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December 18, 1999 Trustees approving housing fees for 2000-2001WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue undergraduate students living and eating in university residences will pay an average of $262 more during the next academic year. The Board of Trustees approved the new rates today (Saturday 12/18). The board also approved spending for additional work on the new Visual and Performing Arts Center, the restoration of the University Hall roof, expansion of the Animal Holding Facility and a replacement water chiller at Wade Utility Plant. Under the new room and board rate schedule, undergraduate students living in university residences will have a variety of options, but the average cost will be $5,042 for the year for a room and 15 meals a week, an increase of 5.5 percent, or $262. Graduate student housing will increase 3 percent, and housing for students with families living in the Purdue Village will go up 2 percent. Kenneth Burns, executive vice president and treasurer, said 1.5 percent of the rate increase will fund major renovations over the next 10 years, including the renovation of Cary Quadrangle that begins in 2000 and the consolidation of University Residences food service operations. Burns noted that University Residences does not receive any state funds or general student revenues and that renovation costs must be paid by students living in university housing. Purdue's housing and food service fees rank sixth among Big Ten universities, Burns said, and that ranking should not change. Students living in undergraduate housing again will be able to choose from three meal plans: 20, 15 or 10 meals a week. Purdue began offering three meal plans in the fall of 1996, said Marvis Boscher, director of University Residences. The average undergraduate room with the 20-meal-per-week plan will cost $5,450 for the year. Under the 15-meal-per-week plan, the rate will average $5,042. Under the 10-meal-per-week plan, the rate will average $4,802. The rates will go into effect Aug. 7. All undergraduate rates include telephone with call-waiting and voice mail, cable television hookup in each room, and access to Purdue's central computing network through computer labs in each hall, Boscher said. Effective Aug. 7, rates for the Hawkins and Young graduate houses will increase 3 percent, to an average of $436 per month. The rate includes utilities, telephone with call-waiting and voice mail, cable television hookup, and air conditioning. Starting July 1, the average monthly rent for Purdue Village will be $463.60, an increase of 2 percent. Utilities, telephone with call-waiting and voice mail, and cable television hookup are included. Graduate students and those in Purdue Village do not have contracts with the university that include meals. With about 10,000 undergraduate students living in 11 traditional housing units and one apartment complex, Purdue has one of the largest residence hall systems in the country. In other business, the trustees approved: • An additional $5 million for the $20.7 million Creative and Performing Arts Building project. The money will be used to build an 18,000-square-foot theater shell that will eventually replace the Experimental Theatre in the basement of Stewart Center. The arts facility, to be built at Marsteller and Wood streets, will house programs in art and design, theater, music and dance. The new facility will replace the five Creative Arts Buildings near the intersection of Stadium and Northwestern avenues, which were built as "temporary" structures in the late 1940s. • Spending $1.1 million to restore and upgrade the roof on University Hall, the oldest building on campus. The work will restore the entire roof that was damaged during a wind storm on Dec. 6, 1998. • Spending $2.4 million to expand and renovate the Animal Holding Facility, south of Lynn Hall. The expansion will allow the School of Veterinary Medicine to meet current animal care regulations. • A $2.2 million contract for the replacement of a water chiller unit at the Wade Utility Plant. • The offering of a doctoral degree by the Department of Restaurant, Hotel, Institutional and Tourism Management starting in August. By that time, the department will have changed its name to Hospitality and Tourism Management. The degree offering still needs approval by the Indiana Higher Education Commission. • Two name changes at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne. The Department of Fine Arts will become the Department of Visual Arts, while the School of Fine and Performing Arts will become the School of Visual and Performing Arts. Sources: Kenneth Burns, (765) 494-9705 Marvis Boscher, (765) 494-1000 Writer: J. Michael Willis, (765) 494-0371; mwillis@purdue.edu Purdue News Service: (765) 494-2096; purduenews@purdue.edu Other source: Robert Ringel, executive vice president for academic affairs, (765) 494-9709
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