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For the second year in a row, the board of regents has approved a tuition increase recommendation of less than 5 percent. In-state undergraduate students attending university system campuses will pay only $27 to $52 more per semester than last year.
The board approved an across-the-board 4.5 percent increase, effective with the fall semester of 1999, at their monthly meeting held April 21 at Savannah State University. The regents also approved tuition increases for the university system’s graduate programs ranging from $85 to $113, and the continuation of tuition reforms that include cost differentials for selective professional programs at the University of Georgia, Georgia State University and the Georgia Institute of Technology.
In the fall semester of 1999, resident undergraduate tuition at the university system’s research institutions will increase from $1,155 to $1,207 per semester for in-state students, a $52 difference over last year. Undergraduate tuition at the system’s regional and state universities and four-year colleges will increase by $39 for in-state students, from $865 to $904 per semester. At the two-year colleges, resident tuition will increase by $27 from the previous year, from $590 to $617 per semester.
Textbook drive for Mongolia
Clanton Black, a Research Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, is spearheading a drive to take textbooks to students in Mongolia, where he spent last August through January 1999 teaching on a Fulbright lectureship. His experience at the National University of Mongolia convinced him that help for the students is badly needed.
“I was surprised and even shocked to find that students at the university do not have textbooks,” said Black. “In a few courses, old Russian texts are around. But neither I nor my wife [who was teaching grade school there] saw one student with a textbook. No current English, Russian or Mongolian texts are available in any subject that I am aware of, with the exception of economics and political science where other Americans and Westerners had been through and provided a few books.”
Black will be returning to Mongolia this summer and is asking UGA students willing to donate their undergraduate textbooks on any subject to send them by campus mail to room
A-314 in the life sciences building or bring them by the biochemistry office in the life sciences building. He will make sure that the books are sent to Mongolia and given to students who desperately need them. He stressed that the situation is critical, and any books given now would be tremendously appreciated by students in Mongolia.
For more information, call Black at 542-1778 or e-mail him at ccblack@arches.uga.edu.
Goldwater Scholarships
Melissa Bugbee, a genetics and ecology double major from Watkinsville, and Rachel J. Wisniewski, a chemical oceanography major from Columbia, Md., recently earned the prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship. The scholarship covers eligible expenses for tuition, fees, books, and room and board, up to a maximum of $7,500 annually.
Bugbee, a junior, is a member of Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Beta Kappa and Golden Key honor societies. She is also a Foundation Fellow and the recipient of a National Merit Scholarship and a Georgia Scholar Governor’s Scholarship. After graduating, Bugbee plans to pursue a career in evolutionary biology.
Wisniewski, a junior, is a member of the national honorary societies Alpha Lambda Delta and Golden Key. She was awarded the Charter Scholarship, an out-of-state student scholarship, and a Mortar Board Scholarship.
The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program was established by the U.S. Congress in 1986 to honor the late Sen. Barry M. Goldwater, who served for 56 years as a soldier and statesman.
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