Tuition Raised

ATUITION increase of $230, raising Dartmouth's fee to $1400, will go into effect next fall, it was voted by the Board of Trustees at its annual fall meeting. In announcing the increase, President Dickey related it to the need for higher faculty salaries and to the prospect of a sizable operating deficit in the fiscal year 1958-59.

"This action is essential to the strength of Dartmouth's educational program," President Dickey said. "Salary increases already in effect for 1958-59 are being financed in part by an Alumni Fund Faculty Salary Reserve, which will .be exhausted at the end of this year. Health service and other College operating expenses are up and will be substantially higher next year. After providing the equivalent of a normal Alumni Fund out of receipts from Dartmouth's present Capital Gifts Campaign, the 1958-59 budget projects a deficit in excess of $150,000. These considerations and the continuing need for further progress on the compensation front leave no alternative to a tuition increase."

President Dickey further stated that "the $1,000,000 now being provided by the College in all forms of financial aid - scholarships, loans and jobs - will be increased next year so that a Dartmouth education will always be available to qualified students who genuinely need help to supplement their own resources." Necessary adjustments will be made for the men now receiving financial aid and for others who may need assistance because of the higher tuition fee. There will also be a broadening of the existing program under which Dartmouth's tuition, board and room charges may be paid on a monthly installment basis.

In the formal printed announcement of the Trustees' action, it was stated that "the necessities which have compelled this move are shared broadly by all private colleges and universities. A number of Dartmouth's sister institutions have already announced or are now planning future tuition increases."

Princeton has announced an increase to $1450 for tuition and fees, and Yale has announced $1400. Dartmouth will make no change in room rents or board charges, which, averaging $815 for the year, will make a total basic cost of $2215 when added to the new tuition fee. The comparable Yale figure next year will be $2300, and that for Princeton will be $2255.

For the current year, the comparative charges by the Ivy colleges are as follows:

Tuition Average Room Totaland Fees and Board Charges Brown $1250 $850 $2100 Columbia 1174 850 2024 Cornell 1250 950 2200 Dartmouth 1170 815 1985 Harvard 1318 960 2278 Penn 1230 900 2130 Princeton 1215 805 2020 Yale 1250 900 2150

Dartmouth's present tuition of $1170 has been in effect since the fall of 1957. when as a combined fee it replaced tuition of $900 and a general fee of $80 for health service and other charges. Since the war Dartmouth's combined fee has risen thus: 1946 - $550; 1948 - $600; 1949 - $675; 1952 - $800; 1955 - $980; 1957 - $1170; 1959 - $1400