Our Voice
Times are tough. We all know it.
The state Board of Regents has announced that six mandatory furlough days must be completed before June 31, 2010.
Bottom line: professors and administrators are taking a forced pay cut and students are getting a devalued education. There will be six days where faculty and the administration will have a wasted opportunity to earn money and we as students will have six less days of instruction, regardless of the fact that we paid our tuition in full.
But can we really blame the system? GCSU probably shouldn’t have implemented the four-year tuition freeze. Costs have been going up over the past four years so students have been paying about the same each semester, other than a fee thrown in here or there.
Many public school systems throughout Georgia have required furlough days as well. Fayette County, for example, built a $10.56 million school that can house 600 students. Budgets for salaries and constructions are divided before they reach the individual school boards, who make the budgets for their particular school.
Perhaps a better way to solve the lack of staff salary funds is to ration funds at a higher level in the University System of Georgia so that school administrators can allocate more for salaries and less for construction.
Over the past year, students have been spending less and less on groceries, entertainment and the like. It just makes sense that our school has to follow suit. Administration isn’t gaining any popularity from this, but we feel the Board of Regents has made the right call on this one.
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ColonnadeLetters@gcsu.edu.
Posted by Colonnade Archives
on Sep 4 2009. Filed under Our Voice.
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