UNIVERSITY PRESS FAU’s student magazine
JANUARY 15, 2013 | VOL. 15 #16
What less professors means for you.
Online Education: A cheap alternative to traditional classes.
FAU BY THE
P. 6
How your tuition is being spent. P. 16
P. 10
Students talk money losses. p. 28
NUMBERS SPECIAL ISSUE
How you can save up to $800 on textbooks. P. 20
FAU Baseball vs. FAU Football: Who really reigns supreme? P. 24
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The Staff EDITOR-IN-CHIEF - Regina Kaza MANAGING EDITOR - Lulu Ramadan ART DIRECTOR - Chase Kennedy BUSINESS MANAGER - Michael Chandeck WEB EDITOR - John Kramer WEB DESIGNER - Phaedra Blaize COPY DESK CHIEF - Emily Mitchell-Cetti NEWS EDITOR - Lore Khazem SPORTS EDITOR - Rolando Rosa FEATURES EDITOR - Emily Bloch PHOTO EDITOR - Michelle Friswell SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHERS Christine Capozziello, Ryan Murphy COPY EDITORS Chris Hamann, Alyssa Ruane, Amanda Rubio STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER - Melissa Landolfa SENIOR EDITOR - Ryan Cortes SENIOR REPORTER - Dylan Bouscher DISTRIBUTION MANAGER - Lore Khazem CONTRIBUTOR - Bryant Eng ADVISERS Dan Sweeney Michael Koretzky
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The effects LESS faculty members are having on your education. By Lulu Ramadan
How an additional fee for online courses still makes it more affordable than traditional education. By Bryant Eng
Find out why FAU students are paying more in tuition than ever before.
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By Lulu Ramadan
there is a cheaper way to get your textbooks. By UP Staff
why FAU football gets more fans, more money, and less titles than FAU baseball. By Rolando Rosa
What students have to say about state budget cuts. By Lore Khazem
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FAU BY THE NUMBERS How budget cuts have affected the value of students’ educations these past 5 years
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Lulu Ramadan Special Issue Editor
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$77 million. Remember that number, because it affects the quality of your classes, your tuition costs, everything. Over the past 5 years, FAU lost $77 million in state funding, according to VP for Financial Affairs Dennis Crudele at the Board of Trustees meeting on June 19. But it’s your tuition that skyrocketed and your education that suffered because of it. We’ve scoured years of data, facts, and figures to bring you the details of how budget cuts have hurt your pocketbooks, and more importantly, your education. Because of the $77 million cut from FAU’s budget, the university is no longer offering classes on two campuses: the Treasure Coast campus and the Dania Beach campus. Faculty members protested to keep almost 800 summer courses from being cut from students. Course sections were canceled and class sizes grew. And that’s just the beginning. From the shrinking number of faculty members to the additional fees coming straight out of your wallets, these budget cuts have left some of you with mounds of debt and no increase in the value of your education to prove it. And we’re not the only ones. All Florida state universities have experienced budget cuts and tuition hikes in the last 5 years. In this academic year alone, a $300 million decrease in the budget for higher education was approved. Since then, your tuition has increased the maximum 15 percent. This wasn’t the first time and it won’t be the last. You’ve seen tuition increase a total of 60 percent in the last four years alone. This 2012-13 academic year is a first for FAU: the first year that FAU is collecting more money in tuition than it is receiving in state funding. And this is the UP’s first infographic issue in which we break FAU down by the numbers in easy-to-read graphics, so you can see exactly where your money is going. And it all begins with one number — $77 million.
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F A C U LT Y
FADING FACULTY Decreasing number of faculty members means fewer courses to choose from and bigger class sizes for students
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Lulu Ramadan, Managing Editor
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We were only able to hire 33 new instructors [spring semester] due to budget cuts, where ordinarily we would hire 50 or 60.
ake room. Your classes just got a little more packed. You have less professors and less classes to choose from. These are just a few of the effects that the statewide budget cuts have had on faculty and class sizes at FAU.
