2008 Woodie Awards
Carpenter explains SOC cuts
By: Stephanie Kiszczak
Issue date: 12/1/05 Section: News
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Students and faculty in the School of Communications (SOC) could breathe a little easier after learning the depth of budget cuts in their school.
Dean Deborah Carpenter held a special Media Advisory Council Meeting Nov. 16 addressing qualms about budget cuts. Six million dollars was the total amount cut from the university, with $51,000 from the SOC.
"This does not mean we are $6 million in the hole," Carpenter said, explaining the university is starting to budget for the 2006-2007 school year.
The $51,000 cut is less than one and a half percent of the entire SOC budget, Carpenter said.
Carpenter said the money the school had to work with dropped because of a 15 percent drop in military enrollment due to deployment to Iraq and a drop in undergraduate freshman enrollment.
Rumors had made their way across campus including the cutting of funding for student activities and non work-study student employment. Carpenter cleared the confusion by providing the dollar amount in areas that will undergo cuts and adding that work-study money and student jobs would not be affected.
Meeting attendees brainstormed their own ways to cut back on spending, like closing office doors and windows and making sure all lights are turned off at night to conserve electricity.
While not the most costly, one of the more surprising cuts was $6,000 from the debate and forensics team, whose members have been successful at the past few tournaments.
"I don't think either of us had expected for this big of a cut," said Scott Jensen, director of debate and forensics.
To compensate for such a drastic loss of funds, Scott Jensen said several tournaments would be cancelled. There will be a limit as to how many people could participate in tournaments, with the potential of cutting Webster's involvement in one of three national tournaments.
"We will have fewer people qualified for nationals because there will be fewer opportunities to do so," Scott Jensen said, adding students will have to work harder to qualify as a result.
Dean Deborah Carpenter held a special Media Advisory Council Meeting Nov. 16 addressing qualms about budget cuts. Six million dollars was the total amount cut from the university, with $51,000 from the SOC.
"This does not mean we are $6 million in the hole," Carpenter said, explaining the university is starting to budget for the 2006-2007 school year.
The $51,000 cut is less than one and a half percent of the entire SOC budget, Carpenter said.
Carpenter said the money the school had to work with dropped because of a 15 percent drop in military enrollment due to deployment to Iraq and a drop in undergraduate freshman enrollment.
Rumors had made their way across campus including the cutting of funding for student activities and non work-study student employment. Carpenter cleared the confusion by providing the dollar amount in areas that will undergo cuts and adding that work-study money and student jobs would not be affected.
Meeting attendees brainstormed their own ways to cut back on spending, like closing office doors and windows and making sure all lights are turned off at night to conserve electricity.
While not the most costly, one of the more surprising cuts was $6,000 from the debate and forensics team, whose members have been successful at the past few tournaments.
"I don't think either of us had expected for this big of a cut," said Scott Jensen, director of debate and forensics.
To compensate for such a drastic loss of funds, Scott Jensen said several tournaments would be cancelled. There will be a limit as to how many people could participate in tournaments, with the potential of cutting Webster's involvement in one of three national tournaments.
"We will have fewer people qualified for nationals because there will be fewer opportunities to do so," Scott Jensen said, adding students will have to work harder to qualify as a result.