Some legislators and a state fiscal agency report say the universities failed to factor increases to tuition for the current summer semester, pushing the real increase beyond the cap. According to the agency's report, Michigan State University students will be paying 9.4 percent more in tuition than the year before, while Wayne State University's increase will be 8.4 percent. The increase, some legislators say, appears to violate a provision in the state budget which placed a 7.1 percent cap on raising tuition. A legislative committee met Thursday morning to discuss the issue and hear from MSU officials and some of its students. WSU did not send anyone to Lansing, and released a written statement later in the day. Matt Lockwood, a spokesman for WSU, said in a written statement: \"The state budget director has asked all Michigan public universities for certification that their tuition will not increase by more than 7.1 percent in the coming school year. We have begun that process and are confident that we are in compliance with the state\'s tuition restraint incentive.\"

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