President's Report
February 15, 2002
The G-QUE Report was officially presented to the Student and Educational Affairs Committee of the Board of Trustees at their last meeting (1 February). Copies of the "Excerpts from..." version of the Report have been sent to all faculty and all graduate students. The full Report is available from the CGS office. The full report will be sent to graduate studies chairs, department chairs, deans, senior administrators, CGS delegates, graduate schools around the country, and our sister graduate student organizations around the country. The G-QUE Implementation Committee is hard at work determining where to focus our energies and prioritizing the strategies within the eight recommendations.
At the 1 February meeting of the Board of Trustees, the President, Provost, and Senior Vice President for Business and Finance talked about some tuition options for the next academic year. While the University is most likely to propose a 9% increase in tuition for returning undergraduate students, and a $1,200 increase on top of that for all new undergraduates, tuition for graduate students is anticipated to have only a 5% increase. This has been the standard increase in the past few years because OSU's graduate tuition is competitive with other programs. The administration is planning on presenting to the Board final proposal on the university budget and tuition increases at later in the year.
There will be a groundbreaking ceremony on Thursday 28 February for the new graduate/professional student housing complex.
The Lantern has had several articles that mentioned or highlighted CGS. The most recent of which was an article on the elimination of PEGS that appeared in 7 February's issue.
On behalf of the Council, the Executive Committee issued a letter to Vice Provost Carole Anderson, chair of the committee that proposed eliminating PEGS from central funds. A copy of this letter will soon be available from the CGS website. If delegates have additional personal "testimonials" about how PEGS funding has directly affected them or their colleagues, I am still interested in hearing them.
A letter will go out early next week stating the Council's position on the elimination of the COP-EZ cards. Copies will be available at the next Council meeting.
Respectfully submitted,
J. Briggs Cormier, President
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