Tuition To Go Up
THE carrying forward of its program for faculty and staff compensation has made it necessary for Dartmouth to raise its tuition, the College announced last month.
Tuition will be increased $125 a year in September 1963 and another $125 in September 1964. Dartmouth's current fee of $1550 covers tuition, health service, and other charges often billed separately at other institutions.
Board and room charges will remain at their current levels for the 1963-64 academic year. Thus the total charges - tuition, board, and average room rent - for 1963-64 will be about $2575. The associated graduate schools of medicine, engineering, and business administration are included in the tuition adjustment.
In an announcement to students and parents, the College noted that the necessities that have compelled these adjustments in charges are broadly shared by all private colleges and institutions. Many of Dartmouth's sister institutions have already announced or are planning increases in tuition and other charges to take effect during this two-year period.
The announcement also reported that the Board of Trustees has authorized a study of the desirability of a comprehensive fee to replace separate charges for the three basic costs, tuition, board and room. In terms of these total costs Dartmouth will remain in the middle range of the group of private colleges with which it is traditionally associated. The decision to combine these into one comprehensive fee, if made, would not become effective until after 1963-64.
The College will continue its longstanding policy of providing increased scholarships and loans to assure that her opportunities remain open to promising students who cannot finance their college education without assistance. Provisions will be made in extended scholarships, loans, and employment for men now in college under the financial aid program, for undergraduates not now receiving aid who cannot meet the increased costs, and for recipients of financial aid in the incoming class.
"Over many years," the announcement said, "the proportion of the cost to the College of an individual student's education covered by the prevailing tuition fee has fluctuated very closely around the 50 per cent mark. It is estimated that this proportion will be affected little, if at all, by the increased charges. The balance must be met from endowment income and current gifts, particularly the annual Alumni Fund. Indeed, the avoidance of deficits in the period immediately ahead, after taking increased tuition income into account, is predicated on substantial forward progress in the Alumni Fund, which in 1961-62 amounted to $1,215,740."
