The LSU Board of Supervisors voted Friday to increase student fees by $354 for the next academic year.

Students can expect to see increases in the student excellence fee, which will be used to enhance other academic support and campus-wide operations to ensure adequate services for all students, according to the board’s minutes and agenda.

The student fee increase is expected to generate $9.6 million gross revenue for the next academic year.

The move comes one day after legislators and Gov. John Bel Edwards, approved a budget that fully the Taylor Opportunity Program for Students for the fall semester, but will only provide 40 percent of the funding for the spring..

In the second special session, Edwards asked lawmakers to raise $600 million in revenue to make up for the shortfall, but the legislature passed a budget that only included $263 million in revenue increases.

With TOPS being frontloaded for the fall, Edwards said students may have to pay up to $2,500 to pay for tuition. After the second special session ended on Thursday night, Edwards said leaving students with the responsibility of coming up with that difference is “problematic”.

“[To] leave kids with as much as $2,500 toward their tuition in the second semester is really “problematic,” Edwards said at a press conference on Thursday night. “Normal avenues for student financial assistance are not available at that time of the year. Not the best policy.”

Edwards and lawmakers spent the past four months trying to balance a billion dollar deficit for the current fiscal year and a two billion deficit for the fiscal year that begins on July 1, which was the largest in Louisiana’s history.