A new academic year begins at the end of August. Minnesota college freshmen headed to one Iowa school will be able to pay in-state tuition.

The Iowa Board of Regents recently approved a plan to offer that discount to new University of Northern Iowa undergraduates from six neighboring states.   

The university is in Cedar Falls, which is about a two-hour drive from Rochester. Its tuition deal for students across the Iowa border is one of many strategies that institutions have used as enrollment has dipped around the country.      

Vanessa Miller is a higher education reporter for the Iowa newspaper, The Gazette. She joined MPR News guest host Chris Farrell to talk about her reporting on the tuition deal.