Higher fees on trustees agenda
by Sarah
R. Buchholz, Chronicle staff
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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