He said any shift in policy would come after University President Mary Sue Coleman and other top administrators reviewed the task force report submitted to the regents in March.

“There has been no change in our policy at this point but certainly folks at the highest levels of the University administration have been looking very carefully at that task force report,” he said. “(We are) trying to determine what the next step for the University might be.”

Fitzgerald said the University would continue work on the issue over the summer.

“It is a complicated problem that we are looking very closely at and that is what we will continue to work on,” Fitzgerald said. “Everybody expects that they will be moving ahead as quickly as they possibly can.”

Even if the University administration makes a positive recommendation to the Regents, the issue is still legally and politically complicated. Although the Regents can determine tuition rates autonomous of the state, there is still the possibility of injunctive lawsuits to reverse any decision by the Regents.

However, the argument for tuition equality received political support in April, when state Rep. Jeff Irwin (D–Ann Arbor) proposed House Bill 4617, which calls for public universities to extend in-state tuition equality to undocumented students.