College, Grad School, Radcliffe Up Annual Tuition from $525 to $600

Tuition in the College, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and Radeliffe will mount to $600 a year beginning next fall, Provost Buck announced last night.

The new tuition--a boost of $75 over the present annual rate of $525--was originally called for by Provost Buck two weeks ago and received final Corporation approval yesterday. A similar jump of $75 went into effect last fall.

The move is a "necessary part of Harvard's adjustment to normal operations after the postwar bulge of veteran expanded enrollment," Buck explained. "The present rise in tuition may well be our final increase, assuming that economic conditions are now stabilizing."

Rise Needed to Balance Budget

"Given the physical plant and educational ideals of Harvard College, we believe that the normal enrollment should be 4300," the Provost said. The slashing of swellen postwar enrollment figures necessarily requires tuition jumps if the University is to balance its budget, he explained.

Buck disclosed the administration would take steps to enlarge financial aid available for scholarship students hit by the increase.

Although the increased tuition balances the budget in terms of long-range commitments, it will not provide enough extra funds to finance new developments. The Provost recently announced a special fund-raising drive for such needs as General Education, scholarships, and a student activities center, "rather than raise tuition still higher."

The tuition increase also applies to the Division of Engineering Sciences, soon to become a part of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and also to graduate faculties in Design, Education, and Public Administration.

'Cliffe Scholarship Aid Up

The news that Radcliffe tuition would also jump from $525 to $600 immediately followed announcement of the Harvard increase, since under terms of the basic agreement between the two schools Radcliffe's tuition rate "may not be lower than that of Harvard."

The Annex also announced that it would increase scholarship awards to an amount 14 percent above the current total. President W. K. Jordan said the scholarship increase "reflects precisely the 14 per cent rise in tuition charge," and that 'Cliffe loan funds were ample to meet the increase.

Jordan also said that Radcliffe would open an additional cooperative house, If there is sufficient student demand.