Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
Dr. Grube Reverses Course on Student Fees?
Jake Hallman got a chance to talk with Dr. Grube in an article in the paper yesterday. Some interesting comments came out of the interview, the biggest of which was in regards to student fees.
Grube has no doubts that GSU will eventually enter the FBS, but said the university has to balance its checkbook while making the move. That means a lot of private financial support, not student fee money.
“There’s some room for movement on student fees. That would require students to be in support of that,” Grube said.
It’s good to see that we are getting closer to being on the same page, a modest increase in fees could net the University an additional $1M which is more than Southern Boosters has ever ponied up in a single year.
With that said, I personally think it must also be mandated that our Southern Boosters program be able to match any increase by students fees (if not set goals for even more than that). Additionally, we must be able to find donors and match them to projects specifically sought to facilitate the move up. I think that we now see that our officials are telling us that concessions have been made on every front … it’s now up to the study, our next leaders, and our boosters to carry the torch.
As Grube noted, “I can’t take a business plan that’s not real to the Board of Regents,” Grube said. “We need to do it right.”
And that’s all the I-A proponents ever wanted I believe, as Erk said often, “Do right.”
Here’s hoping our new leaders are willing to take on this challenge. It’d be awful nice to see our current leaders lend them a helping hand however.
