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@PPUGlobe April 19, 2017
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alumna turned Bellevue mayor hopeful Kayla Snyder confronts the topic of fake news and states why it’s a problem Adapting and overcoming: An in-depth look at Point Park’s athletic facilities
TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS
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Provost John Pearson shakes hands with the newly appointed dean of the Rowland School of Business, Steve Tanzilli yesterday morning in the Lawrence Hall Multipurpose Room. Editor-in-Chief
Point Park’s School of Business now has a name and a Dean. Point Park President Paul Hennigan announced Tuesday morning the university is naming its school of business after
the school’s largest benefactors George and Kathleen White. In addition to naming the school, former school of business cochair Steve Tanzilli has been named the school’s first Dean. The Rowland School of Business is the first school to be named at Point Park. “It’s going to be great that
we have a name to the school,” Tanzilli said. “The White family, they’ve not just been great contributing members of the Point Park community but also the Pittsburgh Community, so to be able to acknowledge them is terrific.”
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Hennigan: increased student need drives annual tuition hikes By Emily Bennett and Alexander Popichak
Editor-Elect and Editor-in-Chief
Tuition set earlier this year for the 2017-2018 school year will increase for all students by 3.9 percent due mostly to an increased need for student financial aid, according to President Paul Hennigan. “We have been cutting expenditures here at the university for seven years now in an effort to try and reduce the revenue increase necessary to pass on in the form of a tuition increase to our students,” Hennigan said in an interview March 22. “So when we announce a 3.9 percent tuition increase, roughly half of that, and I’m not kidding, goes
straight to financial aid.” In his role as university president, Hennigan proposes the increase on a yearly basis in the form of a budget to the board of trustees, who approves tuition rates. The finance group working under the president’s office puts together the budget based on a number of factors, primarily enrollment. “In the case of the university, the revenue that we receive is 93 percent dependent on enrollment,” Hennigan said. “It’s basically tuition and fees, room and board. Those four categories make up the revenue budget. That is very common for schools in our sector of the market.” Hennigan defines Point Park’s “sector of the market”
as small, private colleges and universities in the greater Pittsburgh area. He likened the university’s budget to a larger-scale version of a home budget where tuition is the primary source of income whereas financial aid and personnel are the primary expenditures. “The amount of scholarships that we give to students is the single largest expenditure increase by far – beyond anything else: salaries, personnel, operations,” Hennigan said. “We know, or we have a good educated guess, how much money we have to award in scholarships to make it work for you to come to school.”
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Proposed cut of Federal Work Study concerns students By Robert Berger and Jordan Slobodinsky
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In President Donald Trump’s most recent budget proposal, the Federal Work Study (FWS) Program is projected to be cut in order to save funds. In the United States, more than half a million students depend on the program, and at Point Park, 240 are enrolled, according to student employment coordinator Joan Dristas. “I think that it [FWS] helps them [students] in the real world because they can be networking because so many people that come into our office are from the professional world,” school of business FWS Program Supervisor Ashley Dobransky said. “And
having them be the first face that they see, the students can start making that connection with them early.” Dobransky supervises work-study students at the school of business. Her department hires five students every year and has them help with organizing files and being secretaries in the office. Due to her hectic class schedule, sophomore Emily Rogers depends on her federal work-study job as a library aid to afford food. Rogers deals with checking books out, resolving student fines and working with concerns of the students. She depends on her paycheck of roughly $300 per month to assist her with groceries and other necessities.
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Master space plan presented to USG USG By Alex Grubbs USG Beat Writer
In February, a local architecture company reached out to student government on their collaborative plan to re-landscape the university. Now, they have an update on what their 10-year renovation plan might entail. WTW Architects Director of Planning Derek Eversmann spoke to United Student Government (USG) to give an update on where the university’s master plan was headed. “Now, we’re most away from…data gathering process,” Eversmann said. “We’re also starting to look at some big picture items.” WTW Architects, which
works with several universities in remastering their campus architecture, began working with the university to create a more consolidated university, in terms of school departments. When previously meeting with USG, the company was in its “Exploration of Options” plan, where they gathered input from both the university and student government to find out what is wanted on campus. The advisory committee that WTW met up with listed academic room space, identity, student recreation, meeting rooms and parking as its top five. The top five for student government was student housing, parking, dining facilities, student activities spaces and student recreation spaces.
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Blaine King reflects on time as leader with USG, U-View By Alex Grubbs USG Beat Writer
Four years ago when he arrived at Point Park, Blaine King stumbled across a recruiting table for the school’s student government and decided to sign up. That not only catapulted him into the fast world of school politics, including serving two years as the United Student Government (USG) president, but also as a leader in his major, serving a year as campus television station manager for U-View. With graduation only days away, the broadcast reporting major with minors in broadcast production and public relations/advertising believes the university is headed into a great direction. Despite being a Philadel-
phia native, King made the decision to come to Pittsburgh during his senior year of high school in 2013. Initially, he looked at local schools such as Temple University, and even Hofstra University in Long Island, N.Y. “I was just looking for schools, and Point Park popped on my screen,” King said. “The fact that it was Downtown was a positive fact as well.” During his first week as a freshman, he stumbled across the USG table at the Student Activities Fair, an annual showcase of clubs and organizations on campus. At that moment, King decided to put in an application to become a freshman senator and after getting 10 signatures and being elected into the position,
he started his path in student government. “I had no clue what my time in USG would become,” King said. Beginning his sophomore year, he was appointed into former President Julian Singleton’s cabinet as parliamentarian, in which he oversaw the rules committee and the USG constitution. During his stint as parliamentarian, King pushed for a dress code to create a more formal environment within USG. “There was confusion on how a senator or how USG should dress in the meetings itself,” King said. “That dress code bill was the main bill I worked on as parliamentarian.”
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Chloe Jakiela| The Globe
Blaine King, President of USG, prepares for his next chapter in life outside of USG and graduation at the end of April.
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