Comments on: Ashamed of my peers

By: Brendan Taylor

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:45:18 +0000

There’s plenty of blame to go around, it’s not like we’re going to run out of it.

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By: Ian

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:55:33 +0000

And I will be fair, Stelmach and Harper share a lot of the blame for cutting funding and screwing PSE.

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By: Ian

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:54:22 +0000

I can and will blame the administration. Their job is to show leadership, instead their first instinct when told they have less money is to circumvent tuition law (which they’ve been actively lobbying against) and to create a non-tuition tax to charge students. The UofA has the highest paid bureaucracy in Canada, and for what? A record setting deficit because they expanded to fast? There’s ways to cut back that won’t negatively affect either access or the current students, I outline some of them here.

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By: Steven

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:23:29 +0000

Ian, its unfortunate about the market modifiers and the extra the eng students have to pay. But blaming the administrators is not the right thing to do in this case. Apparently (I am getting this from a source who sat at the meetings where this was actually discussed) that the Alberta government told the U of A that they were getting $60 million less and that the government ‘suggested’ the university raise tuition to make up for it. That is a clear indication that the government is not going to budge. If only we had a provincial government that knew how to plan for the future when it wasn’t a boom…..I guess its because it ‘never’ happened before!

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By: Brendan Taylor

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:31:32 +0000

Oh god. I thought the SU’s response was a bit weak, but this goes way beyond that.

On the plus side now we know the reality of this and the actual numbers we’re dealing with – at least extra 20%. Ouch

I’ve done some graphic analysis of the U of A’s finances, with the rest of Canada’s universities as a bonus. SFU is here.

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