Spring Break
Regents vote on $100 fall fee on Tuesday
CAROLYN CRIST
Issue date: 4/10/09 Section: News
On Tuesday University System of Georgia Chancellor Erroll Davis will recommend a continuation of the $100 special spring fee for the fall semester. It will be recommended to extend into spring 2010 as well.
Student Government Association elect executives teleconferenced with Davis and his staff on Friday afternoon about the upcoming Regents meeting.
"We as students should be as prepared as possible to face any financial burdens that affect our education, and that is why we, as the Student Government Association, are making it available as soon as we learn it," Cameron Secord, vice president elect of SGA, said to The Red & Black on behalf of the executive members. "We will continue to keep you updated as new information becomes available."
The Regents can approve the recommendation or possibly increase or decrease the fee amount. To make the decision, the group is suspending a policy that requires student fee increases to first be approved by a committee composed of 50 percent students.
An agenda for the Tuesday meeting also suggests a suspension of the "Fixed for Four" policy, which was started in 2006 and guarantees the same tuition for a student's four years of college.
Student Government Association elect executives teleconferenced with Davis and his staff on Friday afternoon about the upcoming Regents meeting.
"We as students should be as prepared as possible to face any financial burdens that affect our education, and that is why we, as the Student Government Association, are making it available as soon as we learn it," Cameron Secord, vice president elect of SGA, said to The Red & Black on behalf of the executive members. "We will continue to keep you updated as new information becomes available."
The Regents can approve the recommendation or possibly increase or decrease the fee amount. To make the decision, the group is suspending a policy that requires student fee increases to first be approved by a committee composed of 50 percent students.
An agenda for the Tuesday meeting also suggests a suspension of the "Fixed for Four" policy, which was started in 2006 and guarantees the same tuition for a student's four years of college.
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posted 4/11/09 @ 11:01 AM EST
Forcing normal students to cough up more cash because the regents are too incompetent to create and abide by a sensible budget is a great injustice. Suggestions to save money: Cancel ridiculous events like concerts by mediocre third-rate "hip-hop" artists. (Continued…)
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