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As the semester comes to a close, the Graduate and Professional Student Council worked to tie up some loose ends such as proposed tuition increases and e-mail policy.
GPSC president Amy Sileven said the University's proposition showed promise, but the council members voted against the University's policy to raise the tuition multiplier for international and nonresident students.
The graduate tuition increase proposed for 2005 would be 7.3 percent, while 2006 and 2007 increases would be 12.5 percent and 12 percent respectively.
The University had indicated prior that the proposed increases would raise 16.5 percent for 2006 and 16.1 percent for 2007.
The University's plan also stated only non-resident students entering SIUC would pay the 2.5 times that of a resident student. Continuing non-resident students would resume paying only twice the tuition amount.
The GPSC approved to accept the proposed plan with the exception of the international and nonresident multiplier.
Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs and Enrollment Management Larry Dietz addressed concerns GPSC had regarding a proposed electronic mail policy. The University drafted a policy in October that was designed in hopes to better communicate with SIUC students.
"We were looking into a faster, better quality and more reliable means of communication," Dietz said.
The official SIUC student e-mail policy dictates students would receive an account from the University upon enrollment. The account, which could also be used for educational purposes, would provide a way for the administration to send important messages to SIUC students. The policy also said the University would not have responsibility for unchecked messages.
Dietz said the increasing cost of postage was also a factor in drafting the policy.
GPSC disapproved of the draft for the policy at its Nov. 18 meeting, citing concerns of soliciting e-mails from outside advertisers and student accessibility to computers.
Dietz said he believed the only e-mail provider the University would accept is one distributed by SIUC.
"I would not think the institution would support anything other than the institution itself," he said.
Dietz said the concerns and questions of GPSC members would be seriously entertained on this issue.
Sileven suggested council members e-mail suggestions and possible alternatives to the e-mail policy at the council's Hotmail address. Any future legislation on this issue will be drafted for vote at a later meeting.
In regard to the tuition issue, she said she believed the University's new figures showed progress from earlier proposals.
"This indicates that they were at least willing to listen to our concerns and make their adjustments in their number of projections based on those, which, maybe is the best we could have hoped for," Sileven said.
