CHUL Told of $500 College Fee Hike; Group Defers Housing Proposals

Undergraduate tuition and room and board costs for next year will rise $500, from $5930 to $6430, Dean Rosovsky said yesterday at a meeting of the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life.

The increases for tuition, room and board are $350, $50 and $100 respectively, Rosovsky said, adding that he thought these figures were in keeping with rising costs.

The tuition increase for the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences will also be $350

Although the increases are not final and have not been officially approved by the Corporation, Robert E. Kaufmann '62, assistant dean of the Faculty for financial affairs, said he did not think any of the figures would change by more than $10.

The Corporation will discuss the increases in February, Kaufmann said, but will not vote on them until early May.

"I don't think anybody's happy about the tuition increase," he said, but he added that "relative to the rest of the country we're doing well."

Harvard's tuition increase is about 9 per cent this year, while other schools "are hovering around 10 per cent," he said.

Tuition at the College has increased every year since 1969, Kaufmann said.

The tuition increase, along with a reduction in Faculty programs and operations, may allow the Faculty to balance its budget in 1976-77 for the first time in seven years, he said. Tuition makes up over one third of the Faculty's income.

Undergraduate tuition and room and board increased $580 for the 1975-76 academic year largely because of energy costs and a Faculty deficit in 1974-75 of $2 million, Kaufmann said.

The increases for 1976-77 are less than this year because "some of the energy costs have abated" and food costs have gone down somewhat, he said.

Although Harvard has not yet "articulated a financial aid packet" for next year, Kaufmann said that students on scholarship will receive more money.

"There is no question that resources available to the financial aid office will be substantially larger" next year, Kaufmann said.