Penn State students and families will find out how much more they’ll have to pay to go to school at time of declining state support when university trustees vote on tuition and fees Friday.

Trustees are meeting at Penn State Lehigh Valley in the Allentown area. Their agenda includes voting on 2011-12 budget following a 19 percent drop in state support. President Graham Spanier has said a number of times that the university won’t make up for all of that loss by putting the burden “on the backs of our students.”

“We expect to have a tuition increase that is what you might see in a normal year,” Spanier said recently, “not a substantial increase of the sort that you’re going to see at universities around the country this year.”

In recent years, tuition increases for in-state undergraduates at Penn State have averaged about 5.5 percent. If trustees keep the tuition increase for the upcoming school year close to that, they’ll be bucking the trend seen at other schools.

Earlier this month, University of Pittsburgh trustees approved an 8.5 percent increase for in-state students. Temple bumped its tuition for in-state students 10 percent. According to the university, tuition increases there have averaged 6 percent in the past 10 years.

At Penn State, the state cuts add up to $68 million when Penn College and Penn State Hershey are included. The university had a total operating budget of $4 billion in 2010-11, including Penn State Hershey and Penn College. The general funds budget was $1.7 billion.

Penn State spokeswoman Lisa Powers said the university has already identified $60 million in savings. That includes $30 million saved by a salary freeze this year that affects all non-unionized employees and another $30 million in internal cost-cutting.