TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 2002
NEWS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN = 3A
By Molly Gise
Kansan staff writer
Refurbished lecture rooms in Wescoe online enrollment and better graduate teaching assistant salaries are some of the improvements that will be paid for with money from the tuition increase.
Provost David Shulenburger released a plan yesterday for how the University of Kansas will use tuition money for enhancements campuswide.
"We have to get the money out and allocated now if we're going to spend it during the year in a way that will make a difference so students feel it." Shulenburger said.
The University plans to spend money raised by the increase in three ways, Shulenburger said:
An increase in the University's maintenance budget of $3,353,000. The increase will help cover budget shortfalls.
■ Need-based financial aid, mostly in the form of grants the University handed out this summer to offset the tuition increase, which will cost $1,720,000.
- Upgrades to campus facilities, pay increases for graduate teaching and research assistants
Budgeted uses of tuition money for enhancements:
Technology improvements $2.4 million
GTA salary increase $1 million
GRA benefits $750,000
Added instructional support $250,000
Classroom improvements $500,000
Library improvements $800,000
Other operating expenses $1.5 million
New faculty start-up $1 million
Minority retention programs $150,000
International student services $80,000
Enrollment reserve $170,000
Total $8.6 million
The University has already started some improvements. Members of the Graduate Teaching Assistants Coalition ratified yesterday a three-year contract between GTAs and the University that includes the increased salaries paid for by the tuition increase.
and other improvements; totaling $8.6 million.
Some classroom improvements have begun, including the refurbishing of the two lecture rooms in Wescoe Hall, Shulenburger said. Improvements to these classrooms will include repainted and reupholstered seats, new carpet and replaced ceiling tiles.
About $2.4 million will be used for technology improvements including creating a student portal and starting up online enrollment
Caroline Ramsay, Plainville junior, said tuition money should be spent in ways that directly benefit students.
"If they're going to spend it on stuff that will improve classes for us, then go ahead." Ramsay said. "As long as it's for something good."
Deans are working with faculty and students on a plan to turn in to the provost Nov. 1 for how they would improve their schools with a 15 percent increase in faculty.
Shulenburger said he hoped to add 100 tenure-track faculty members over the next five years.
"Five years from now, everyone will realize this has really moved us a lot closer to that top-25 status." Shulenburger said.
Krisin Colahan-Sederstrom, Wichita junior, said she didn't understand how increasing tuition makes the University more prestigious.
"Why do we have to be more expensive to be a better school?" she asked.
Contact Gise at mgise@kansan.com. This story was edited by Andrew Vaupel.
By Aaron Passman
Kansan staff reporter
Forum to discuss Biblical tradition
Ecumenical Christian Ministries will hold its first Faith Forum, "A Liberal Take on Christianity," at 8:30 p.m. tonight. The forums will take place at ECM, 1204 Oread St., every Tuesday night and will be facilitated by Thad Holcombe, director.
"We take the Bible seriously but not literally." Holcombe said. "We're asking — how does one look at the Biblical tradition and how is this relevant in our own lives?"
Holcombe said the first three weeks would focus on examining the Biblical tradition before branching off into areas to be determined by the group's participants.
Mike Lee, Lawrence senior, and Lindsey Burch, Overland Park senior, began the Faith Forum last year.
"We wanted somewhere to talk about it in a liberal setting and an open forum," Burch said. "We try to look at its individual application to people's lives."
Burch said the forum grew through the semester to a regular group of about ten people.
ECM is a campus Christian group open to members of any faith, as well as being inclusive to homosexuals. The Forums meet for an hour and include dessert. The forums will end each week in common prayer.
Pickup changes help recyclers
Contact Passman at apassman@kansan.com. This story was edited by Melissa Shuman.
By Justin Henning
Kansan staff writer
We all know it's a good idea to recycle, but sometimes it easier to throw the trash away.
The recycling program at the University of Kansas has tweaked its current pickup system for the residence halls to make the option more lucrative. Recyclables will be picked up from each floor instead of from one central location from each building.
Victoria Silva, director of the Department of Environmental Stewardship, said the change came about because of a lack of regular student volunteers for each floor.
"There were not enough constant student volunteers to do recycling for each floor," she said.
The recycling volunteers for each floor were expected to take the materials to a central location in the building and sort it for one large pickup. Silva said the pickups did not happen regularly.
"Some buildings just didn't have enough recycling to make a weekly pickup worth our time," Silva said.
With floor to floor pickups, the responsibility to the student volunteers will lessen but not disappear.
Diana Robertson, associate director for student housing, said the program still needed students to sort and rinse the recycling before it was collected.
Robertson said resident assistants and signs in each of the buildings would help educate students about correct recycling procedures.
dent assistant in Hashinger Hall, is looking forward to the change.
Clint Pfalser, Caney senior and resi
"It's a far improvement over going from building to building," he said. "It will be a lot easier for each individual floor to do recycling and it will be easier to get my floor involved in recycling."
Daisy Hill and Oliver Hall's recycling will be collected every Monday. GSP-Corbin and the scholarship halls will have their recycling picked up Thursdays.
"We want to be able to provide this service for them,"Silva said."Students just need to be able to pitch in because it helps when the program runs smoothly."
Contact Henning at jhenng@kansan.com. This story was edited by Katie Teske.
ZACH STRAUS/KANSAM
KU Recycling workers sort through a box of recyclables to make sure everything is rinsed and in its correct bin. KU Recycling is now making rounds on each floor of the dorms.
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