1993-02-18

              It's easy to see without looking too far That not much is really sacred.

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Saint John's University

Volume CVI, Number I

Official Student Newspaper Since 1887

February 18, 1993

Tuition increases by 8 percent for next year

By Matthew Selby Editorial Staff Writer

The average comprehensive fee at SJU will be raised $995 for the 1993-94 school year. Tuition will be raised more than 8 percent, or $842, and the average cost of room and board will be raised $68 and $85, respectively.

"This increase is important in order to maintain and enhance the quality of student life here," said Warren Janzen, vice president of administrative services.

This tuitionincrease will resultina$431>000 boost in net tuition revenue for SJU. To ease financial strain on the student body, there will be a $475,000 increase in institutional financial aid, the aid that SJU gives directly to students in the form of grants.

According to Student Regent Terry Flynn, by increasing the price tag, but not the real cost of the school, SJU will seem a more attractive selection to a prospective student.

"One of the main factors behind the tuition raise is increasing the cost, therefore increasing the perceived value of the education," Flynn said.

"We are trying to stay within the range of the institutions that we are competing with, so we are confident that we will be in the same relative position in that market," said Joe Friedrich, vice president of academic affairs.

Another reason there will be such a large inflation in the tuition is that additional fees that were proposed over the past year have been included in the tuition as a packaged deal. Plans for an operational fee for the new Sexton Commons and a fee for improved public access computer services were included in the tuition as a whole rather than listed as separate fees.

"We heard that students and students' parents don't like a bunch of fees over and above, so we try to keep those down," Friedrich said.

Friedrich stressed that students will be getting more for their money. He proposed an improvement in the academic life of the SJU student.

"We don't think the students are going to be totally justified in being charged more if we can't provide better services,"Friedrich said.

The services Friedrich outlined are performance reviews and training sessions of administrators to get people to establish goals and make sure they are providing a good service to the customer, the student. There will also be sexual harassment and sexual assault education programs, as well as an increased public access computer service.

"All of these are being done jointly with St. Ben's," Friedrich said. "St. Ben's and St. John's are working very closely, in the academic areas especially."

CSB will alsobe receiving a tuition increase of $842.

Project IMPACT improves campus computer facilities

By MoDy Bergstrom Staff Writer and

Sean Murray Editorial Staff Writer

In the recent past, changes have been made in microcomputing services on the campuses of CSB and SJU to update the old and create the new. The improvements focus on the increased computer access for the people of these communities. This joint plan is called Project IMPACT.

"Last year, after many months of study, the Joint Committee on Academic Computing issued an assessment reportin which it said there was a serious need to improve the computer technology throughout the academic areas of these institutions," said Joseph Friedrich, SJU Vice President of Academic Affairs. "We looked at this assessment and decided it applied to non-academic areas as well."

"We decide we needed a 3 to 5 year program to bring about these changes. The cost estimated for these changes is about $9

million, $5 million at Saint John's."

During the 1993-94 year, these changes will cost about $450,000. Funds will come out of two different reserves.

Friedrich explained that one of the reserves "is asked to make enough selling food, room and board, books, et cetera, so they can put an amount into a reserve called the auxiliary enterprise reserve. We're going to get $275,000 from there and $175,000 from the Educational and General Reserve."

The Project IMPACT changes will cost SJU more than CSB because SJU has more concrete buildings, therefore making the process for wiring various buildings an expensive project.

Although Project IMPACT is a long-range plan, it has already brought increased accessibility of computer use at CSB. A completely new computer lab has been installed in the Main Building on the CSB campus. This high functioning facility has taken the place of the lab in the HAB. The new mod-

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 this budget there is about $400,000 worth of position cuts," Friedrich said. "We are going to have fewer faculty members. Right now it looks like 4 1/2 faculty positions going down at St. John's alone."

These positions will be cut by not replacing faculty who go on sabbatical and those who retire. By not replacing the lost positions, classes will subsequently become larger.

There are also raises for the faculty, staff and administration written in the new budget. The compensation of these employees, that is salary plus fringe benefits, will increase by an average of 5.5 percent.

"With the financial aid that we threw in the

pot, this $842 was better for the students than not providing the services that we put in here as quality improvement," Friedrich said. "But that's a judgment I think the students ultimately will have to evaluate.7*

Joan Steck, chair of the Faculty Welfare Committee, isn't so sure that all of these changes will be for the better.

The tuition increase "improves financial aid opportunities for some students. It balances the budget," Steck said. "But I don't see a direct educational improvement when the class size goes up."

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ernized lab offers many advantages to its users.

Software no longer has to be checked out from a computer services employee. All machines are part of networked systems. The software that is contained within this facility is Microsoft Windows, Lotus 1-2-3,

Word Perfect, d-Base 4 and DOS programs for floppy disks. Math Cad software is anticipated to arrive in the near future.

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