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Campus News
Tuition
At its meeting in February, the Board of Trustees approved
a 4 percent
tuition increase for the 1996-97 school year. The total annual cost
of tuition, room and board rises to $27,827. Board chairman John Freidenrich said
that the increase was the lowest rise in 30 years.
Early Admissions
Stanford has mailed
offers of admission to 568 early
decision candidates for the Class of 2000 - the first students ever to apply to
the university under an early admission process. Under the program, students who
request an early decision must commit to attending Stanford if they are accepted.
About 3,047 students applied under the program, which was recommended by a study
group in 1994 as a way to
enhance recruitment and boost the percentage of
acceptance by students offered admission.
Food Research Institute
Despite protests from its faculty, students and
alumni, the
75-year-old
Food Research Institute is scheduled to close - the first elimination
of an academic department in 20 years. The institute is one of the few in the
country that studies agricultural and economic issues in Third World countries,
and it places many of its graduates in development-related jobs in international
policy agencies and in foreign agricultural ministries. The institute will
transfer some of its programs to a new center within the Institute for
International Studies. John Shoven, dean of the School of Humanities and
Sciences, recommended the Food Research Institute closure, saying that a review
conducted by a three-member panel led him to the conclusion that “the quality of
student and faculty research would be higher in traditional disciplinary
departments.” Institute director Scott Pearson and others
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