Volume 90 • Issue 23
April 22, 2022
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Twenty miles to Boston!
Leighah Beausoleil / THE GATEPOST (Center) Giovanella Ferraz of Piracicaba, Brazil, and other third-wave runners in Framingham during the 126th Boston Marathon held Patriot’s Day, April 18. See page 9 for a full photos spread.
Board of Trustees freezes tuition and fees for AY 2022-23 By James Barraford Staff Writer The Board of Trustees voted to extend its freeze on daytime undergraduate tuition fees and housing rates for Academic Year (AY) 2022-23 during its Jan. 23 meeting. This is the second year tuition and fees have been frozen. The decision was made to alleviate student economic stress caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and rising inflation. Dale Hamel, executive vice president, said there were many factors that led to the decision. Hamel said he hoped freezing tuition and housing would help maintain enrollment.
He said during the COVID-19 lockdown, there was a reduction in spending in areas such as food costs, training via online platforms, conferences, and travel. He said he expects the upcoming 2023 budgets to be more in line with historical costs. “On the staff side, the reductions have largely been in IT administration and finance,” Hamel said, adding there have been “selective reductions on the faculty side” in response to enrollment reductions, which are closely aligned with the majors that have seen the “most significant reductions. “The majority of the reductions came from non-personnel areas. So, we’ve been able to work closely with trust fund managers to identify ar-
Not just a profession - a passion
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eas where those non-personnel costs TUITION FREEZE pg. 5 could be reduced,” he said. Hamel said one of the Board of Trustees’ “major missions” was making higher education affordable for undergraduates. He said that affordability includes listed price, net price, quality of instruction, and co-curricular activities. During the pandemic, FSU received funding from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) and MassGrant funds, which assist the most-needy students, he said, adding once these students’ needs are met, the next lev- HALEY’S COMIC pg. 7 el of need can be assisted. Hamel said he does anticipate the PUT STUDENTS FIRST pg. 6 need to increase charges in the fol-
Opinions
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Sports
Eight professors honored with Distinguished Faculty Awards
By Caroline Gordon Arts & Features Editor By Emily Rosenberg Arts & Features Editor
By Ryan O’Connell Asst. Arts & Features Editor Kimberly Arditte Hall, College of Social Sciences and Education Prior to teaching at FSU, Kimberly Arditte Hall worked on psychological research and scholarship during her post-doctoral fellowship in women’s
mental health at the National Center for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder at the Veterans Administration Boston Healthcare System. Arditte Hall said since she began teaching at FSU, she has started her own psychology research lab called the Research and Emotion Cognition and Psychopathology Lab (RECAP). She said she is “really proud” of her lab as it is now “fully functional and currently running” She added she has two students currently working as her research assistants in the lab, and she has one student using data from the lab for their honor’s thesis.
Arditte Hall explained that all three students will be presenting original research that they have conducted in collaboration with her at the Massachusetts Undergraduate Research Conference and the Center for Excellence in Learning, Teaching, Scholarship and BASEBALL pg. 8 Service conference. In addition to the lab she started on campus, Arditte Hall said she collaborates with other hospitals and universities in the greater Boston area and nationally. She won the Excellence in Scholar- ENZO SILON SURIN pg. 11 ship Award and said she felt “really excited” when she received the news. DISTINGUISHED FACULTY pg. 12-13
Arts & Features
See DISTINGUISHED FACULTY page 12
INSIDE: OP/ED 6 • SPORTS 8 • ARTS & FEATURES 9