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FY 2011 budget proposal discussed at Board of Trustees Meeting
By Madison Dennis
Editor-In-Chief Last Thursday, FSC administrators met with the Board of Trustees to update them on next year’s fiscal budget and the status of FSC’s ongoing capital projects. They also discussed the search for a new vice president of academic affairs and the development of a new mission statement. Senior Vice President of Administration, Finance and Techonology Dale Hamel said Governor Deval Patrick’s most recent budget proposal was “very good news.” The initial FY 2011 budget, based on the preliminary state proposal from three months ago, would have had a very significant cut in state appropriations about 7 percent, or $1.4 million,
and would have required a number of considerable reductions to FSC’s operational budget, he said. “The good news that came out yesterday from the release of the governor’s budget is the fact that he is proposing a levelfunded appropriation for higher education. “It doesn’t lend really strong information to us in terms of what number we can rely on for what we’ll see in funding,” he added, “but I’d rather see a ‘supposed’ level-funded budget for higher education than one in the amount they had provided the department of higher education three months ago.” Though Hamel said he is “very confident on most of the
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Students in a nutrition class.
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FSC graduate program operates online and internationally By Rakel Hjaltadóttir
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Beginning of the new dorm construction.
How “The Catcher in the Rye” influenced FSC students
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Assistant News Editor According to Dr. Scott Greenberg, associate vice president of academic affairs and dean of graduate and continuing education, there are 1,372 students matriculated in FSC’s graduate degree programs. This includes 832 graduate students enrolled locally and 540 enrolled in the school’s International Education Program abroad. According to Danielle Donovan, acting director of operations in the division of graduate and continuing education, most of these students are enrolled in the master of education program. In spring ’09, 413 students received master’s degrees from FSC. Two-hundred forty-seven of those were oncampus students and 166 were students at international campuses. The division of graduate and continuing education (DGCE) at FSC is expanding, with 23 different graduate degree concentrations. In addition to the FSC campus, the program has 26 international satellite campuses. FSC offers master’s degrees in areas such as business administration, nursing, counseling psychology, and food and nutrition, along with two post-baccalaureate and eight graduate certification programs. Nancy Proulx, director of professional development
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programs for educators, said, “There are over 70,000 public school teachers [in Mass.], and almost a million students. These teachers, for the most part, have a master’s degree, but in order for them to continue teaching, every five years they have to renew their license. … Here at Framingham, we’ve tried to make an effort to support our education students who are out teaching in the field, but we also want to support all Massachusetts teachers with high quality professional development.” DGCE has partnerships with many institutions offcampus and offers a wide variety of opportunities for teachers seeking to renew their licenses. According to Proulx, these partnerships serve approximately 4,000 teachers and offer over 300 courses in 23 school districts. “It’s a very big program and it’s very helpful to teachers to be able to do this.” A one-credit online professional development course for teachers is also offered as a renewal program. “These are taught by on-campus faculty and we also bring in some faculty from outside. Last year, we had about 480 students participate, and these would be teachers, school nurses, a whole variety of people,” Proulx said. According to Greenberg, there are over 1,000 stu-Continued on page 3
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