Columbia, Brown Hike Salary Rates, Tuition

Two more Ivy League colleges, Brown and Columbia, have announced plans to raise tuition next fall. Officials at both schools have states that the increases will be used for faculty salaries. "Competition for faculty among educational institutions is great," declared Barnaby C. Keeney, president of Brown.

Columbia's tuition will rise from $1100 to $1450; the increase at Brown is from $1250 to $1400. In addition, board rates in Providence will go up $50. With these increases, minimum pay for a full professor at Brown will be $11,000 per annum, which corresponds more closely to salary levels at other Ivy League schools.

This is Columbia's third tuition rise in the last five years. Even so, President Grayson Kirk noted that before the latest addition tuition had covered only 40.5 per cent of the cost of attendance.

The announcement evoked harsh comment from the executive committee of Columbia's student council, which issued a statement that it is "unalterably opposed to the manner in which the proposed tuition rise was presented to the student body."