Meal Plan Changes and Deadlines

• One change or cancellation in the fall
• One change in the spring; no cancellations
• No changes by phone
• Questions? E-mail Lisa_Sargent@brown.edu or call the Brown Dining office at (401) 863-3343.

Meal Plan Fine Print – 2009-2010

Please read the following items and consider your options carefully when making your meal plan decision.

• Meal Plan contracts are available to all undergraduate, graduate, and medical students. Consistent with Brown's commitment to the residential college, all resident undergraduates (except RUE students) are required to participate in a meal plan throughout their first year of residence. First-years are automatically contracted and billed for the 20-meal plan but may select any plan by making a contract change. Voluntary participation in a Brown food co-op does not fulfill the first-year meal plan requirement.
• Upper-class students are automatically contracted and billed for the meal plan they had the previous year.
• Although billed by semester, meal plan contracts are in effect for the full academic year.
• Students who wish to change, or upperclass students who wish to cancel, their meal plan contract should indicate their preference on the Meal Plan Contract Response Card mailed home in the summer and return it to Brown Dining by August 7, 2009.
• After classes begin, students without meal plan contracts can still add a meal plan at the Brown Dining main office. Weekly plan pricing is prorated according to the remaining days in the semester, but Flex plan pricing is not prorated.
• After classes begin, meal plan contracts can be canceled in person at the Brown Dining main office through September 30, 2009. No meal plan contract may be canceled after that date. There is a non-refundable fifty dollars ($50) retained for any meal plan contract canceled after September 8, 2009.
• Meal plan contracts may be changed only once each semester and a change precludes cancellation. The contract change deadline for semester I is September 30, 2009. The contract change deadline for semester II is February 17, 2010. There is a ten dollar ($10) administrative fee for a meal plan contract change after September 8, 2009.
• Any refund due from a meal plan contract change or cancellation is credited to the student's University account on a prorated basis.
• The Bursar's Office will not process meal plan contract changes or cancellations. You must contact Brown Dining directly and in person at 144 Thayer St. (back of the Refectory) for any action pertaining to meal plan contracts. Omission of board contract fees from payments to the Bursar does not constitute cancellation of a meal plan contract. Late charges will apply unless Brown Dining is contacted directly.
• Meal plan contract meals are non-transferable.
• Students on meal plans receive FlexPlus Points as part of each dining account in the amounts noted on the Meal Plan page. Additional points may be purchased throughout the academic year at the Dining Services administrative office, 144 Thayer Street. There is a 25 point minimum purchase amount and purchases may be paid by cash, check or by applying a charge to a student account.
• Unused FlexPlus Points are non-refundable and are forfeited at the end of the applicable academic year.
• Questions concerning the terms of Meal Plan Contracts may be directed to the Brown Dining office, 144 Thayer St. You can also call (401) 863-3876.

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