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Provost Brenda Claiborne, at the Dec. 13 Board of Trustees meeting.
The decline in the number of available classes comes with the closure of classes on two campuses to absorb budget cuts: the Dania Beach and the Treasure Coast campuses.
“I’m an ocean engineering major and I feel pretty terrible because they closed down my campus at Seatech.”
A total of
113 classes
Dustin Porak, senior ocean engineering major. Photo by Ryan Murphy
were scheduled on these campuses in the 2010-11 school year.
total number of enrolled students at fau 2008 2009
27,021
25,000
791
27,707
The number of faculty members in total
28,394
2010 2011 2012
on all colleges and all campuses has been falling from 809 members 5 years ago, with
29,313
the exception of a slight increase since the 2010-11 academic year.
30,038 26,500
The decline in the number of faculty members and scheduled classes also coincides with a steady increase in the number of students attending FAU.
28,000
29,500
31,000
Source: FAU IEA Instructional Faculty by Campus, College & Department
Source: FAU IEA Headcount Enrollment by Gender & Ethnicity
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The rise in the number of students and decline in the number of faculty members and scheduled classes results in a higher student to faculty ratio, meaning the average class now has more students than it did 5 years ago.
5,218
The number of scheduled classes on all campuses during the fall 2012 semester, 101 less than the fall 2010 semester. Source: FAU IEA Scheduled Classes By Campus
The average number of students to one instructor in the 2011-12 academic year was
‘06 - ‘07 ‘07 - ‘08 ‘08 - ‘09 ‘09 - ‘10 ‘10 - ‘11
20-to-1 Increase of student to instructor ratio over the last 5 years. Source: FAU IEA Fact Books
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The average number of students in undergraduate lectures during the 2011-12 and 201011 academic year. This raised 2 students per class since the 2009-10 academic year. Source: FAU IEA Fact Books Although the number of instructional faculty members has been going down, the average salary for instructional faculty members has been steadily increasing. Faculty members now make about
$10,000 more annually than they did 8 years ago.
Source: FAU IEA Instructional Faculty Salaries by Gender, Rank & Tenure
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72,000 70,000 68,000 66,000 64,000 62,000 60,000
‘03-‘04 ‘04-‘05 ‘05-‘06 ‘06-‘07 ‘07-‘08 ‘08-‘09 ‘10-‘09 ‘10-‘11
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ONLINE
THE eFUTURE Online education is a cheap alternative to in-class education, and the number of students enrolling in online courses is on the rise
Bryant Eng, Contributor s college tuition, room and board, and transportation costs at FAU continue to grow, many students are finding online education as a cheaper and more accessible alternative to classroom education. Students who enroll in an online course pay $37 per credit hour in additional fees, which students
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enrolled in only traditional courses do not pay. Still, the eLearning fee is far less than the estimated cost of a full time student’s room and board — about $11,353 per year — or the cost of transportation for a commuting student — about $3,207 per year — according to the Department of Institutional Effectiveness and Analysis.
= 1,000 students
Trying to keep pace with the student body’s desire for online curriculum is FAU’s Center for eLearning (CeL) — the department that oversees the design of online curriculum and the training of faculty — which was established in April of 2011. While many students at FAU may be familiar with for-profit online educators such as the University of Phoenix or Kaplan, the CeL is taking a different approach to creating online courses and curriculum, according to Assistant Provost for eLearning Monica Orozco. Rather than design course templates for online classes, the CeL trains faculty and staff to craft their own online courses that allow professors to determine how material will be presented as a part of the Faculty Development Program established in 2011. Since the establishment of the CeL, more than 10 percent of the university’s faculty and staff have been trained to create their own online curriculum.
Of the 28,394 students enrolled at FAU during the fall of 2010,
7,321
Trained Faculty
students, or about a quarter of the student body, were enrolled in online courses. Since then, the number of students enrolled has increased by
2,950.
