Regents approve 8 percent tuition increase
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO – The Nevada System of Higher Education’s Board of Regents approved an 8 percent tuition increase today for all undergraduate college students in Nevada.
The Board will hold a special meeting Jan. 20 to discuss how to spend the increases, which will take effect for the 2012-13 academic year. For UNR, the increase could mean the addition of up to 30 faculty members and funding for several student services programs, according to the university’s spending plan.
The 8 percent rise in fees should raise about $4.2 million, and annual full-time undergraduate tuition would increase by about $425 to $5,472.
Tuition has increased by 33 percent since 2009, with a 13 percent increase taking effect this year.
-The Nevada Sagebrush
By Staff Report
Students rally to defend public education at the Capitol
UNIVERSITY OF ALBANY – New York Students Rising, a statewide group, organized a march on the State Capitol on Monday, Nov. 21.
The group pushed a large, fake boulder along the route that represented the $1 trillion of student loan debt owned by American students.
At the Capitol, the group presented a staff member from Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office with a mock report card emblazoned with a large letter “F.”
Sean Collins, an organizer with the group Save Our SUNY in conjunction with NYSR, said that the report card was intended for Cuomo, although he was out of the office at the time.
“It was meant to show the governor’s failure to protect higher education in New York State,” Collins said.
Collins estimated that about 100 people joined the day’s activities, and he was happy with their efforts.
-Albany Student Press
By Erin Colligan
At World AIDS Day, Sachs, health advocates say more progress needed
COLUMBIA COLLEGE – Student Global AIDS Campaign co-president Amirah Sequeira, CC ’12, said after the event more than 127 people affiliated with Columbia have died of AIDS, but the list has not been updated recently.
The event, one of several sponsored by SGAC for World AIDS Week, featured presentations from several renowned AIDS advocates — including Columbia Earth Institute Director Jeffrey Sachs and Aid for AIDS founder Jesus Aguais — as well as dance and musical performances.
Speakers, alternating between the solemn and the uplifting, described the ups and downs of the now 30-year struggle against the disease but expressed hope that recent progress will make it possible to eradicate it in the next 30 years. Some of that progress had just taken place Thursday morning, when President Barack Obama, CC ’83, announced that the U.S. would work to provide AIDS treatment for six million people by 2013, a longtime goal of the anti-AIDS movement.
But both Sequeira and Sachs cautioned that Obama’s speech has not yet been translated into action. Sachs said even when nothing was being done about AIDS in the 1990s, it was easy to have the speeches.
“Everything that counts is what really happens, for real people, in real places, on the ground, in real time before they die,” Sachs said.
Sachs also said Obama’s speech is overshadowed by last week’s announcement that, due to a lack of funding commitments, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria would postpone its next round of fundraising to 2014.
-Columbia Spectator
By Sammy Roth