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Board considers tuition raise for 2016
University struggles to maintain elite status on current budget BY ABIGALE SVOBODA STAFF WRITER
The Board of Trustee’s committee on Audit, Budget, F inance and Facilities reviewed the effects of increasing the tuition for the 2016 fi scal year. The official vote on whether to decrease or increase tuition will take place in January 2015. Monday’s meeting began with a presentation from Christophe Pierre, vice president for academic affairs, who stated that tuition is a “key instrument in the University budget.” Pierre said there will be an estimated $35 million increase in the budget in 2016, partly due to an increase in tuition revenues. If the University does not increase tuition for the 2016 fi scal year, there will still be a $16 million revenue, he said.
This is because graduating seniors are paying lower tuition rates than incoming freshman will pay, even without an increase. Currently, the University tuition is “frozen” for four years so students will pay the same rate during their entire time at the University. Pierre said this limits the University’s ability to react to funding cha nges. Every time tuition is decided, the University is making a four year commitment, something he suggested the University considers when setting new tuition rates. Pierre said key factors in determining tuition include, protecting access and affordability of higher education, sustaining and enhancing the quality of education and recognizing fi nancial challenges. He
said the University is aware of tuition costs keeping students from attending. However, the University needs more money in order to maintain the same quality of education and resources. Additionally, the University and state a re faci ng fi na ncia l uncertainty, especially i n regards to state appropriations for higher education. Pierre said approving tuition for the 2016 fi scal year by January 2015 will help the University in both fi nancial planning, as well as in recruiting students. State appropriation has continued to decrease, now at $643 million, while tuition and fees continue to increase, now at $1098 million total. This yea r, i n-state undergraduate tuition totals to $25,000, including
College of Medicine business plan revealed If accepted, first class would start in fall of 2017
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The proposed College of Medicine could be up and running in three years, according to Chancellor Phyllis Wise. In a video conference Monday with the Board of Trustee’s University Healthcare System com-
mittee, Wise presented a new business plan for the proposed college, stating it still needs $135 million from donors and $100 million from Carle Health System. The plan lays out how the college would be funded leading to fiscal year 20242025. The proposed college aims to reinvent healthcare through engineering and technological advances in research, as well as the healthcare education of physicians.
“We’re in an exciting place, where medicine, engineering and technology are converging quickly, and where the shape of regional, national, and global healthcare is being totally redefi ned,” Wise said. The outlined budget of the college demands major financial commitments from Carle, the University’s partner that will aid in fi nancially supporting and overseeing the college.
room and board. Tuition and fees exceed $15,000. In January 2014, tuition
“Because tuition is
high, and the fees are as well, a lot students cannot readily afford higher education at the U of I.” CHRISTOPHE PIERRE VICE PRESIDENT FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS
was increased 1.7 percent. “Because tuition is high, and the fees are as well, a lot of students cannot readily afford higher education at the U of I and we need to increase significantly in financial
aid,” Pierre said. Currently, $10,000 is the most need-based aid students have received from Monetary Award P rogram gra nts a nd Pell grants, he said. In tota l, Un iversit y students receive about $344 million in various forms of aid. Roughly 15 percent of students pay nearly no tuition or fees. Alternatively, about 60 percent of University students pay full tuition and fees, Pierre said. Tuition has not increased since 2013 for Purdue University, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Minnesota, University of Nebraska, University of Iowa and Ohio State University. Many of the schools have approved, or are in the process of approving, a 0 percent increase for its
2016 fiscal year, according to the presentation. “Our tuition is significantly higher than those of our geographic peers and we are indeed losi ng ma ny I l li nois students to them,” Pierre said. Despite an increase in the number of applications, and number of admitted students, the number of enrolled students has lay stagnant since 2007. As a result, the University yield has decreased from 48 percent to 33 percent in the past seven years. Pierre attributed this partly to the increased ease of college applications now, stating people apply to more schools. He also said cost is really the main reason that students eventually go to other
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ISS committee created to discuss College of Medicine development Students given chance to have their voices heard
BY ANDREW NOWAK STAFF WRITER
Students will have the rare opportunity to have their voices heard on the creation of a new college that will be the fi rst of its kind. The Illinois Student Senate has created an ad hoc committee to get student input as the proposal
on the University’s College of Medicine develops. Matt Hill, vice president external of ISS, originally proposed the committee after noticing student interest and talking to colleagues. “We are going to be reviewing any proposal and plans that the University and Carle put forward, getting student opinions on it, and then sort of formulating a report that encompasses the student perspective
on the creation of the College of Medicine,” Hill said. Last Wednesday, all 10 students who applied to become members of the committee were selected. The committee is composed of six students from LAS (including Hill), two from Engineering, two from AHS and one graduate student in Education. Kendal Hellman, senior in AHS and student senator,
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Since Urbana’s Market at the Square ended on Nov. 1, Pandamonium Doughnuts will move its food truck to Goodwin Avenue outside Krannert Center for the Performing Arts from Tuesday to Saturday. The company will sell a variety of flavors from 7:30 a.m. until they run out of doughnuts. The food truck frequently sells out early due to high demand at Urbana’s Market at the Square. James Kyung, founder and owner of Pandemonium, said in September that he considers his doughnuts to be a work of art. “When I approach my food and design my doughnuts, I try to make them look very pretty and very appealing to the eye,” he said. “So I guess that in itself is art, so you can kind of look at it that way.”
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Champaign soup kitchen relocates Daily Bread leaves church space in favor of new private property BY LIYUAN YANG STAFF WRITER
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A volunteer serves lunch to a community member at 132 W. Church St. in Champaign on Saturday.
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In Champaign County, 222 people were homeless as of Jan. 28, according to the Champaign County Continuum of Care. There are kitchens and shelters throughout the community that help the homeless population, including the Daily Bread Soup Kitchen, which is in the process of moving its location to downtown Champaign. The nonprofit, volunteerrun organization is moving from the New Covenant
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Fellowship at 124 W. White St. to its own location on 118 N. First St. The new location is the former Emerald City Lounge building. The transition will take eight months to complete and will cost about $400,000, which is entirely funded by private donations, said Ellen McDowell, president emeritus of the Daily Bread. The Daily Bread has five crews that volunteer their time from Monday to Friday. Jeff Carns, Daily Bread weekend crew chief,
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has volunteered at the organization since it opened in 2009. He said the move is good for the Daily Bread. “We are just two blocks away from the main terminal, so wherever they are in Champaign-Urbana, people can get on a bus and get to us easily,” Carns said. The Daily Bread currently rents the lobby of New Covenant Fellowship where it serves lunch five days a week from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. for 200 to 300 community members, according to McDowell.
The organization would like to offer lunch throughout the week, but the church needs the space on the weekend, which is one of the reasons it is moving, she said. “... Although the church has been very good and we have gotten along well with the church, we want to have our own autonomy; we want to make our own decisions. That’s difficult when you are renting from someone,” McDowell said. McDowell added the cost
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