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faculty members in total have been trained since fall 2011.
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The CeL recently published a profile of its Faculty Development Program in the Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, or JALN, an academic journal highly regarded in the eLearning community . Orozco and other members of the CeL faculty wrote the article, which indicated that the CeL plans to continue expanding.
Headed by Orozco, the CeL spearheaded initiatives that led to the growth of FAU’s online education programs. There were 686 different online course sections offered in 2011, an increase of 95 more than the year before, or about 16 percent. = 100 classes
“Based on the success of the [Faculty Development Program] and the training needs of the university, additional programs are now being planned and developed and additional instructional designers are being hired.” Assistant Provost Monica Orozco in her article in the Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks.
“Because online classes are cheaper, I think that might be an incentive for people to focus.” Ryan Chrichton, junior chemistry major
The expansion coincides with the steady increase in the number of students enrolling in online courses each academic year. During the 2011-12 academic year, 10,217 students enrolled in at least a single online course, up from 7,872 students during the 2010-11 academic year, according to the FAU CeL.
Photos by Melissa Landolfa
“The online class I’m taking is more expensive because it’s video. I like being in class more because it forces me to focus on my studies.” Austin Gingerich, senior economics and finance major Online course enrollment at Florida Atlantic University increased in 2012, reaching a total of 22,345 total enrollments. This was 5,391 more than in 2011, an approximately 32 percent increase.
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Tuition at FAU has been dramatically increasing each year due to budget cuts, and much of what you’re paying is additional fees Lulu Ramadan, Managing Editor
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ou’re coughing up more cash in tuition than ever before, but the quality of your education isn’t increasing to prove it. Five years ago, FAU students paid nearly half of what you pay now in tuition for more professors, more available class sections, and more open campuses. Public universities are mainly
The source of the increase
funded by two sources: state funding and student tuition. Over the course of the past 10 years, state funding for Florida universities has decreased close to 20 percent, according to the Florida Board of Governors’s fact sheet that tracks funding for state universities. Historically, state funding has made up the majority of FAU’s
operating budget. Following the decrease in funding, tuition at FAU had to increase 60 percent in the last four years to make up for the money that was cut. For the first time in history, the majority of FAU’s operating budget is now composed of the money you are paying out of pocket in tuition rather than state funding.
Each year, the Florida Board of Governors (BOG) — the 17-member body that governs all Florida public universities — has approved tuition hikes for all major universities in the state. FAU’s tuition has risen the maximum 15 percent for the past four years in a row. All of the state universities have seen rising tuition and fees, but even with the consistent tuition hikes over the past few years, FAU still has the fourth lowest tuition of the 11 state universities.
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For the past 20 years, tuition has increased about 4.5 percent steadily each academic year, until 2008. Beginning in 2008, tuition increased an average of 13.5 percent per year. Source: Florida Board of Governors Tuition and Fees, FAU IEA 20122013 Factbook
Tuition was set at
The average FAU undergraduate student pays about
$199.54
$6,000
per credit hour (PCH) for the 2012-13 academic year. Of the total $199.54, about 30 percent are additional fees alone.
per academic year in tuition. That’s just for the 2012-13 academic year, according to the Controller’s Office.
Additional fees
Capital improvement fee Activity & Service Fee Athletic Fee Student Health fee Technology Fee
CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT FEE The Capital Improvement Fee is a statewide fee that goes towards construction projects on campus. For the past five years, the fee remained consistent at $2.44 PCH in all of the state universities. The fee nearly tripled in the 2012-13 academic year. Although students are paying triple what they used to in Capital Improvement Fees this year alone, $17.5 million was collected and the Board of Trustees approved use of this money for the following projects on December 13th:
2007-2008 Renovation and expansion of the Boca Student Union:
2008-2009 2009-2010
$14 million
2010-2011 Renovation of the Breezeway roof:
2011-2012
$2.5 million
2012-2013 *All averages are based on a full-time course load (30 credit hours per year) for in-state, undergraduate students. Source: FAU Controller's Office
Installation of lights in the recreational fields on the Jupiter campus:
$200k
Activity & Service Fee The university collects the A&S Fees and Student Government (SG) distributes the funds. The A&S Fee funds various school sponsored clubs, organizations, activities, and events on campus, and the paid positions in SG, responsible for allocating the funds.
