Tuition, Fees Increase 4.7 Percent at Brown

By The Providence Journal, R.I.

Mar. 1–PROVIDENCE — Brown University’s corporation has increased tuition and fees for the 2006-07 academic year by 4.7 percent, to a total of $43,754 a year for undergraduates. Tuition for graduate students will rise 5 percent, to $33,888 a year, the corporation announced this weekend at its winter meeting.

Several factors contributed to the increases, including rising energy costs and the increasing costs of construction materials, health care and insurance, Brown officials said in a statement.

The corporation, which meets three times a year, approved a university budget of $664 million for the coming fiscal year, which represents an 8.2-percent increase over this year.

The new budget includes financing for 15 to 25 new faculty members, 5-percent faculty raises and $18,000-a-year stipends for graduate students, financial aid for transfer students, and additional financing for need-blind admissions. Freshmen entering Brown this fall will be the fourth class admitted on a need-blind basis.

Several gifts to the university of more than $1 million were announced, including:

–$4 million to endow and establish a professorship in the history department from a Brown emeritus trustee and parent;

–$3 million from the Walter Annenberg Foundation to promote innovation in small schools and develop school leadership at the Annenberg Institute;

–$2.5 million from a trustee and parent to be spent on various initiatives, including $1 million for the Nelson Fitness Center; $750,000 for financial aid; and $750,000 for the Brown annual fund;

–$2.2 million from an alumnus and parent for an endowed research fund in environmental sciences and environmental studies;

–$2 million from parents for a creative arts building

In addition, a new professorship was established, the Joukowsky Family Professorship in Archaeology.

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