A committee studying a potential tuition increase at Kansas University will decide Thursday how additional tuition money should be spent.

The committee met Monday and added several items to its potential wish-list, including stipends for graduate research assistants, additional technology staff and support staff such as academic advisers.

Graduate teaching assistant salaries and improved classrooms were among the improvements already on the list. Central administration, committee members decided, shouldn’t be paid with tuition dollars.

Committee members will meet at 1 p.m. Thursday in the Kansas Room of the Kansas Union to decide their spending priorities.

The committee of students, faculty, staff and administration has been meeting for two months to determine a recommendation for how much tuition should increase and how that money should be spent.

The Kansas Board of Regents is scheduled to hear proposals in May, with a decision made in June.

The committee on Monday also agreed that KU should have funding that matches state-selected peer universities. Administrators have said KU is about $56 million behind the average funding of its peers.

Several representatives from the Office of Student Financial Aid told committee members they were convinced the additional 20 percent set aside in a proposed $50 million tuition increase would be enough to allow the neediest students to continue to attend KU.

“Once all the aid is awarded, we will meet all the additional unmet needs for needy students,” said Chris Johnson, the office’s associate director.

Tuition and fees for KU students currently is $2,884 per year. Tuition could as much as double in the next five years, according to some proposals being considered by administrators.