The average student pays
$369.60
The renovations cost the average student
$202.80
in Capital Improvement Fees this academic year.
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Health Fee
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Athletic Fee FAU’s Athletic Fee is the second highest in the entire state, according to the BOG. The Athletic Fee is now set at $17.27 PCH for the 2012-13 academic year and stands as the most expensive fee. FAU uses the Athletic Fee to fund scholarships for FAU’s athletes and team travel expenses. More recently, a 5 percent increase was applied to the Athletic Fee to pay off the debt acquired following the construction of the FAU Football Stadium, according to the Board of Trustees’ Athletics Fee Proposal last May.
The Health Fee is used to fund Student Health Services (SHS) on campus. SHS includes a Medical Clinic, Women’s Clinic, and Dental Clinic, all with certified physicians. Many of the services provided have additional fees, but come at reduced prices.
It costs
$9.6 million
to operate these facilities.
game officials, medical insurance, and summer school for athletes
team travel
9% 14%
35%
salaries and benefits for coaching staff
The average student pays
42%
scholarships for athletes’ tuition
This 2012-13 academic year, a total of
$10.7 million
was collected in Athletic Fees. The average student pays
$518.10
annually in Athletic Fees. Sources: BOT Athletic Fee Proposal, FAU 2012-12 Operating Budget
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76 percent of students don’t use them.
Source: Student Health Services Annual Report 2011-2012
$282.60
annually in Health Fees.
Technology Fee The Technology Fee is a statewide fee that was established in the 2009-2010 academic year. The Technology Fee Oversight Committee was established to oversee the use of the money generated from this fee. The money is generally used to purchase or enhance technology resources on campus, like purchasing computers and funding E-Classrooms. Students, faculty, and on-campus organizations can submit proposals for the use of the fee.
The average student pays
$154.80
annually in Technology Fees. Although tuition and fees have been rising, a recent press conference was held in Tallahassee on Dec. 6 by representatives from the state universities to campaign restoring funding for higher education. They propose returning $118 million of the $300 million cut statewide to higher education funding. If the campaign is successful, students in Florida may not see a tuition increase again this coming academic year.
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CROOKSMART The college textbook industry is bringing lawsuits against organizations trying to make free books a reality
UP Staff
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1978
2012
Price of textbooks
he average student spends $900 on textbooks a year, according to OnlineSchools.org and the Student Public Interest Research Groups. Changes in the textbook market such as used and rental textbooks have increased student savings, but publishers
Since 1978, textbook prices increased nine-fold, rising more than 3 times the average increase of all goods and services, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That amounts to an 812 percent increase. The GAO report determined prices rose primarily because of new “instructional supplements,” like websites and CD-roms.
“I buy my books from Amazon for half off, I think the FAU bookstore is robbery.” Tami McGrudder, senior neuroscience major Photo by Melissa Landolfa
consider the increased demand for used and rented textbooks as the reason new book prices keep rising, according to a 2005 report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO). And as digital copies are drastically reducing the prices
of some college textbooks, the costs of others are steadily rising. Now with open source textbooks making free knowledge a reality, publishing companies are fighting back with lawsuits to keep revenues and cost to students climbing.
Students could save up to
80% But the GAO report mentions another set of numbers that could be responsible for the price increases. With hundreds of publishing companies competing in the textbook market, the 5 largest publishers represented more than 80 percent of textbook sales in 2004.
$ Open education, or “open source” textbooks, are a FREE alternative to buying new or used textbooks, renting them, or purchasing their digital counterparts from bookstores or publishers. Websites like Boundless.com currently offer open source alternatives to 18 leading college subjects, from finance and microbiology to philosophy and art history.
