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Question #1: Will the overall base budget increase next year? If so, how do we plan to spend the increased revenue?


Yes. In a budget of $69.5 million, we will have approximately $3 million (4.3% of the total budget) of additional revenue in next year's budget. This, of course, is after we take out scholarships and grants awarded by Grinnell College. That is, we are not treating these scholarships and grants as an expense. You can find more information about financial aid in Question #2 , Question #3,
Question #4, and Question #5. (Question #5 explains the tuition discount rate.)

Almost $2.0 million of the increased revenue will be used to support the 5.5% increase in salaries for continuing faculty and a 3.5% increase in the staff salary pool.

Introduction
Question #2: What are the biggest pieces of next year's budget?
Question #3: Why does our comprehensive fee go up so fast? Has it been going up faster, more slowly, or the same as other schools?
Question #4: I have heard that there are some big changes in financial aid next year. Can you explain what is happening?
Question #5: Can you explain again what the tuition discount rate is? I can never keep straight whether improving this number means making it higher or lower....
Question #6: When does our fiscal year begin and end?
Question #7: Does next year's budget assume any change in the size of the student body?
Question #8: How have allocations to the functional areas of the College changed over time?
Question #9: Will all these new facilities that we are building leave us with less money in the base budget?
Question #10: Who is on the Budget Steering Committee and why?
Appendix (FY 2006 Budget as we present it)

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