Groups offered aid amid financial crisis
Senate extends application deadline for WAGE, others, extra time does not guarantee help
McLean Bennett
Issue date: 9/25/08 Section: News
The center was saved by a one-year funding deal in which a pair of administration offices promised to support the center with leftover university budget money for the 2008-09 school year, Holton said. That deal will expire at the end of this year, but WAGE has yet to locate new funding for next year.
Senate Vice President Meghan Charlier said WAGE has been "searching and searching for funding," but has so far turned up nothing and is in need of a last-ditch effort to apply for segregated fees.
"It's important to realize that they've done a lot of work to find the money," Charlier said, "and it really isn't there."
CASE had originally been funded through a grant but is now struggling to find replacement funds after its grant expired recently.
"The problem with grants is they're wonderful while you have them and then they come to an end," said Beth Hellwig, vice chancellor of Student Affairs. "And you've created all these important programs and then if you don't have the money to sustain them, what do you do at that point?"
While Hellwig said WAGE may currently be in a more dire position than CASE, she said both organizations are in danger of crashing if they don't resolve their financial problems soon.
Counseling Services, on the other hand, is under no immediate threat of closure, Hellwig said, but could merely use more funding to expand its services to students.
Holton agreed Counseling Services isn't threatened as much as the other two organizations.
"Counseling Services is really in a different boat," he said. "They in fact might not even apply for segregated fee funding this year. They are merely underfunded and Senate would like to increase the Counseling Services' funding to expand its operations to be more accommodating of students."
Senate Vice President Meghan Charlier said WAGE has been "searching and searching for funding," but has so far turned up nothing and is in need of a last-ditch effort to apply for segregated fees.
"It's important to realize that they've done a lot of work to find the money," Charlier said, "and it really isn't there."
CASE had originally been funded through a grant but is now struggling to find replacement funds after its grant expired recently.
"The problem with grants is they're wonderful while you have them and then they come to an end," said Beth Hellwig, vice chancellor of Student Affairs. "And you've created all these important programs and then if you don't have the money to sustain them, what do you do at that point?"
While Hellwig said WAGE may currently be in a more dire position than CASE, she said both organizations are in danger of crashing if they don't resolve their financial problems soon.
Counseling Services, on the other hand, is under no immediate threat of closure, Hellwig said, but could merely use more funding to expand its services to students.
Holton agreed Counseling Services isn't threatened as much as the other two organizations.
"Counseling Services is really in a different boat," he said. "They in fact might not even apply for segregated fee funding this year. They are merely underfunded and Senate would like to increase the Counseling Services' funding to expand its operations to be more accommodating of students."
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Ray
posted 9/25/08 @ 7:15 AM CST
Dangerous precedents are afoot. Be careful......
Dave
posted 9/25/08 @ 7:16 AM CST
I'm beginning to understand now that Student Senate is the training ground for new socialists to learn how to spend other people's money on things which not many would support if they weren't forced to. (Continued…)
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Emily H
posted 9/26/08 @ 10:58 AM CST
Typos in both the head and the subhead! You should really fix this on the online edition, at the very least, to maintain credibility.
Alex W
posted 9/26/08 @ 6:11 PM CST
Why should I read a newspaper that has three amateur typos in the first three headlines on the front page? "Nineth"? "aimd"? "gaurantee"? Are you outsourcing to fifth graders? Even basic spell-check would catch those!
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