The Cadre + 24'’March 1998 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     UPEI| Budget’s Causes and Effects 
     
    
   
   
    
     BY TODD MACLEAN 
     
    
   
   
    
     This Thursday, the pro- 
     
     vincial budget comes down, 
     
     and will indicate how much 
     
     funding will be cut from post- 
     
     secondary education this year. 
     
    

    
     With a debt load of 
     
     $850,000, much will be 
     
     chopped away at in order to 
     
     break even this year, including 
     
     university employment posi- 
     
     tions, campus services, and 
     
     even academic programs. A 
     
     much needed jump on the “stu- 
     
     dent bandwagon” by the gov- 
     
     ernment would be welcomed 
     
     greatly in this time of need. 
     
    

    
     “The province continu- 
     
     ally screws higher education,” 
     
     said Stephen Ramsay, UPEI 
     
     SU VP Finance. “Any tough 
     
     financial decision that the uni- 
     
     versity has to make should be 
     
     blamed on the province. The 
     
     administration is only given so 
     
     much money to work with, and 
     
     with every percentage point 
     
     that’s cut from the total budget, 
     
     tuition will have to increase so 
     
     much more as well.” 
     
    

    
     Ramsay said that the 
     
     Board of Governors will soon 
     
     be deciding upon next year’s 
     
     tuition costs, once faculty con- 
     
     tract negotiations are deter- 
     
     mined and once the govern- 
     
     ment announces this year’s 
     
     grant. 
     
    

    
     “It [the tuition increase] 
     
     could increase anywhere from 
     
     0-12 percent in order to cover 
     
     costs, but we’ve already said 
     
     that wecan’tdo that,” Ramsay 
     
     said. “Looking at the students, 
     
     it’s just unreasonable.” 
     
    

    
     John Crossley, UPEI 
     
     VP Academic, said that the 
     
     government may show con- 
     
     cern about rising tuition this 
     
     year because of the recent 
     
     uproar regarding student pov- 
     
    
   
   
    
     erty. 
     
    

    
     “Their main concern 
     
     would be the cost of education 
     
     for students,” Crossley said. 
     
     “The government probably 
     
     isn’t all that concerned with 
     
    
   
   
    
     the cutting of programs, etcet- 
     
     era. There is a general as- 
     
     sumption that the grant will be 
     
     cut by about four percent.” 
     
     According to Crossley, 
     
     this year’s debt load has caused 
     
     academic “bleeding” in pro- 
     
     grams such as Classics, Fine 
     
     Arts, Math and Spanish. Also, 
     
     The Asian Studies program 
     
     now has no guarantee of ever 
     
    
   
   
    
     being offered again. 
     
    

    
     “It’s tough to reduce 
     
     resources without damaging 
     
     students or overworking pro- 
     
     fessors. You just have to look 
     
     at where the university can 
     
     best afford the bleeding,” he 
     
     explained. 
     
    

    
     Two sessional contracts 
     
     were taken away from both 
     
     Asian Studies and Classics. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The cutting of courses within 
     
     the non-tenured Spanish pro- 
     
     gram was also unavoidable. 
     
     “These year to year pro- 
     
     grams are vulnerable during 
     
     budget time,” Crossley said. 
     
     “The Spanish one was the 
     
     hardest decision to make -- it 
     
     has the potential now to really 
     
     change how that department 
     
     works, but ifit wasn’t Spanish, 
     
    
   
   
    
     it would be something else.” 
     
    

    
     The debt figure of 
     
     $850,000 has been worked 
     
     down to about $400,000 so far 
     
     this year by cutting some ex- 
     
     penditures, but those involved 
     
     with writing the budget are 
     
     awaiting the government’s 
     
     decision on its funding before 
     
     determining further financial 
     
     actions. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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