— Benefits and Insurances — Respond to rapidly escalating costs for health care, and property and liability insurances, plus increases in retirement and social security costs.
— Facilities — Provide for facilities cost increases, including support for deferred maintenance projects, maintenance and operation of new facilities, and fuel and utilities cost increases.
— Faculty and Staff Salary Adjustments — Maintain competitive faculty and staff salaries.
— Strategic Academic Initiatives — Address the most critical strategic academic initiatives.
— The University is requesting an increase of $30,872,000. Of this amount, $24,721,000 is requested for the Educational and General line item, $3,633,000 for Penn College, and $2,518,000 for other line items.
— If the Commonwealth is able to provide these appropriation increases, tuition rates at Penn State's 20 undergraduate campuses, including the Pennsylvania College of Technology, will be frozen at 2005-06 levels. The tuition rate increase for Pennsylvania resident students at the University Park campus will be 5.9 percent.