College Charges Raised

Increases in the comprehensive tuition charge and in room and board rates for the academic year 1968-69 were voted by the Dartmouth Trustees last month. Tuition, increased to $2075 for the current year, will go up another $125 to $2200. Board will be increased $20 a year and the average room rent $30 a year.

In taking this action the Trustees also made provision for scholarships and loans for students currently getting financial aid, for others who will not be able to meet the higher costs, and for scholarship men in next fall's entering class. The higher charges will apply to students in the three professional schools and to graduate students, as well as to undergraduates.

Dartmouth's total charges for tuition (including fees), room, and board next year will be $3275, which will not move it out of the middle range of the private colleges with which it is traditionally associated. Most of these other institutions have recently announced substantial increases in tuition and other fees. Some of the comparative totals will be: Princeton $3310 (up $200), Bowdoin $3300 (up $300), Yale $3300 (up $300), Dartmouth $3275 (up $175), Williams $3270 (up $250), Columbia $3269 (up $260), Amherst $3260 (up $300), Brown $3230 (up $150), and Wesleyan $3220 (up $250). Figures for Cornell, Harvard, and Pennsylvania have not been announced.

Dartmouth's increases in room and board were partly the result of higher town taxes. New Hampshire is the only state in the nation in which college dormitories and dining halls are taxed like noneducational real estate.