Student senators encouraged Ohio University officials to consider restructuring certain scholarships in a resolution adopted at last night's meeting.
The Founder's Award and the Valedictorian Award, both scholarships for incoming freshmen, are set at fixed amounts and are becoming less valuable as tuition increases, said Cory Shafer, senator for the college of engineering.
We want to have the scholarship committee consider changing the Founder's Award and the Valedictorian Award to a percentage system
he said.
Leslie Linder, senator for the College of Fine Arts, said the $3,500 Founder's Award covered 58 percent of tuition last year but only 51 percent this year. The $1,000 Valedictorian Award was worth 17 percent of tuition last year and only 15 percent this year.
Ryan Mick, academic affairs commissioner, said the university's performance standards to maintain scholarships have not changed, but the scholarship's values have.
It's disconcerting because every year students have to search for more and more scholarships he said. There's plenty of money floating around the university but it needs to be allocated correctly.
The resolution was adopted unanimously.
In other Student Senate news:
- Vice President Melissa Naroski announced the appointment of senator Jen Price as off-campus life commissioner and senator Linsey Pecikonis as women's affairs commissioner. The senate also adopted four resolutions naming students Dan Fornal and Kate Kryder as new West Green senators, Ashley Jackson as a South Green senator and Justin Curtis as a senator at-large.
- International affairs commissioner Julie Waters corrected a statement she made last week about the closing of Mill Street Apartments. She previously said the closing had been delayed until August but has since been told the apartments will close on June 30 unless a resident has a specific problem.
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