CAMPUS NEWS JSSBa 13 Tuition Per Semester For Full-Time Lower-Division PA Residents 7000 6000 5000 o CT3 cz c o 4000 3000 2000 1000 CAMPUS CONSTRUCTION Metzgar building: BY HEATHER MCGOVERN University officials hope that eventually, the Robert and Sally Metzgar Admis sions and Alumni Center will be a portal for campus. The first thing students go to for admissions, the first thing they come back to for alumni relations. For now, it serves a differ ent purpose: headlining as the largest of many con struction projects at Behrend. (BE, to separate buildings for various admis sions offices, Behrend de cided to consolidate the admissions and alumni of fices into a newly con structed building in between the Kochel Center and Reed Union Building. The Robert and Sally Met zgar Admissions and Alumni Center aims to make it easier for students to ac cess Behrend’s career guid ance. It will be the “go-to” building for college career consultation. The construction, which began during the month of April 2009, is estimated to extend as far in the future as May 2010. The building is 1995 2000 Year estimated to cost around $4.7 million and cover an area of 11,700 square feet. According to the Penn State Behrend website, it will house the offices of five key departments—admis sions, financial aid, alumni relations, bursar, and regis trar —in one central loca tion. new:, editor The convenience of hav ing all five departments in one location will hopefully appeal to students pursuing careers on campus and all visiting alumni. . Thanks to a request made tty'the Metzgars, architec ture students have the op portunity to incorporate personal designs modeling specific structures: the Met zgars’ house, Cobham Cas tle, the Glenhill Farmhouse, Lilley Library, Kochel Cen ter, and Reed Union Build ing. Incorporation of student design into the Ad missions and Alumni Center “The center will be the first place Penn State Behrend students visit on campus, and it will be the same building that wel comes them back as alumni,” remarks Chancel lor Jack Burke on Penn State Behrend website. The primary donors for the Admission and Alumni 2005 2010 brick by brick, a portal for Behrend Center were no other than Robert and Sally Metzgar, donating a generous $2 mil lion to aid the construction project. Robert Metzgar, an influ ential Penn State alumnus, attended Penn State Behrend for two years whereupon he finished his business administration de gree at University Park. Metzgar’s post-graduation involvement far exceeds the devotion typically extended towards Penn State by alumni. As listed on the Penn State Universi; web site, Met*jgar' part of “the Penn Statfr Behrend Council of Fellows, the Nittany Lion Club, the President’s Club, and a life member of the Penn State Alumni Association.” Metz gar is a well deserving indi vidual to name the new Admissions and Alumni building after. Addition of the Metzgar building will only simplify current student’s academic pursuits. “There’s a whole lot less running around for students during their college careers and a lot less running around for family during the admission process,” says Ken Miller. Tuition continues to in crease each year as shown by the graph on left. Year and tuition statis tics given by Sue Scarpino, Coordinator for Public Information Over the summer, work often stagnated on the new building due to that steel structures will begin to take precedence in the Tuition increase continued from front page. I’ve been here and this is my 29th year. I would say that there is a chance, but I don’t think that’s going to happen. The university would more than likely try to muddle through. They have al ready told us to prepare for the possibility of temporary budget cuts during the year. “And I’ve been here long enough to know, that you always prepare for cuts because I’ve said that we’ve had cuts every year this century. ” Miller said that there is a chance the tuition will increase between semesters, but that is a nightmare scenario and has a low chance of occurring. “It depends a lot on the state budget,” said Miller. “There is a lot that Behrend is changing as far as frugality, not saying we’re not already frugal, to cut costs and save money.” Burke explained that Penn State is anticipating another de- crease in money from the state, although the university doesn’t know the number yet. “1 can tell you that every year in this century we have had budget cuts at the university,” said Burke. “We’ve raised our tuition but in addition to that, we’ve had budget cuts and the reason for the budget cuts primarily is be cause the state appropriation, the money we get from the state, has been either frozen or gone down. “And in addition to that, we’ve added 14,000 students to our uni versity because people want to go (to Penn State), but then the state appropriation does not fol low. The state appropriation is not tied to the number of stu dents.” Looking forward to next year, Burke is uncertain about what the tuition situation. He said that a lot depends on what happens in the economy. “I think what is kind of keeping the state of float at the moment is the stimulus money or the promise of stimulus money. Daniel Smith / The Behrend Beacon various holdups. University officials say construction area this week.
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