A plan outlining Washington University’s aspirations for reducing energy use has largely been met with skepticism on campus.
The “Energy Reduction Committee Report” describes the university’s findings regarding past energy use, and specifically defines its goals for future reduction set forth in the Strategic Plan for Environmentally Sustainable Operations.

Undergraduate tuition at Washington University will be $39,400 for the 2010-11 academic year, a 4.2 percent increase over the 2009-2010 tuition of $37,800, the administration announced Thursday.

In the face of yet another tuition hike even as the economy slides into a recession, students will find it harder than ever to fund their Wash. U. education in the coming school year. This year, many private universities saw their pool of applicants shrink as many prospective students instead applied to public universities in [...]