Actually Central's tuition hike on students is the smallest of any other public University in Michigan. It is a 3.47% increase which being a student still sucks but it is much lower than Northern Michigan and U of M which are both just shy of 7%. While I support the Faculty Association, the Administration did treat the student fairly well with this modest tuition increase when they could have raised it up to 7.1% and not lost funding from the state. You can read the article I read here http://annarbor.com/news/central-michigan-university-approves-lowest-tuition-increase-in-state-so-far/