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Vol. 103, Iss. 12 | Friday, October 4, 2013
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ATHLETICS
JLARC reviews athletic funding 53 percent revenue from fees BY ZACH HARDY FLAT HAT CHIEF STAFF WRITER
To help fund student services and programs such as the Student Health Center and recreational sports, a general fee of $1,921 is added to the tuition students pay each semester. However, many students may be unaware that almost $800 of this fee funds the College of William and Mary’s athletic programs. A report released in September by the Joint Legislation Audit and Review Commission, the oversight committee of the Virginia General Assembly, found an average of 12 percent of student tuition and fees for the 2012-13 school year for Virginia public universities went to athletic budgets. According to the report, 53 percent of the College’s athletic program’s revenue comes from student fees. Tribe Athletics Director Terry Driscoll said the commission used a different process to determine the percentage, and the actual percentage lies between 44 and 48 percent. The remainder of Tribe Athletics’ revenue comes from operating income — which includes ticket sales, shared revenue from the Colonial Athletic Association and sponsorships — and private funding comprised of endowments and private gifts. Driscoll said that several years ago, the Board of Visitors mandated the department raise its selfgenerating revenue to 50 percent. “We did just that,” Brown said. “Our goal is to generate as much support as we can. You will see 65 to 75 percent [coming from student fees] in other schools not in a big conference. We’re actually performing well.” Despite the fact that mandatory student athletic fees have recently drawn an increased amount of criticism, athletic funding also has increased sharply in the last several years, by an average of 43 percent or $85.9 million in just six years according to the JLARC report. The increase is partially due to several schools joining larger divisions. Longwood University, for example, became a Division 1 school in 2000 and has since increased student fees from $711 to $2,009. Old Dominion University changed this year from the Football Champion Subdivision to the Football Bowl Series, but it was able to make the change without increasing student fees. The JLARC report did not make any recommendations on the ways that athletic funding could change. Driscoll said it’s unclear from where alternate sources of funding could come.
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>> Phase 1: $52.3 million for new music building >> Phase 2: $59.5 million renovation of Phi Beta Kappa Memorial Hall >> Phase 3: $32.1 million for new building for art, art history classes BY BAILEY KIRKPATRICK FLAT HAT ASSOC. NEWS EDITOR
Since 2004, the College of William and Mary’s administration has been talking about moving the arts programs to a more central location on campus; a feasibility study took place in 2004, and yet another was submitted in 2009, but neither was approved. However, there is currently a new proposal in this year’s feasibility study for an official Arts Quarter — a proposed series of three phases, worth almost $150 million, that would move all the arts programs to the areas surrounding and including Phi Beta Kappa Memorial Hall. “Feasibility, or pre-planning, is the first of four phases that we go through to plan and construct projects,” Vice President of Administration Anna Martin said. “This stage looks at what you’d want the project to be, and what the program elements should include, such as needs See COMPLEX page 3
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A new proposal focuses on potentially adding an official Arts Quarter — a three phase series of buildings and renovations worth almost $150 million — to the College of William and Mary. The series would move arts programs to areas surrounding and including Phi Beta Kappa Memorial Hall.
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Federal government shutdown may have slight impact at College Administrators, professors discuss potential effects on grants, research opportunities if shutdown continues
As day four of the government shutdown begins, day-to-day operations at the College of William and Mary remain unchanged. Because the College receives a small percentage of federal funding and that funding is protected, the school will function normally during the government hiatus. Financial aid will continue to be funded to the school and students. According to faculty members, the biggest effect of the shutdown is the ability to procure grants. “A short-term government shutdown will have minimal impact on the university,” Director of News and Media Suzanne Seurattan said in an email. “Should the shutdown go for a protracted period of time, weeks rather than days, there would likely be some impact on our ability to apply for new
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grants and contracts.” Director of Sponsored Programs Jane Lopez says the College will not
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Should the shutdown go for a protracted period of time, weeks rather than days, there would likely be some impact on our ability to apply for new grants and contracts. — Director of News and Media Suzanne
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be able to apply for any federal grants during the shutdown. “In fact, the Feds have even taken
down their websites and closed their portals,” Lopez said. “We’ll just be in a holding pattern until they decide to
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open back up.” She says if researchers have already received funding, they can still access grants. For this reason, Lopez believes the College is currently in “good shape.” Despite current financial sources, she says all researchers at the College will be affected by the inability to apply for grants. Science departments could especially be at risk because they generally receive more money from the federal government. Over the past year, Lopez says her department has been looking for other sources of funding and notifying researchers so they can diversify their portfolios. “William and Mary is very lucky. They’ve got a great group of faculty researchers and they’re very assertive in looking for funds,” Lopez said. In terms of student aid, Director
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