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‘THAT IS MY FAULT ENTIRELY’
Board to advise use of $8 million of differential tuition in Huntsman school doesn’t exist By Alison Berg and Carter Moore NEWS WRITERS
The Jon M. Huntsman School of Business col-
lects more than $8 million annually through dif-
ferential tuition. How that money is divvied up is supposed to be decided by an advisory board
to the dean made up of students, faculty and staff.
That board, however, has never met.
The lack of a board’s existence hasn’t prevented
tuition increases or stopped the dean’s office from spending the money from the school of
business. On average, business students pay $2,000 per year more than other students at Utah State University.
In an interview with The Utah Statesman, As-
sociate Dean Dave Patel — who was set to over-
see the board until the 2017-18 academic year— originally provided a list of would-be faculty
board members and said, “We met with Ben [Vera, 2015-16 Utah State University Student Association business senator]...it’s met once.”
The Statesman filed a public records request
for all written records of any past meetings.
Patel then admitted the board had never actu-
ally met.
“Ben did remind me we never met as a board,”
Patel said in an email to The Statesman. “Our best recollection is that we did not confirm a time when everyone could meet.”
“That is my fault entirely,” he added.
The Statesman contacted all five faculty mem-
bers Patel said were on the board — two stated
via email they had never been involved with this
board or differential tuition, while the other three did not respond.
According to the one-page business charter for
the differential tuition advisory board, “The board will review the use of funding provided through differential tuition and make recom-
mendations to the dean regarding the use of funding.”
The college’s website states the funding is used
for personnel — such as faculty and staff — GRAPHIC BY Kyle Todecheene
see “Differential Tuition” PAGE 9
HONORING LIVES LOST IN BATTLE Utah State Air Force ROTC cadets march on Quad during 24-hour vigil By Dillan Passmore STUDENT LIFE STAFF WRITER
Ten steps, stop. About-face, ten steps, stop. Turn,
three steps, turn, three steps, turn, stop. Ten steps, stop.
USU Air Force ROTC cadets repeated this march
for 24-hours as a vigil on the Quad to honor sol-
diers who are missing in action (MIA) or prisoners
of war (POW). The vigil began Thursday at 5 p.m. and ended Friday at 5 p.m.
Two cadets volunteered to march each hour,
switching out with two other cadets every hour to
maintain a constant guard of the American, POW/ MIA and Utah flags in the middle of the Quad.
Cadet Andrew Merkley, a major organizer of the
vigil, said that he hopes the vigil brings perception to people’s lives as they remember those who have gone missing during war.
According to the POW/MIA Accounting Agency,
more than 82,000 American military personnel are missing from conflicts from World War II to today.
“We often forget the things that other people do see “Vigil” PAGE 9
PHOTO BY Lauren Romero Two cadets volunteered to march each hour, switching out with other cadets to maintain constant guard of the flags on the Quad.