 The Wayne State Board of Governors approved a 4.5% increase in tuition. I would not be doing my due diligence as a representative of my peers if I did not express my concern for the increase in tuition and putting the university's financial hardships on the back of its students. At this time of record high interest rates, increased cost of living, coupled with a global mental health crisis, record high anxiety and depression rates, just to name a few that I'm sure many of us are well aware of.