ASR finalizes allocations to student organizations
Groups ask for more funds than usual, but get less
Sneha Janardhanan
Issue date: 4/23/10 Section: News
The Association of Student Representatives (ASR) began the process of allocating the student activity fee for 2010-2011 yesterday, when the group allocated to five chartered organizations, Recreational Sports and Campus Publication. All seven groups received less than they requested, though ASR still had groups' allocations, because funding requests this year were unusually high.
Next semester, ASR will allocate funds to the non-chartered organizations, the umbrella groups under TDC and other individual groups/event organizers who previously went to TIGER Council for funding, before a reorganization of the funding distribution system this year. These groups will be allowed to request funding beginning next academic year.
There has been no increase in the student activity fee. Even though budget requests by organizations increased drastically, the money ASR had to give out didn't increase.
The $275,000 that ASR has to allocate is 95 percent of what the student activity fee was last year. This number was being used as a conservative estimate as tuition fees won't be paid until this summer.
"The reason that we are being so conservative with these numbers is because we'd rather underfund than overfund, knowing that groups can come back and request money later on again if they need it," said Vice President Kathryn Fulkerson.
Last night's decision was made by the 15 voting members of ASR. Voting members do not include the President Emmalee Bannon, Fulkerson or the two co-advisers, David Tuttle, dean of students and director of Residential Life, and Raphael Moffett, director of Campus and Community Involvement.
The funding allocation process has been almost a month long.
"We are taking it very slowly, taking it very carefully, making sure everybody's doing the best job that we can," Fulkerson said.
Chartered organizations include Trinity Ambassadors, Trinity University Volunteer Action Community (TUVAC), Student Programming Board (SPB), Trinity Diversity Connection (TDC) and Greek Council.
Next semester, ASR will allocate funds to the non-chartered organizations, the umbrella groups under TDC and other individual groups/event organizers who previously went to TIGER Council for funding, before a reorganization of the funding distribution system this year. These groups will be allowed to request funding beginning next academic year.
There has been no increase in the student activity fee. Even though budget requests by organizations increased drastically, the money ASR had to give out didn't increase.
The $275,000 that ASR has to allocate is 95 percent of what the student activity fee was last year. This number was being used as a conservative estimate as tuition fees won't be paid until this summer.
"The reason that we are being so conservative with these numbers is because we'd rather underfund than overfund, knowing that groups can come back and request money later on again if they need it," said Vice President Kathryn Fulkerson.
Last night's decision was made by the 15 voting members of ASR. Voting members do not include the President Emmalee Bannon, Fulkerson or the two co-advisers, David Tuttle, dean of students and director of Residential Life, and Raphael Moffett, director of Campus and Community Involvement.
The funding allocation process has been almost a month long.
"We are taking it very slowly, taking it very carefully, making sure everybody's doing the best job that we can," Fulkerson said.
Chartered organizations include Trinity Ambassadors, Trinity University Volunteer Action Community (TUVAC), Student Programming Board (SPB), Trinity Diversity Connection (TDC) and Greek Council.
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