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O • Ripe for the picking
N • Utility work
Spring semester classes are in full swing, and returning Student Life columnist Rashika Jaipuriar is older, wiser and back to her old stomping grounds. Page 5
Faculty members will be briefed on Thursday about utility work planned near Newhouse as part of construction for SU’s National Veterans Resource Complex. Page 3
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P • Made from scratch
Two SU student engineers spent six weeks this past summer creating a new modular design for skateboarding padding. They plan to build on their work this year. Page 9
S • Bird hunting
Syracuse took down Boston College in a lopsided affair behind efficent offensive performances throughout the lineup and 24 points from Tyus Battle. Page 16
CLIMBING COSTS SU’s tuition premium is unusually pricey, experts say
Syracuse University, as part of a $100 million academic fundraising goal, plans to implement a $3,300 tuition premium for firstyear and transfer students this fall. Students currently enrolled at SU will be grandfathered in and won’t pay the premium. Here are the details SU has released about the tuition hike so far.
university politics
Provost addresses hiring plan By Kennedy Rose asst. news editor
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“In this case, it certainly sounds like a tuition increase and they are just putting a label on what they are going to be doing with the extra money for everybody,” said Donald Heller, provost and vice t’s not unusual for major universities to rebase tuition or, in president of academic affairs at the University of San Francisco. other words, add a set amount of money into total tuition costs Including an expected 3.9 percent tuition hike, the premium on top of normal tuition increases, experts say. will increase total tuition costs next year to $50,230, said M. But some higher education experts Dolan Evanovich, the university’s senior said the tuition rebase Syracuse Univervice president for enrollment and the stusity plans to execute next fall to start dent experience, last semester. the 2018-19 academic year is unusually For the 2017-18 academic year, tuition pricey. It’s unusual for a university to was $45,150 at the university for first“Some colleges have much smaller and transfer students. pull out an amount of this size yearStudents initiatives, but $3,300 a year is quite currently enrolled at the and to designate it for a large,” said Robert Kelchen, an assistant university will be grandfathered in and professor in the department of educawon’t have to pay the extra money, uniparticular purpose. tion leadership, management and policy versity officials have said. at Seton Hall University. Despite Invest Syracuse being a fiveDonald Heller SU, as part of a five-year $100 million year plan, a spokesman for the university provost and vice president of academic fundraising pledge, plans to last September said the premium won’t academic affairs at the university of san francisco rebase tuition by adding a $3,300 premibe taken out of total tuition costs when um into total tuition costs for first-year SU reaches its $100 million funding goal. and transfer students. That money will continue to support Invest Syracuse-funded It’s not uncommon for colleges to rebase tuition in small programs, he said at the time. increments to pay for special projects such as a new academic Most private universities will fund major initiatives through building or program, an expert said, but SU’s plan is unique in tuition increases, while donors might play a small role, Kelchen said. some ways. see tuition page 6 By Daniel Strauss asst. digital editor
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Franco, Pati urge officials to allocate funding By Ryan Dunn, Sam Ogozalek and Jessi Soporito the daily orange
Leaders of Syracuse University’s Student Association have been regularly meeting with a high-ranking administrator to advocate for hiring more mental health counselors at the university. President James Franco and Vice President Angie Pati, in inter-
views with The Daily Orange, said they are urging SU to use some of the $100 million Invest Syracuse pledge for “health and wellness” initiatives this spring, or next fall, as they prepare for the end of their college careers. Those initiatives include a proposed “peer listening service” and ideas targeted at improving student living conditions on campus, such as the construction of a movie the-
ater, Franco said. During meetings with M. Dolan Evanovich, the university’s senior vice president for enrollment and the student experience, Franco and Pati both said they have all discussed Invest Syracuse. “That commitment … would be in place for the next academic year, in the fall,” Franco said of the hiring of more mental health counselors. “Anywhere we can help.”
The president also credited Joyce LaLonde, SA’s vice president from the 60th legislative session last spring, for commissioning a mental health report that detailed resources at SU. The report, published last year by the Mental Health Action Committee, was written by students. According to the report, SU had a one to 1,282 counselor-to-student ratio. In comparison, Cornell
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Colleges across the United States in recent years have increasingly relied on adjuncts to teach classes, studies show. But Syracuse University is planning to hire 100 new tenure-track faculty members as part of a push to bolster its research capabilities. The share of non-tenure track faculty at private four-year universities in the U.S. jumped from 52 to 60 percent from 2003 to 2013, Inside Higher Ed reported. SU, though, has committed to hiring the 100 new faculty members as part of $100 million academic fundraising plan Invest Syracuse. University officials will discuss this hiring plan with Chancellor Kent Syverud’s councils and college deans, but there have been no hires under the Invest Syracuse umbrella yet, SU Vice Chancellor and Provost Michele Wheatly said Monday. SU aims to hire a total of 20 professors per year over the course of five years as part of the Invest Syracuse initiative, she said.
The two prongs of Invest Syracuse really revolve around providing a worldclass experience to students... as well as advancing academic reputation, so faculty would be critical to that initiative. Michele Wheatly su vice chancellor and provost
“The two prongs of Invest Syracuse really revolve around providing a world-class experience to students … as well as advancing academic reputation, so faculty would be critical to that initiative,” Wheatly said. At the national level, adjunct and part-time professors are generally paid less than their full-time counterparts, making $20,508 on average in 2016-17. Full-time faculty members had an average annual salary of $80,095 during that same period of time, according to a report published by the American Association of University Professors. Universities often use adjunct see faculty page 4