The Student Government Association passed UB-51004 Tier One Freshmen Housing Act Wednesday with a 25-1 vote after being sent to committee on Monday. The bill will now be presented to the administration by SGA President Charles Haston.
This is the second draft of a mandatory freshmen housing proposal, which was originally presented in late August but was shut down after opposition from UH alumnus and State Senator John Whitmire. Changes include a $1,000,000 scholarship fund to be established to help subsidize the costs of on campus living and an expansion of the areas that would be exempt from living on campus, if they choose to.
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$1,000,000 isn’t going to do jack squat! Also I can’t seem to understand why the SGA is so insistent on getting students to live on-campus?!?!
I attended UH to get a degree and then get a job. My goal was NOT to sheer on the football team that is subsidized by my tuition dollars nor loiter around campus after class as I had three jobs I was working to help pay for tuition.
Leave UH as is and focus on academic rigor. Also drop the minority-focus and focus on making UH an academically challenging university that employers take seriously and not view as “Cougar High School.”
Thank you so much for bringing attention to how tuition is used to subsidize football and other sports teams. Universities should be for getting a degree with the skills to find a good job instead of bilking students tuition for worthless sports. Even after we graduate, as taxpayers we will continue to pay for these worthless college sports.
“The Knight Commission says Division I schools with football spent
$91,936 per athlete in 2010, seven times the spending per student of
$13,628. Division I universities without football spent $39,201 per
athlete, more than triple the average student spending.
Nearly every university loses money on sports. Even after private donations and ticket sales, they fill the gap by tapping students paying tuition or state taxpayers.”
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/09/15/athletics-cost-colleges-students-millions/2814455/
Most NCAA Division I athletic departments take subsidies
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/2013/05/07/ncaa-finances-subsidies/2142443/
Make all the faculty and staff live on campus. It will help them better integrate into the Cougar community!