University Daily Kansan / Thursday, August 29, 1991
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Board of Regents decision lets out-of-state resident assistants receive in-state rates
By Stephanie Patrick Kansan staff writer
Out-of-state resident assistants will have a little extra money in their pockets this semester thanks to a Board of Regents decision.
The Regents increased the number of job benefits for RAS this semester. For the 38 out-of-state RAS, the 50 in-state they are eligible for in-station tuition.
The decision also allows all RAs, instate or out-of-state, to pay an hourly rate of $85 with campus fees for all classes under 12 credit hours.
Linda Mullens, assistant vice chancellor of student affairs, said the students received staff rates because the
job of RA was considered a student monthly position.
"The change was made because of the time commitment required of the resident assistors," she said.
Resident assistants first heard of the tuition break during training sessions two weeks ago.
For Gertlebr Sellars Pearson Hall RA Jennifer Campbell, Schaumburg, III, sen. the tuition break means that you can care about her tuition next semester.
"It was a huge financial relief," said Campbell, who also receives free room and board and a salary as part of her job benefits.
She plans to use the money she saves to buy a computer.
"I think I have some options now," she said.
Joseph R. Pearson Hall RA Chris Spurgin, St. Louis senior, said the change in tuition also helped students who were not resident assistants.
Spurgin is an architecture student who already qualified for in-state tuition through the Kansas and Missouri Reciprocity Agreement.
The agreement allows Missouri architecture students to pay in-state tuition at KU, while Kansas residents at the University of Missouri pay in-state tuition to study dentistry.
Lois Clark, assistant dean of architecture, said the new tuition rates for RAs allowed the department to give
three tuition waivers to other students.
"It is nice someone else is benefiting from the tuition break." Spurgain said.
"My dad says he is going to buy a car with the money," she said.
In-state student Marty Helget, Ellis senior, has the same idea.
Michelle Rosen, St. Louis junior and RA at McCollum Hall, said her parents were the ones benefiting most from the tuition break.
"I think it is great," the Joseph R. Pearson Hall RA said. "I have a lot of out-of-state students they work in extra money) means when we go out, they can buy now."
The Associated Press
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — When a new year of lessons began this week, students in Little Rock schools got something besides books and assignment
They also received complete insurance coverage for drug and alcohol abuse.
City and school officials worked with the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Arkansas insurance company to provide $70,000 for the 28,000 students in the district.
"It provides our youngsters with an opportunity to receive help," said Jo Evelyn Elston, the district's director of pupil services.
The district was unable to address abuse of drugs and alcohol in the schools in the past because it did not have programs to get children into programs, she said.
The student insurance program, called "Fight Back! Insure the Children," will provide services for alcohol and drug abusers.
These services range from education and early intervention to intensive treatment. They also include
Student insurance program helps make drug treatment accessible
family-therapy coverage.
One student was referred to the program Monday, the first day of school, Elston said.
The referral came to the district from a community agency where the student that soared from an agency that has agreed to participate in the program
"The agency that referred (him) could not have provided the service."
Among other treatment, the student was recommended for group sessions three times a week for up to eight weeks. Elston said.
The school district hired three people on Monday to assess and reiterate
In April, city and school district officials announced a drive to raise money to pay for the program. Parents
were asked to donate $10 a child.
But the effort fell short. The district raised only $68,728 and almost failed to meet Monday's deadline for the first round of the NCAA basketball Cross and Blue Shield of Arkansas.
The premium was paid with help from an $80,000 interest-free loan from amBRO. Interest is payable in three equal installments.
Now that school has started, she expects parent-teacher associations to help raise additional money, she said.
"The summer was really a bad time to start," said Frankie Sarver, executive director of the Fighting Back Initiative.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield is charging no administrative fee for the coverage. a representative said.
The school program grew out of the work of Little Rock Fighting back, a.
The foundation announced in February 1989 the availability of $2.4 million in grants for cities to establish pharmacies and pharmacy claims to combat drug and alcohol abuse.
The 15 cities that received grant money are developing a variety of plans that they will submit to the foundation for further grant money.
Paul Jellinek, senior program officer for the foundation, said Little Rock's student insurance program may be unique.
"I don't know of any other place around the country that's doing this," Jellinek said yesterday.
"The absence of insurance for these services has been a major roadblock for the development of services for children and adolescents around the country," he said.
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