25 percent 50 percent
if they purchase used textbooks, or up to
if they rent their books, according to the FAU bookstore. Downloadable copies of printed textbooks, called eTextbooks, could save students up to
60 percent. $900
$184 The same student spending $900 a year on textbooks now could be spending as little as $184 a year if they were using open source alternatives, according to OnlineSchools.org.
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Tracking antiques According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, 3 publishing companies sued Boundless.com in April 2012: Pearson, Cengage Learning, and Macmillan Higher Education. These companies control $7 billion of the textbook market, according to Slate.com. There have been no updates on the case since it was filed.
With digital copies of college textbooks being cheaper and more prevalent now than ever before, it’s no surprise that students are ditching their more expensive, bulkier, print counterparts. Here’s a chart tracking the life cycle of a print textbook. Once students purchase them, the chart shows what students can do to make money off them again:
Publishers produce textbooks and market them to instructors, who choose and assign textbooks
Student uses books, then decides whether to keep or sell them
Boundless.com is not, however, alone in its quest for free textbooks. FlatworldKnowledge.com offers open source textbooks being used in more than 4,000 class rooms at 2,000 colleges, according to US News. And websites like Connexions.org, the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources, and the Open Courseware Consortium also offer open source alternatives and webinars.
And the open source revolution is showing no signs of slowing down. Last September, The Atlantic reported that California passed a law creating a website for students to download free digital copies for more than 50 open source textbooks.
Student keeps book
Gets no money back
and used textbooks
Student pays retail price for new, or 75 percent of the new retail price for used, if it’s available
Student trades/sells
Student decides
book to friend or
to particpate in
online buyer
bookstore buyback
May get some money back
If instructor reorders
New edition released
book, bookstore buys
or no buyback possible
used book
Student gets 50 percent of new retail price
Gets no money back
If instructor doesn’t reorder, Wholesaler buys used book
Student gets 5 to 35 percent of new retail price Source: Government Accountability Office report
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SPORTS
SHINE BRIGHT ON THE DIAMOND Owls baseball, not football, rules FAU athletics
Rolando Rosa, Sports Editor
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ig brother still reigns supreme. The crown for the best sports program at FAU belongs to baseball. Owls baseball, established in 1981, has had just one losing season in the past 14 years. Meanwhile, FAU football, which started in 2001, has 58 wins in 133 games. Despite all of their success, according to former
FAU Baseball Plays at FAU Baseball Stadium:
baseball coach Kevin Cooney, the program has been the “red-headed step-child” of FAU athletics since football arrived. Football is funded like a champion (over $1.6 million a year from the athletics budget), while baseball gets chump change (less than $300,000) for steady success. Here’s an inside-the-numbers look at why baseball is FAU’s most dominant athletics program.
FAU Football plays at FAU Football Stadium:
opened in 1991 - capacity: 2,000
opened in 2011 - capacity: 30,000
(No seats along foul lines, only behind
Previously played at Sun Life Stadium (2001-2002)
home plate)
Number of restrooms:
and Lockhart Stadium (2003-2010)
Number of restrooms:
None (There are two portable toilets available inside the stadium for players and coaches.)
