By Andrea Hay
Saving bucks won out over student health and quality education in this year’s University of Calgary budget. The University Budget Committee got out its budget axe again in an attempt to deal with provincial government funding cuts of another seven per cent. The funding cuts are right on schedule for the second year of Advanced… Continue reading BUDGET HISTORY: Cuts like a knife
By Val Jepson
As promised, the provincial Conservative government officially announced their first balanced budget two weeks ago. Although there were few surprises, student leaders and university administrators differ on what the budget means to University of Calgary students. The province will absorb a $42 million federal cut in transfer payments and will spend an extra $52 million,… Continue reading BUDGET HISTORY: Budget blues sung by student leaders
By Chris Herard
In a meeting last week, the Planning and Finance Committee approved an increase in next year’s tuition to the tune of approximately $220 per full time student. “We realize it’s a problem,” said Jason Allen, president of the University of Calgary Students’ Union. “There was no time to consult effectively on this one.” The extra… Continue reading BUDGET HISTORY: Brace yourselves, tuition is going up… again.
It’s official: the provincial government is driving post-secondary education into the ground. The provincial budget was released last Tuesday and, according to Students’ Union President Jason Allen, there were no surprises. “At some point in the not-so-distant future, it will become glaringly obvious that Alberta has created a second-rate post-secondary education system because of systematic… Continue reading BUDGET HISTORY: Klein’s budget axe falls
The provincial government is going to reinvest in post-secondary education… sort of. Yesterday afternoon Ralph Klein, at a meeting with provincial student leaders, announced that he will not back down on next year’s three per cent cut to education. However, he did say the Alberta government will invest in education sometime in the near future.… Continue reading BUDGET HISTORY: Cover story: Flip of the Klein
If the university has its way, students will son pay a lot more for tuition–thousands of dollars more. The provincial government is in the process of drawing up a new tuition fee policy for Alberta’s post-secondary institutions, to be released in late October. Currently, universities can charge tuition equal to no more than 20 per… Continue reading BUDGET HISTORY: How does $4,000 per year for tuition sound?
On Nov. 14, Ralph Klein made a guest appearance at convocation and insulted students. “I’m angry that Klein would have made comments like this he knows to be false,” said Kate Kimberley, Students’ Union president. “It was totally inappropriate to make those comments where he did, when he did.” Klein stated, after his convocation address… Continue reading BUDGET HISTORY: Klein irks students
The university of Calgary will be drastically reducing its budget over the next five years to deal with fiscal realities. President Murray Fraser told a packed University Theatre last Thursday. University budget officers will be asked to plan for budget reductions of 17 per cent over five years for teaching units and 20 per cent… Continue reading BUDGET HISTORY: Fraser lowers the boom
The Federal and provincial governments are in debt. Will the University of Calgry follow suit? This year’s preliminary operating budget is out. Despite an $11.5 million reduction in provincial funding from last year-more than $2 million of which remains to be cut-the U of C Board of Governors is demanding a balanced budget. “We are… Continue reading BUDGET HISTORY: University Facing deficit budget for 1995/1996
By Ian Pearce
Patrick Walsh, chair of Alberta Union of Provincial Employees Local 52, represents approximately 1800 support staff workers. Walsh was in the hot seat after President Murray Fraser announced budget cuts at a town hall meeting last week. “I have been deluged by calls and by people who are frantic and I’m urging them to adopt… Continue reading BUDGET HISTORY: AUPE slams Fraser for cuts