An inside look at Hong Kong’s ongoing Umbrella Revolution. - Pg. 6-8
THE HAWK THE HAWK September 24, 2014 November 5, 2014
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Mandeville addition on hold University has yet to match anonymous donation
HANNAH BARTLING ’16 Special to The Hawk
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espite an anonymous donor’s $10 million contribution to the university’s business school for a long-awaited addition to its main building, the project is on hold until the university can come up with an additional $15 million to continue, according to the school’s Dean. “The building addition is on hold for now to focus on scholarships for students,” said Joseph A. DiAngelo, Ph.D., dean of the Haub School of Business, in regards to Mandeville Hall, which is home to the undergraduate and graduate programs of the Erivan K. Haub School of Business. This shift of focus towards scholarship is part of the Magis Scholarship Initiative, a fundraising effort started by University President C. Kevin Gillespie, S.J., ’72, during his first year at the university. The construction delay, however, will allow the university to raise the funds that are needed to complete the project. “The university is still cultivating do-
Photo by Weiyi (Dawn) Cai ’15
nors,” DiAngelo said. The proposed additional wing of Mandeville Hall was intended for faculty and programs of the Haub School of Business due to its recent growth, according to DiAngelo. DiAngelo stated that when Mandeville Hall first opened, there were 1,300 undergraduate students and 50 faculty workers. Today, there are 2,600 students and 86 faculty workers. The graduate school has also increased from 600 students in 2000, DiAngelo’s first year, to 1,200 students today. “I don’t see the numbers stopping here,” stated DiAngelo. “I’m expecting an increase to 2,800 undergraduate students or more within the next one to two years.” The business school has also been funded in the past to provide means for increasing its programs due to the growing interest in the school. “Since it’s opening, there’s been the addition of Academy Insurance, a $1 million grant for a Veteran’s Program, and a $270,000 grant for Family Business,” said DiAngelo. Continued MANDEVILLE, Pg. 2
Faculty development changes: Conference travel funds reduced GARRETT MILEY ’15 Editor in Chief Faculty development funds are used to support Saint Joseph’s University faculty in their endeavors, whether that includes developing an online course or taking a sabbatical later in their career. Along with other recent developments and changes regarding the new budget at St. Joe’s for fiscal year 2015, faculty development funding has been reduced. “Faculty development funds are pretty extensive across the colleges and are provided in lots of different ways,” said Rosalind Reichard, Ph.D, interim provost. “For example, we have funds that provide for the support for faculty to develop online courses, we provide support for faculty to do research in the summer, we have sab-
baticals, which is very important to faculty development, [and] we have technology workshops. There are all kinds of faculty development money.” And while there is still money available to faculty to support their efforts, one way in which many faculty members use their funds has been reduced. Faculty members now have less money available for traveling to conferences in order to present their research or work. While the cuts were necessary on a departmental level in order to compensate for the budget shortfall of fiscal year 2014, Robert Moore, Ph.D, Faculty Senate president, says that the cuts in this area are “unfortunate” for faculty at this time. “The deans were instructed to have the chairs of the departments submit ways that the budget could be cut, and depart-
mental budgets around here are not that big anyway, and there’s only so much that can be cut and one of the lines, one of the discretionary lines, is for faculty support… It’s unfortunate, because on the one hand there’s increased pressure for faculty members to publish and to present their papers at conferences; at the same time, there are fewer resources to support them in doing this so you get things pulling in different directions,” Moore said. According to Moore, the decrease in available funds for faculty to travel to conferences could possibly prevent the university from attracting and retaining faculty members. “It could potentially be a deterrent, but my sense is that the job market out there, certainly for tenure-track, full time positions, is a difficult one and...in those
difficult circumstances you’re going to be willing to accept something a little bit less than what you might have otherwise wanted. But let’s say we’ve got two schools, Saint Joseph’s University and another one that’s roughly comparable. A person gets offers from each place, and one school says ‘We can give you this, that, and the other thing,’ and the other school says ‘Sorry, we can’t,’ well then we would lose that person, but that kind of situation I don’t think would really happen all that much.” While Moore expresses concern over the current lack of funds, Reichard addresses the issue but states that there are plans in place to work toward a long-term solution to support faculty conference travel. Continued FACULTY, Pg. 2