Erickson said he will ask the Penn State trustees in July to increase tuition for Pennsylvania residents by 2.9 percent at the main campus in State College and 1.9 percent at branch campuses. He said he also would recommend a "very moderate" increase in room and board charges.
The increase would be the lowest since 1967-68, said university spokeswoman Lisa Powers.
He made his comments as he and leaders of the other state-supported and state-owned universities joined Gov. Tom Corbett at the Capitol to thank him and lawmakers for rescinding Corbett's proposal to reduce their state aid by 20 to 30 percent in the fiscal year that starts Sunday. That would have been on the heels of a nearly 20 percent reduction this year.
"This will help to keep the quality as well as the cost of education affordable for so many of our Pennsylvania residents," Erickson said.
Earlier this month, a report by the U.S. Department of Education ranked Penn State as having the highest in-state tuition of any four-year public university during the 2010-11 school year.
