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The chancellor, provost and student leaders went to the Brickyard yesterday to talk about tuition. Laura Wilkinson Editor-in-Chief
The Board of Governors will meet to vote on tuition increase proposals from each school in the UNC System Feb. 10. In order for students to be more aware of the process and potential outcomes of the BOG’s decision, campus administrators and student leaders hosted a Tuition Talk Day Wednesday in the Brickyard to answer questions students may have. The Board of Governors has proposed an increase in tuition by $1,500 over the next five years, labeled a “catch-up” plan. However, UNC System President Tom Ross proposed a different, two-year plan, that would keep the increases at less than 10 percent per year. Tom Stafford, the vice chancellor for Student Affairs, attended the Tuition Talk and said the BOG is “really split on this [decision].” “They’re not going to have a unanimous vote,” Stafford said. Once the BOG has made its proposal, the General Assembly will make a final decision, and Stafford said the General Assembly will look really closely at what the BOG has done. Provost Warwick Arden said although not many students approached them in the Brickyard, he and Chancellor Randy Woodson want to have a good conversation with the students about this process. “President Ross is proposing, for N.C. State, less than a 10 percent increase. What we originally proposed was a little bit more than that. We’re supportive of President Ross’ proposal,” Arden said. Last year alone, Arden said the University lost approximately $67 million from the academic budget, though the total cut was $80 million. “If the tuition for this year for N.C. State is approved by the board, that
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Talking with N.C. State Chancellor Randy Woodson, Jason Cooper, a senior in CHASS, discusses the impact of a possible tuition increase for students attending State. Woodson spent lunch Wednesday in the Brickyard speaking to students about their thoughts and feelings about the possible increase in tuition and explaining the benefits of the increase as well.
“We are lucky that North Carowill generate about $20 million, one third of which will go toward finan- lina has been really good to higher cial aid,” Arden said. “We lost, from education. We’ll still be toward the lower end of our peer the cut, $80 million. group [in tuition That was just this rates],” Arden said. year’s loss.” Members of the A rden st ressed Occupy NCSU the University is not group, who showed trying to make up up to the talk to confor the total loss all front Woodson, disat once or put it on played less optimism the backs of the stuabout the proposed dents. increases. “It’s more about “Why aren’t peodiversifying the reple rallying in the sources,” Arden said. streets?” an unidenThe goal is to be able tified member of Octo hire more faculty cupy NCSU asked — which hasn’t hapWoodson. The same pened much in the Provost Warwick Arden student challenged last couple of years Woodson to hold a — and add more class sections in order to benefit the rally for the students in protest of the students and keep the University com- increases. “It’s not enough. They should be givpetitive.
“We are lucky that North Carolina has been really good to higher education. We’ll still be toward the lower end of our peer group.”
ing us more,” the student replied. Student Body President Chandler Thompson said Student Government wants to continue to increase the accessibility of administrators, and the Tuition Talk aided in that effort. “There are other opportunities to talk with the chancellor about tuition — or anything — at his chat for the chancellor times. These events are basically ‘on campus office hours’ for the chancellor. Students can also always email the chancellor, the provost, etc. with a question,” Thompson said. “Student Government is always looking for ideas to engage students with the chancellor, so maybe next year it can be a ‘tweet-up.’” Students who were not able to come to the Tuition Talk Day in the Brickyard can submit questions online at go.ncsu.edu/tuitionfeesquestions.
EMT class provides new job opportunities As far as I know, no others have approached them about this, and I think A certified training course at it would be very beneficial to the Unithe University is making some versity as a whole,” Cross said. students look into new career Robert Ward, sophomore in huchoices. man biology and successfully certified EMT, took the class to see if he would be interested in pursuing a medical Sarah Dashow degree. Staff Writer “I thought the class would be a good There is a series of classes in the start, an intro into medicine to see if I works at N.C. State that will provide like it,” Ward said. Ward was already certified in CPR students with advanced emergency response skills. Larry Brown, associ- before he took the class, but he was ate professor in physical education, is interested in learning more. “[We learned] basic life saving skills organizing the program in conjunction with the biological science de- ... I think everyone should be ... CPR certified,” Ward said. partment. While he has no current plans to Responding to Emergencies, First use his license, he is Responder a nd interested in workEmergency Medical ing with Cross and Technician-Basic are campus public safety the first classes in if that comes to fruithis series. Their intion. tention is to provide Blakely Bell, sophstudents with the omore in education skills needed to pass a nd ps ycholog y, the State of North took the class out of Carolina and the interest but enjoyed National Registry it enough to pursue Emergency Technithe certification. cian basic exam. “Originally I was The students who Robert Ward, sophomore in so afraid of emergenhuman biology signed up for the cy situations because class are a diverse I never knew what to g roup, b ot h i n school concentration and motivation. do, and the idea of being the one to Matt Cross, junior in business ad- handle a situation worried me. So, ministration, is required to be EMT last year I took the First Responders certified for his job as a Raleigh fire- class to gain a knowledge base and in a fighter. However, he has plans to in- sense to face my fears, and I absolutely corporate what he learned beyond his fell in love with it,” Bell said. Bell currently plans to look into the job and bring his skills to campus. “I am going to be meeting with military as a career, but she does not NCSU public safety on working with rule out continuing to work in EMS. “After my ride-alongs it definitely them to implement some sort of medical emergency notification system. sparked my interest. I am currently
Poole College of Management business class is helping University Planning and Analysis increase the response rate for the class evaluation. Students of BUS 360 class, taught by Professor Ed Weems, were split into six groups and asked to get suggestions for the class evaluation. The project that finished first was the team of Thomas Payne, Alexa Hollis, Danika Wilsher and Alex Corbett. Thomas Payne, junior in human resources, said Trey Standish, assistant director for enrollment planning, briefed them about the class evaluation system and asked them to research ways to make it better. “[Standish] said that 20 to 30 percent of class evaluations were filled out in the past couple of years, which is really bad, and before they switched to online system he said that participation was 95 percent because you would come to the class during finals, fill out a paper evaluation and hand that in with the test, so everybody did it,” Payne said. Payne also said some teams tried raising participation by giving students incentives like loyalty points, but this system doesn’t work as expected. “Some groups tried a loyalty point incentive, like if you filled out the class evaluation you would get loyalty points for game tickets. They would certainly increase the participation but wouldn’t improve the validity of the response, which would hurt the value of the response you got,” Payne said. Payne said his group focused on improving the quality of the response. According to Payne, his team’s main
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“I thought the class would be a good start, an intro into medicine to see if I like it.”
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Blakely Bell, sophomore in education and psychology, applying a traction splint on patient Michael Weese. looking into volunteer opportunities with surrounding EMT stations as well as some back home,” Bell said. The series of classes are open to anyone who can spare the credit hours. The class covers a wide variety of topics in emergency care from respiratory and cardiac emergencies
and CPR to bleeding, shock and trauma management. The lab for the class involves hands-on training, and there is also an ambulance ride-along to experience first hand how a situation might be handled.
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