Veritas, Vol. 15, No. 22, February 24, 1975

              Tuition to Increase $200 to $250 per Semester
Effective next fall, the University will increase tuition for its seven undergraduate schools and college from $2,500 to $2,900 for the academic year, an increase of $200 per semester.
The $200 per semester increase will also apply to full-time students enrolled in master’s degree programs in the* Graduate School, which will take annual full-time tuition from $2,600 to $3,000 per academic year.
For those studying for doctoral degrees through the Graduate School, and for degrees through the School of Law and the School of Medicine, tuition will rise $250 per semester, or from $2,600 to $3400 for the academic year.
The new tuition schedule for un-
Hydrogen Energy Symposium Offered
More than 100 scientists from the U.S., Europe, Latin America and Japan will be in Miami March 3-5 to attend a symposium-course on Hydrogen Energy Fundamentals. The course is being presented by The Clean Energy Research Institute of the School of Engineering and Environmental Design, in cooperation with the International Association for Hydrogen Energy and the Center for Theoretical Studies.
Co-chairmen Howard P. Harrenstien, dean of SEED, and T. Nejat Veziroglu, chairman, mechanical engineering, said the symposium is to provide a foundation for, and to add technological perspective to, this emerging field for workers and researchers potentially involved in the clean-energy field.
The symposium will provide the attending scientists not only with fundamental information about hydrogen energy but also with news of developments not yet generally reported. It is free to UM faculty and students. For more information, call 284-4666.
Opening the symposium at 9 a.m. March 3 at the Deauville Hotel will be Drs. Harrenstien and Veziroglu, followed by a welcoming address by President Stanford. The keynote address will be presented by Alfred Eggers, Jr., assistant director for research applications, Energy Research and Development Administration.
Session chairmen for the three-day meeting are all from the department of
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dergraduates covers charges for full-time students enrolled for 12-18 credits in all divisions. In recent years, students enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences, School of Business Administration and School of Education were limited to 16 credit hours, paying per-credit costs above that number.
Full-time graduate tuition covers from 12 to 15 credits.
Part-time students will also pay an increased per-credit cost, varying according to the number of credit hours taken.
For those students receiving tuition grant assistance, the University will increase its scholarship funds an average of 16 percent.
In announcing the increases, President
Savings Seen
Campus-wide energy saving measures began last November already are making reductions in the total amount of kilowatt hours used by UM each month, according to Physical Plant Director Matt Borek.
In addition to the initial energy cutbacks (See Veritas, November 18, 1974), Mr. Borek and his staff are continuing to make changes to further reduce UM’s electric bill. The latest of these is the operation changes of the Ashe Building’s air conditioning system.
The air conditioning pumps and air handlers in Ashe are now being turned off at 5 p.m. and turned on again at 7 a.m. daily, and turned off during the weekends.
Other changes involve securing of the boilers and increasing the temperature of the chilled water on the first two floors. This procedure aids in conserving gas (which at present averages $190 per month for Ashe), and kilowatt hours.
The 100-watt hallway lights in the Ashe Building have been replaced with 40-watt lamps. Plant crews have removed 33 four-tube fluorescent light fixtures from the
Stanford said they were approved by the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees after a careful analysis of the severe rise in fixed and other costs since tuition was increased two years ago—costs which show few signs of abating.
Among those over which the University has no control, Dr. Stanford cited utilities, waste services and telephones, which together have leaped from $3.94 million to $5.21 million annually. The cost of electricity alone, he said, will have increased by $901,000 in the two-year span, from $1.7 million to $2.6 million, despite the University’s stringent energy conservation efforts, adopted last year.
Telephone costs, also rising, account for another $180,000 increase, from $1.78
controller’s, admissions and bursar’s offices.
Hundreds of other light fixtures have been turned off, reducing the lighting fixtures in the Otto G. Richter Library and the Cox Science Building by 40 percent. “When you consider that each fixture costs approximately $1.26 per year to operate, it begins to add up,” said Mr. Borek.
November’s energy-saving measures have become evident in the figures released by Borek’s office. For example, the air conditioning bill for the Memorial Classroom Building during November was $2,731; it was only $1,476 during December, and $963 for January. Similar savings were also apparent in the Ferre and Merrick buildings where air conditioning was turned off for the winter months.
Twenty-three additional air conditioning units were turned off in the Merrick Building the latter part of December, which also will amount to a significant savings.
“The total dollar savings for the year might not be as much as we anticipated in tight of the increasing fuel-adjustment
million to $1.96 million.
For students living on campus, residence halls accommodations will rise slightly, to cover the seven percent increase in the fixed costs of electricity and telephone service. While room costs vary, per-semester charges, for example, will rise by $27 from $388 to $415, for rooms in the 12-story twin-tower halls.
A bright note for resident students is that costs for the board plan will decrease next year, with the 20-meal plan going down from $385 to $374 per semester, and the 15-meal plan from $357 to $331 per semester. Administrators responsible for this small boon state food services for all students will remain at the same high quality.
costs, but without the energy saving measures the UM electric bill would have increased,” Mr. Borek said.
Future plans to conserve energy include adjustments of operation to the air conditioning of the L-l building and the Richter Library, and the installation of a campus-wide Honeywell Monitoring System Alpha 3000 which will, automatically provide fire detection and alarm and environmental control of major buildings.
Portions of this system will be operational within the next 60 days.
Student Trip Planned To Ecuador Field Station
Dr. Thomas Herbert, biology, will take a group of graduate and undergraduate students to the UM field station at Rio Palenque, Ecuador, for 10 days beginning February 26. They will use the station housing and research facilities and make a number of field trips, according to Dr. Leonard J. Greenfield, chairman of biology.
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