ne as College Newsletter DOUGLAS COLLEGE oe BRCMveEs April 5, 1982 FEES INCREASED "Yes accessibility is adversely affected by increasing tuition fees, but when you Douglas College students are willing to close the doors of the institution, then pay higher tuition fees to save the you do not have any accessibility at all," College's summer school from the fiscal Hallgate said. restraint axe. College president, Bill Day, who spoke Student president, Kevin Hallgate suc- against the students' proposal, said the cessfully proposed, at a recent Douglas administration's recommendations were not College Board meeting, increasing tui- "a blind meat axe approach to cutting the tion fees $3 per credit instead of the budget." $2 increase proposed by the College's administration. Hallgate surprised the board when he said that the students he represented would be willing to pay the “Qur move was calculated as the least damaging steps we could take at this tine, given what we can expect in fumding," extra increase in tuition, if summer Day said. school was not cancelled. "The combination of existing commitments . and the provincial government's restraint The ee of summer oe elon. p ig Jaaving. as atte aif- ficult arithmetic, and these two recom mendations could be only the first of many »++L do believe that layoffs of staff, faculty and administrative personnel are probable." Still, the board felt the student soci- ety's offer was the one it should go with, until it knows what the 1982-83 budget tration along with a $2 per credit in- crease as an initial means of partially staving off a forcasted shortfall in the 1982-83 budget. However, Hallgate told the board that accessibility for the 500 students, who would not be able to attend the college this summer, was more import- ant than the increased financial bur- will. be, : den of the proposed $15 per credit fee, Vice Chairman, Gerry Trerise commended the the board agreed. The maximum fee for student society for coming up with a "mat- a full time student under the new for- ure" alternative to a "very difficult pro- mulas will jump $51 to $195 per semester. blem." The cancellation of summer school meant "T assume that the society didn't like 30 course sections would not have been having to recommend tuition increases, and offered, resulting in an approximate I can assure the students that the board $60,000 plus saving to the college. does not like raising tuition fees." Increasing the tuition an extra $1 above Trexiss' said. the administration's recommended $2 in- According to the bursar, Bill Morfey, crease, would generate about $60,000. Douglas College will be facing a budget "People fi wa. (eeudentel ane eck aoe deficit of $230,000, before contract ne- a free ride," said Hallgate, "but we've eae aoe eye aa tried to show by our recommendation that "That figure could increase considerably, our education means more to us than depending on the contract negotiations," money." Morfey said.