The Campus Chronicle
Vol. XVII, Issue 19
for the Amherst campus of the University of Massachusetts
February 1, 2002

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Higher fees on trustees’ agenda

by Sarah R. Buchholz, Chronicle staff

S tudent charges for the 2002-03 academic year and the current fiscal operating budget top the agenda for the next Board of Trustees meeting on Wednesday, Feb. 6 at 11 a.m. in the Conference Dining Room at the Dartmouth campus.

      The board will also receive a report from its Development Committee, and the trustees will vote on proposed M.S. and Ph.D. programs in Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology to be offered through the Boston, Dartmouth, Lowell, and Worcester campuses.

      The board is expected to substantially increase mandatory charges for students to help meet the cost of educating them. Until the current semester, the University's average student charge had dropped 5.8 percent since FY96. Nationally, student charges at public universities rose 34 percent over the same period.

      Prior to the board meeting, the Committee of the Whole will hear a presentation on the impact of technology on instruction at the University at 9:15, Group 2 Building, Room 201.

 
    
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