Budget forecast scheduled to be released next week
In-state students could see a tuition increase of 9.6 to 20.6 percent
Makenna Bishop
Issue date: 5/12/09 Section: News
If this is the case, he said the university would take action to ensure that students' paths to graduation are minimally affected.
In addition to the tuition increases, between 10 and 30 percent of the university's financial aid will be withheld.
The budget problems that OSU currently faces were discussed in the most recent joint session of ASOSU and Faculty Senates. The board of the Faculty Senate proposed three standards that it plans to keep in mind while grappling with the current deficit.
Those principles include maximizing students' learning and success, maximizing the retention of talented faculty in order to help advance student success and using the strategic plan as a guide for current and future decisions and opportunities.
D.J. Zissen, a junior in human development and family science, currently has a job on campus through work-study. He said he feels that his position is safe and doesn't think other students should be overly worried about their own work-study jobs.
Zissen said he knows that the administration at OSU is doing everything it can to ensure that those jobs are available to students.
"I think that [job cuts] are a necessary evil," Zissen said. He added that he didn't think the administration likes cutting full-time employees, but sometimes situations like this happen.
Zissen said he realizes that in addition to the potential job cuts, there will be an increase in tuition that he said will be hard on all students.
"Even though it is a necessity, I wish there was another way to get the money without increasing tuition or laying off more professional staff," Zissen said.
Ravi Madhira, a senior in biochemistry and biophysics, wondered why the university simply couldn't offer a pay decrease as opposed to firing so many employees.
Randhawa said that the OSU administration has adopted a voluntary 4.6 percent salary reduction for this term. He said that while this step, along with others, is helpful, they do not fully address the complete change that will be realized in the coming months.
The Provost's office welcomes feedback to its strategic plan and encourages all students and faculty to visit its website for more information or to leave suggestions of more cost-saving methods.
Stay tuned to The Daily Barometer in the coming weeks for an update on the economic situation at OSU as the budget forecast is announced.
Makenna Bishop, senior reporter
news@dailybarometer.com, 737-2231
In addition to the tuition increases, between 10 and 30 percent of the university's financial aid will be withheld.
The budget problems that OSU currently faces were discussed in the most recent joint session of ASOSU and Faculty Senates. The board of the Faculty Senate proposed three standards that it plans to keep in mind while grappling with the current deficit.
Those principles include maximizing students' learning and success, maximizing the retention of talented faculty in order to help advance student success and using the strategic plan as a guide for current and future decisions and opportunities.
D.J. Zissen, a junior in human development and family science, currently has a job on campus through work-study. He said he feels that his position is safe and doesn't think other students should be overly worried about their own work-study jobs.
Zissen said he knows that the administration at OSU is doing everything it can to ensure that those jobs are available to students.
"I think that [job cuts] are a necessary evil," Zissen said. He added that he didn't think the administration likes cutting full-time employees, but sometimes situations like this happen.
Zissen said he realizes that in addition to the potential job cuts, there will be an increase in tuition that he said will be hard on all students.
"Even though it is a necessity, I wish there was another way to get the money without increasing tuition or laying off more professional staff," Zissen said.
Ravi Madhira, a senior in biochemistry and biophysics, wondered why the university simply couldn't offer a pay decrease as opposed to firing so many employees.
Randhawa said that the OSU administration has adopted a voluntary 4.6 percent salary reduction for this term. He said that while this step, along with others, is helpful, they do not fully address the complete change that will be realized in the coming months.
The Provost's office welcomes feedback to its strategic plan and encourages all students and faculty to visit its website for more information or to leave suggestions of more cost-saving methods.
Stay tuned to The Daily Barometer in the coming weeks for an update on the economic situation at OSU as the budget forecast is announced.
Makenna Bishop, senior reporter
news@dailybarometer.com, 737-2231
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