The Western Illinois University board of trustees has approved a 4.5% increase in tuition, fees and room and board costs for students attending the Macomb campus.

With the trustees' action Friday, undergraduate students entering Western's Macomb campus in fall 2012 will be charged $8,012 in annual tuition.

Yearly room and board increases for entering students will increase $360 to $8,820 per year for double occupancy and $455 to $11,237 for single occupancy.

Fees for incoming students with a 15-hour schedule per semester will increase by $99.60 per year to $2,431.

Incoming students at the Quad Cities campus will see an all-costs increase of 5.6%.

The board also approved a recommendation to keep student health insurance fees at $738.