1987-06-10; Central Michigan Life

              Central
Michigan
WEDNESDAY
June 10.1987
VOLUME 70. NUMBER 87
MOUNT PLEASANT. Ml 48859
c 1987 CM LIFE
8 PAGES
Board grants funds for park
BY KRIS HAHN
LIFE News E*!or
If all goes well, work on the
University Park development
project will continue through
the summer, thanks to a little
help from the Board of
Trustees.
The Board voted Friday to
provide up to $155,000 in
matching funds to the Middle
Michigan Development Corporation, so the firm can meet
federal requirements to receive
a $300,000 Economic Development Authority grant.
President Arthur Ellis
presented   a   proposal   to   the
Board Friday for the University
to provide the matching funds.
The proposal included a resolution authorizing Ellis to expend
up to $155,000 for the project.
The $300,000 MMDC is
trying to obtain is the
remainder of a $697,200 federal
EDA grant package, according
to Ellis' proposal. The grant
would be used to complete
phase one of the project, which
is an industrial park located
near West Campus Drive.
The government imposed a
June 1 deadline for MMDC, the
park's marketing agency, to
come up with matching funds.
The  June   1   deadline  was   a
Tuition hike granted
BY BRYAN LAVIOLETTE
LIFE Edtor
Student will definitely have to pay more in tuition fees to
attend CMU this fall
The Board of Trustees, with only five of eight trustees present at
Friday's meeting, unanimously passed a resolution raising tuition
$3 per credit hour. The tuition increases push tuition up to $52 per
credit hour.
Finance Committee Chairman William Odykirk, said $3 may be
too small an increase, at Thursday's Finance Committee meeting.
"In my own mind. I don't think we've gone far enough on
tuition," Trustee Odykirk said
President Arthur Ellis, who proposed the increase, said he is not
ready to talk ar>out how the extra SI.38 million dollars will be
used.
The $3 increase means students with 15 credit hours will pay
$45 more per semester than in 1US6-87.
The proposal states the tuition increase will "allow a halanced
University General Fund Budget, without further program
reductions"
Ellis said (he u.se of the money will l>e determined before the
.July 'J 4 Hoard meeting, when trustees will vole on the 1987-88
budget.
"Obviously the Hoard was satisfied with the information we
provided them." EUis said.
Ellis said it will not be possible to increase funding to all areas
o f t h e U nve rs i ty.
"You can't satisfy all the needs." Ellis said
During the Finance Committee meeting. Hoard members asked
Ellis to look into the cost of out-of-state tuition. The Board of
Trustee's resolution also raised out-of-state undergraduate tuition
to $133 a credit hour.
Provost Janice Reynolds said the University has only '/» percent
out-of-state residents.
"I jus* wonder if we're getting to the point where we're isolating
ourselves (from residents of other states)," Odykirk said. He said
students from other states provide a diversity at CMU.
Ellis said a study of out-of-state tuition may be conducted in
September, when more out-of-state graduates affected by the
increase will be on campus.
Graduate tuition for non-Michigan residents will rise to $153 a
credit hour.
six-month extension of a
deadline developers were given
last fall. However, developers
requested a further deadline
extension.
"The first deadline was a
little unrealistic," Public Works
Director Duane Ellis said. "We
received the grant in the fall,
and the deadline for completion
of construction was in the
middle of winter."
Ellis said no official extension has been granted, however
an EDA representative told
him an extension may be
possible.
The next step for completing
phase one is obtaining bidding
documents, according to
MMDC Executive Director
George Dunn. Advertisements soon will be placed to
reach potential contractors to
bid on the remainder of the
University Park project, he
added.
"That should be due in a
couple of weeks or so," Dunn
said. The bidding is handled
through the Mount Pleasant
Department of Public Works,
he said.
If no businesses decide to
build in University Park, the
money put up by CMU will
become a general fund expense,
according to Ellis* proposal.
Vacated!
A for sale sign remains in the front yard of the empty Tau
Kappa Epsilon house. 906 S. Main.
Scholarships offered as learning incentive
BY JACKIE RYNIAK
UFE M.i-vtrj.ng Ed lor
CMU has given several Detroit public school students added
encouragement to attend college by awarding IB incentive
scholarships aimed at assisting the economically disadvantaged.
Inner-city students, often in need of financial assistance to
facilitate education, are being given the opportunity to fulfill
requirements enabling them to receive 4-year scholarships to
CMU. Director of Admissions Michael Owens said.
Part of a seven Michigan college consortium, the scholarships
began at University of Michigan-Dearborn in conjunction with the
state's Martin Luther King — Rosa Parks minority assistance
program.
Including CMU's 10 eighth-graders and six ninth-graders.
Michigan 4-year college incentive scholarship recipients total 144
students, Owens said.
Motivation and funding needed to propel minority students
through high school and college are often thin when needed.
Owens said.
"A lot of their problems are economic, and little are due to ethnic
differences," Owens said.
Promised  financial  assistance  is designed to keep
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Duane Ellis said phase one
involves construction of an
access roadway to the park,
installing utilities and sewer
systems, constructing the pond
and planting shrubs and trees.
Most of phase one is completed,
he said.
Phase two involves more
planting and landscaping,
putting in footpaths which will
enhance the area aesthetically-
Torn Schumann, MMDC
director of small business
contacts, said businesses
always have been interested in
moving into the park, however
no companies have made
specific plans yet.
Sharing facility
may be answer
of rising costs
to insure CMU
BY BRYAN LAVIOLETTE
LIFE Editor	
CMU and several other
Michigan colleges soon may be
helping each other manage
high costs of liability insurance.
The CMU Hoard of Trustees
passed a resolution Friday
allowing President Arthur Ellis
to determine the University's
participation in the Michigan
Higher Education Risk-
Sharing Facility.
Jerry Scoby. director of
business services, said the
facility is an alternative to the
commercial insurance market.
The commercial market can Inexpensive, and insurance can
be unavailable at times as the
market runs in cycles.
Although he did not know of
any similar groups, Scoby said
the facility, which is scheduled
to begin operating July 1, is not
an original idea.
"This is clearly not the first
group of its kind," Scoby said.
The commercial market
encountered a rough period in
1985. and several institutions
decided to share costs and
insurance risks. Scoby said.
Scoby said eight schools have
given authority to their
administrations to determine
participation in the facility:
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