Bok Responds

To the Editors of the Crimson:

I am writing to correct the unfortunate impression in Monday's Crimson that the Corporation did not carefully review the tuition increases for the College. In fact, the Corporation devoted a great deal of time to the subject of tuitions and other charges during the fall. At the Corporation's direction, a detailed study was prepared which appears as Special Report #1 in the Financial Report to the Board of Overseers for 1976-77. On the basis of this study, the Corporation met with Dean Rosovsky in November for an extended discussion of general guidelines that reflect our desire to keep increases in the total cost of attending the College from exceeding over a period of years the increases in per capita disposable personal income.

In keeping with established practices. the task of developing precise increases in tuition and other charges was left to Dean Rosovsky pursuant to the broad responsibility given to Harvard deans to prepare their budgets and manage the resources of their respective faculties. Since Dean Rosovsky's proposed increases were consistent with the overall policies discussed by the Corporation in the fall, and with anticipated changes at other comparable institutions, the proposals were approved without extended debate. President Bok