COMMENTARY
Everyone on campus facing new cnanenges
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Myles Brand
University President
Question to l 'niversity Brest
dent Myles Brand What are the
key issues faring the l diversity
in the 1993-94 academic year7
Individually, tin* key issues fat -
ing students focus on such
typical concerns as writing a
good term paper or passing the
midterm, paying the bills for
hooks, tuition and housing, sav
ing time to attend a concert, game
or party, or make new friends and
nurture old friendships. Collec
tively. students and all members
of the campus community face
new challenges this year as the
University changes itself because
of new financial realities.
Reduced state funding means
two things to students. First,
tuition will increase. Second,
higher education will, in turn,
require the University to make
major changes in its undergrad
uate program By next year, resi
dent student, tuition will have
increased almost fit) percent since
the inception of 1990’s ballot
Measure 5 If the m>\t phase of
Measure 5 takes place, tuition
will again rise substantially, sure
ly double-digit, during 1995-96
and 1996-97
We won’t 1m* able to halt these
tuition increases, though we may
be able to slow them down. To
do so. we need to help this state
develop a tax system to provide
stable funding for higher educa
tion and all other publicly fund
ed services The only opportuni
ty we have in the near future to
affet t the state’s tax situation is
todays sales tax referendum,
known as Measure 1 All students
registered to vote should seri
ously examine the pros and cons
of this ballot measure and make
sure they vote today
Higher tuition is the impetus
for the rapid changes in under
graduate education today’s stu
dents will experience over the
course of their college careers
Faculty and administrators real
ize that, with both residents and
non-residents paying more each
year, we must provide students
with full value for those precious
tuition dollars, and the Univer
sity must ensure that students
cun graduate in four years.
The first and most visible
change students will experience
is the effect of significant efforts
already launched by the faculty
to simplify the curriculum
requirements At the last Uni
versity Senate meeting, faculty
and students voted unanimous
Iv to eliminate cluster require
ments
The faculty is also working
hard on broad reforms aimed at
improving the quality of the aca
demic program for eat h student
For example, under proposal*
that fat uity committees are now
studying, freshmen and sopho
mores would get more small < lass
exponent es, juniors anti seniors
would hove more opportunities
to work directly with faculty on
research projects
Things will he different Stu
dents mn help themselves anti
the University suet essfully
weather these i Imllengiug times
by keeping an open mind to pro
posals for change, by participat
ing willingly and constructive
ly with the faculty in finding
ways to improve the academe
program and bv being tolerant of
temporary inconvenient es as
improvements are implemented
Although many issues will
attract our attention this year
such as underage drinking dur
ing grts>k rush, multicultural cur
riculum revision work by the
Assembly committee, and build
ing replacement units at Amazon
family housing — we i an t afford
to lose sight of the mosi funda
mental issue Wo need io work
together to make sure that
changes brought by reduced state
funding and higher tuition vv ill
make the undergraduate program
at the University bettor
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