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Pennsylvania's State Colleges to Raise Tuition by At Least 5.5 Percent.

By Bill Toland, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Feb. 24--HARRISBURG, Pa. -- Tuition at Pennsylvania's 14 state universities will rise by at least 5.5 percent next school year, and by up to 8 percent if the Legislature doesn't give the board of higher education what it wants -- a 6.9 percent, $29 million funding boost, more than double the increase that Gov. Ed Rendell has proposed.

The total outlay requested yesterday by Judy G. Hample, chancellor of the State System of Higher Education, comes to $446 million. In a budget add

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