The Board of Trustees approved the smallest tuition increase in 33 years at their Winter term meeting last weekend in Hanover.
The 3.5% increase for the 1999-2000 school year marks the fifth consecutive decline in the rate at which the trustees raised tuition, and is the smallest increase since 1966. The 1998-1999 tuition increase was 3.9%.
"We've been working for nearly a decade in trying to keep tuition costs down, which we've been doing very well. I haven't heard of any other Ivy whose tuition increment is less than ours," Trustee Kate Stith-Cabranes '73 said.
In addition, trustees met with students three times this past weekend. Trustees discussed issues such as the D-Plan, expanding student facilities and social, residential and academic life with students, Stith-Cabranes said.
"It's really great to listen and talk to students about their ideas and concerns. I always come away feeling so proud of Dartmouth," Stith-Cabranes said.
Thursday night, Susan Wright, wife of College President Jim Wright, hosted an informal gathering at her home for the three female trustees and female upperclass students where they discussed post-graduate life and gender related topics.
A dinner on Friday evening at the Collis Center and a Saturday morning breakfast at the Hanover Inn, for which students signed up, included all the trustees with a variety of undergraduate and graduate student leaders.
