IU recaps the end of the 2025 budget session
The 2025 budget session of the Indiana General Assembly legislative session concluded April 25, four calendar days before state lawmakers’ statutory Tuesday, April 29, deadline. Only 243 of the 1,229 bills filed in the beginning of the session passed both chambers. Of the 708 House bills filed, 20% passed. Of the 521 Senate bills, 20% passed. Indiana Gov. Mike Braun signed into law all bills sent to his desk.
Throughout the session, Indiana University engaged with state lawmakers to shape meaningful conversations about the university’s commitments to making higher education accessible to Hoosiers and driving the state’s economy through life-changing research and innovation.
Several provisions in the fiscal year 2025-27 budget bill will impact the university and its work. The April 25 edition of the State Update includes a summary of relevant legislation.
The university will continue to work over the coming weeks to understand the full impact of state legislation and ensure compliance with new laws. As part of these efforts, IU leadership will engage directly with campus leaders, in addition to academic and faculty governance leaders.
IU will continue to focus on its key priorities of championing student success, shaping research and innovation that improve the lives of Hoosiers, and strengthening communities across the state.
Legislators will now be turning their attention to interim study committees later this summer and fall in preparation for the 2026 short session.
Indiana Commission for Higher Education sets non-binding tuition and mandatory fee increase targets
The Indiana Commission for Higher Education (CHE) approved its biennial non-binding tuition and mandatory fee increase targets for state educational institutions on Thursday at its bi-monthly meeting. CHE, at Governor Braun’s request, recommended institutions hold tuition and mandatory fees flat for resident undergraduate students for the next biennium.
As a part of the recommendation, CHE stated the following: “Out of all state entities, our higher education institutions are in the best financial position to weather these cuts. Institutions should address the reductions in the same way as other state entities: refocusing on their core missions and then finding efficiencies in accomplishing those, eliminating redundancies, and identifying ways to streamline the delivery of higher education.”
By statute (IC 21-14-2-12.5), CHE is charged with recommending “non-binding tuition and mandatory fee increase targets for each state educational institution.” The Commission shall make recommendations no later than 30 days after the enactment of a state budget.
State educational institutions must set tuition and fee rates no later than 60 days after the enactment of the state budget. Institutions must hold a public hearing no later than 30 days after the Commission sets non-binding tuition and fee targets. In addition, institutions must submit to the State Budget Committee a report outlining the financial and budgetary factors considered by the board of trustees in determining the amount of the increase.
Tuition and fee rates are to be set by the institutions for the next two academic years. The State Budget Committee, upon review of the Commission’s non-binding tuition and fee targets and reports submitted by the state educational institutions regarding tuition and fee rates, may request that an institution appear at a future public meeting of the state budget committee concerning the report.
The IU Board of Trustees will hold IU’s Tuition Forum prior to the start of the June 12 meeting at IU Bloomington.