1997-1998 CGS Legislative Platform
Passed January 11, 1998
The Council of Graduate Students (CGS) of The Ohio State University stands in support of the following legislative initiatives and urges the appropriate local, state, and national elected officials to likewise support them.
RESOLUTION #1:
CGS believes strongly that education is a vital and necessary continuum from kindergarten through to the graduate level. CGS further believes that the funding necessary for that education, at all levels, should be adequately and equitably funded.
CGS therefore supports measures within the State of Ohio to develop improved funding mechanisms for grades K-12. In doing so, however, CGS opposes attempts to fund primary or secondary education at the expense of higher education.
RESOLUTION #2:
CGS believes that Ohio's Boards of Trustees would better serve their important educational function if all of their membership were empowered with voice and vote. The student members of those boards have demonstrated their competence and worth here at The Ohio State University and across this state.
CGS therefore urges the speedy passage of HB 398, giving appointed student members of Ohio's Boards of Trustees the same rights and privileges as other Trustees, including the right to vote and attend executive session.
RESOLUTION #3:
CGS believes that educational institutions that have succeeded in fulfilling their teaching, service, and research missions deserve recognition and reward for that achievement. This recognition and reward will be an incentive for continued improvement.
CGS therefore urges Ohio's elected officials to continue revising the funding formula for higher education in this state, with greater sensitivity towards institutional mission.
RESOLUTION #4:
CGS believes that the quality of an educational institution is enhanced by the diversity of those who comprise it.
CGS therefore supports continued efforts at outreach, recruitment, admission and retention of a diverse university population, and opposes any legislation which would restrict those efforts. [an error occurred while processing this directive]