Engineers need new technology
Stacey Simmers
Capital Times Staff
Find excess spending. Make the
necessary cuts. Increase the quality of the
education.
University administrators made this
proposal to every campus in order to save
$1.3 million in a three year period.
This plan fits perfectly with the plan
made by Guatam Ray, director of the
school of science engineering technology,
Students suggest
Ann Feeney-McGovern
Capital Times Staff
Attendance at the Student's Strategic explaining Dr. Leventhal's proposed
Planning Open Meeting on Monday, Sept. budget adjustments for the college.
14 in the Gallery Lounge was sparse, but "These are permanent budget adjustments--
the ideas and recommendations from the not temporary as in the past. This year
students were abundant.
Headed by Dr. Ernest K. Dishner, budget by 3 percent," he said.
associate provost and dean of faculty, and Rich Howarth, a senior in
Dr. Jerry South, associate provost for communications, suggested that the
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to improve his program.
Ray has kept empty positions vacant
since he came to Penn State Harrisburg
last year so that he could fill them with
people who can offer students knowledge
of new technologies.
"I didn't want to fill the positions to
just to get them filled," Ray said. "I want
to assess important areas of technology
and recruit to fill those positions."
It is important to see what's not
began promptly at 4 p.m. and ran until
5:30.
Dishner began the meeting by
we have been mandated to decrease our
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working and replace it with something
better, Ray said.
New technologies cost money, of
course. Ray hopes to get a cansiderable
amount of money back in the form of so
called enhancement funds.
Programs are asked to reevaluate
spending and make cutbacks. After the
cuts are made, programs will get back so
called enhancement funds.
These funds should be used to augment
programs that show the most promise.
fundraisers
facilities in a collaborative effort to let When questioned regarding Provost
the community use our technological Leventhal's absence, Dishner replied that
equipment. Leventhal would rather have the comments
He also suggested salary caps for and ideas come to her through Dishner and
faculty and staff. South.
Another participant recommended She was concerned that people would
renting office space in the Eastgate center. see her presence as a defense of her plan,
Disher said that the administration is which was not the goal of the meetings.
still exploring ways to expand the When asked about the poor student
college's summer programs. "Summer is a response to the meetings, South said, "It's
time when we can generate income for the not the number of contributions that are
campus," he said. made, but rather the quality (of ideas
contributed)."
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These enhancements could range from
two to 10 percent of what the department
gave up.
It's possible that a department could get
more in so-called enhancements than it
gave up originally.
Ray hopes to have this happen for his
already lean program.
Budget cuts this year have resulted only
in an increase in class size, so far.
But Ray said that classes should have
gotten larger anyway.
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