21 in total
$283,827
$1,631,598.22
Money received annually from athletics budget
Money received annually from athletics budget
(Does not include scholarships, salaries, and
(Does not include scholarships, salaries,
uniforms/equipment)
uniforms/equipment)
Source: Scott Silversten (Assistant Vice President of University Communications)
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Trips to NCAA Regionals
Division 1
2001: 36-24 2002: 46-21 2003: 47-16 2004: 47-17 2005: 37-24 2006: 30-28 2007: 36-22 2008: 32-27-1 2009: 29-24 2010: 33-20 2011: 32-25 2012: 32-22 2001-2012 win record:
437-270-1
Photo courtesy of FAU media relations
Head coach Kevin Cooney:
750-480-5 in 20 seasons (1988-2008) NCAA record for consecutive wins:
1999 (34 in a row) 26
2001: 4-6 2002: 2-9 2003: 11-3 2004: 9-3 2005: 2-9 2006: 5-7 2007: 8-5 2008: 7-6 2009: 5-7 2010: 4-8 2011: 1-11 2012: 3-9
Division 2 Independent
Division 1-A Independent
Sun Belt
Overall win record:
58-75-0
Photo by Michelle Friswell
Head coach Howard Schnellenberger:
55-66 in 10 Seasons (2001-2011) Record against ranked Division 1 opponents:
0-10
Bowl appearances NCAA regional appearances since 1999
7
2
[2007 (Motor City Bowl – defeated Memphis 44-27 youngest program to receive bowl invitation); 2008 (New Orleans Bowl – defeated Central Michigan 24-21)]
Number of times ranked in the Division 1 Top 30
12
(highest ranking: 9th in the nation
Number of times ranked in the Division 1 Top 25
Never
during the 1999 season)
Sun Belt Conference Champions
2 out of the last 3 seasons 12 all americans Keith Foley (1983), Mike Ryan (1984), Scott Hay (1986), Jack Penrod (1988), Todd Moser (1999), Dan Jackson (1999), Dickie Hart (1999), Randy Beam (2003), Jeff Fiorentino (2004), Mickey Storey (2005), Robbie Widlansky (2007), Mike McKenna (2008)
Owls that reached the MLB
Sun Belt Conference Champions
1 out of the last 8 seasons All-Americans None
Sun Belt Player of the Year Sophomore QB Rusty Smith (2007)
Owls THAT REACHED the NFL
Jeff Fiorentino, outfielder for the Oakland Athletics (Formerly with the Baltimore Orioles) (2005–2009) Photo courtesy of FAU media relations Tim Harikkala, pitcher for the Seattle Mariners (1995–2005) Carmen Cali, pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals (2005–2008) Jeff Beliveau, pitcher for the Texas Rangers (2008)
RB Alfred Morris (Washington Redskins) Photo courtesy of Washington Redskins
Tommy Murphy, outfielder for the Kansas City Royals (2006–2007)
QB Rusty Smith (Tennessee Titans)
Mike Crotta, pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates (2011)
TE Rob Housler (Arizona Cardinals)
Mickey Storey, pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays (2012-2012) Sources: FAUSports.com, Katrina McCormack, FAU media relations
WR Lestar Jean (Houston Texans) Source: FAUSports.com
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OP I NI ON
MONEY TALKS
What students had to say about budget cuts on their education Reporting by Lore Khazem, News Editor Photos by Ryan Murphy, Senior Photographer and Melissa Landolfa, Staff Photographer
“I don’t think students know what they’re paying for, and if they did they’d be outraged.” Tian Sui, third bachelor biology major
Karin Weiss, senior finance major
“I can’t stand paying much more money. I try my best not to buy anything from FAU, not even food. It’s so expensive.”
“It’s unfair [that baseball gets less money]. I feel like a team with better results should get better money.”
“I spend more than $600 each semester on books from BookSmart.”
“It’s absolutely ridiculous where our money goes”
“Tuition keeps increasing, and scholarships keep decreasing.”
“I’m paying less now because I don’t live on campus.”
Pierre H. Simon, senior mechanical engineering major
Paola Gonzales, senior biological sciences major
Maks Deryabkin, senior biology major
“I just bought a $230 textbook, it’s ridiculous. I’m picking up jobs because money is tight.” Justin Milcetich, freshman engineering major
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“I feel like it’s a cop-out that they’re spending so much money for all the other unimportant stuff.”
Emmanuel Ramos, sophomore history major
Spencer Bannon, junior secondary English education major
Meghan Darcy, sophomore English major
“I have grants, scholarships, and loans, so it increases how much I have to get loans for. I’m going to be paying off my debts for life.” Geilisa Almodovar, junior criminal justice major
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