Spring Break
$121.12 tuition hike unnecessary
Issue date: 2/8/07 Section: OPINION
Recently, Daily reporter Aaron Bracamontes reported that the NT administration is planning to increase tuition by a soul-crushing $121.12. The reasoning behind this is partly, to support staff and faculty raises, said Vice President of Finance Phil Diebel. We feel that this is actually a fair use of money. If faculty members are paid more, it might attract other quality professors and encourage quality ones that are already here to stay.
However, is a tuition raise really necessary to do this? How much money does the university throw away on things like designing new logos or ordering custom, malfunctioning computer systems that could be better spent on supporting our faculty and staff, who for the most part are good, hardworking folks?
All the more confusing is that the money raised from the tuition hike will be going to scholarships, according to the minutes from the last Board of Regents meeting. As wonderful as scholarships are, only a relative few students are benefiting from them. If this is true, it sounds as if NT is trying to act like a weird Robin Hood, stealing from average students and giving to the needy or the exemplary. What ends up happening is that the students in the middle lose more and more of their refund checks, which is what many students use to get by.
As unfair as this is, where is the outrage? Where is the line of protestors outside the Hurley Administration Building? The answer is that they are at work. The students hit the hardest by these sorts of policy changes are those that have the least amount of time to do anything about it. Those people are at work right after class, trying desperately to bridge the gap between what student life demands of them and what the misers at NT can toss them from their coin purses.
However, is a tuition raise really necessary to do this? How much money does the university throw away on things like designing new logos or ordering custom, malfunctioning computer systems that could be better spent on supporting our faculty and staff, who for the most part are good, hardworking folks?
All the more confusing is that the money raised from the tuition hike will be going to scholarships, according to the minutes from the last Board of Regents meeting. As wonderful as scholarships are, only a relative few students are benefiting from them. If this is true, it sounds as if NT is trying to act like a weird Robin Hood, stealing from average students and giving to the needy or the exemplary. What ends up happening is that the students in the middle lose more and more of their refund checks, which is what many students use to get by.
As unfair as this is, where is the outrage? Where is the line of protestors outside the Hurley Administration Building? The answer is that they are at work. The students hit the hardest by these sorts of policy changes are those that have the least amount of time to do anything about it. Those people are at work right after class, trying desperately to bridge the gap between what student life demands of them and what the misers at NT can toss them from their coin purses.
Be the first to comment on this story