal passed, but both Brod and regent John Frobenius voted against it.

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At the last University of Minnesota (UMN) Board of Regents meeting, I tweeted the concerns that regent Laura Brod expressed with the U’s move to give in-state tuition rates to unauthorized immigrant students who live in Minnesota. The state Legislature had set that tuition change in motion this spring when it passed the so-called “Minnesota…

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