L,l I J\c;)c)_-LJ - .;lo-~o M?j 1, 19'1(, MSU ARCHIVES MSU Clip Sheet A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1689 606-783-2030 THE COURIER-JOURNAL • WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1996 'UK_ trustees approve increases in· tuition, housing fees in fall By RICHARD WII.SON called "benchmark" school - the istration fees were also increased. Staff Writer · University of Tennessee at Knoxville The overall increase in tuition and - .. has a lower housing and dining fees means that full-time undergrad­ LEXINGTON, Ky.,-The cost of at­ rate than UK. (Benchmark schools uates from Kentucky will pay $1,338 tending the University of Kentucky is are comparable universities in nearby per semester, an increase of 3.5 per­ going up again after action yesterday states that UK uses to make compari­ cent. A $1 fee increase will support ay UK's board of trustees. sons on such things as tuition and the student health services program. The board ratified tuition increases fees.) Undergraduate tuition for out-of­ already approved by the state Council Several students said that they un­ state stutlents will rise from $3,390 to on Higher Education for the 1996-97 derstood the need for the increases, $3,510 per semester. schoor year, and it raised fees and but that the fee hikes would pinch "Obviously, as an out-of-state stu­ room and board rates as well. their budgets. den~ this (tuition . increase) hits me In recent years - as the rise in "I ~ess the increases are neces­ harder,'' said Alison Ki!1ht, a sopho­ state support.has slowed- tuition in­ sary,' said ·Jason Dattilo, a Louisville more from San FrancISco. "But I creases at state universities have be­ juruor. Even with them, he added, it's know tuition increases are just a part come routine. still cheaper to live on campus than in of college life." Jack Blanton, vice chancellor of ad­ an off-campus apartment. The board also approved room and ministration for the Lexington cam­ The room and board rate for stu­ board rates for the Lees College cam­ pus, told the trustees' finance com­ dents living in most UK dormitories pus of Hazard Community College, mittee that the latest increases were will go up 3.9 percent - from $3,078 where the rate will be $2,900 per year necessary to cover UK's 'increased this year to $3,198 beginning in the for double occupancy. costs of supplying housing and food. fall. Tuition ·for undergraduate Ken­ Lees, a .former private college in He said that no state money sup­ tucky residents on the Lexington Jackson that ran into financial diffi­ ports .UK's housing and dining pro­ campus will go up $40 a semester - culties, becomes a part of the UK gram. He also said that only one so- from $1,130 to $1,170. Mandatory reg- community college system July I. LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1996 LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1996 UK faculty to benefit. ,. A boost from retirel1lent plan for the .Bard approved· by board Students say. yes to Shakespeare AsSOCIATED PRESS BY BRIAN BENNETT pressed interest in phased retire­ WASHINGTON - It might be the unkindest cut of HERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITER ment for some time. Officials adopt­ all. English majors at Georgetown University no longer Tenured faculty members at the ed the plan after studying similar have to take courses on two of 'three literary masters - University of Kentucky now can programs at universities across the Shakespeare, Chaucer and Milton. And Georgetown is not alone. ease into retirement instead of giv­ country, Lawson said. ing up teaching all at once, thanks to In other action by the trustees . "The problem is national. Shakespeare and other a measure approved by the universi­ yesterday: : classics are being replaced at many colleges by courses ty's board of trustees yesterday. ■ The board approved increas­ on sex and politics," says Jerry L. Martin, president of Under the new phased retire­ es in tuition, fees and room and the National Alumni Forum. ment program, tenured professors board rates for the 1996-97 school The group, which says it has members on more who have worked full-time at UK year. than 200 campuses, led a "Saving Shakespeare" rally for at least 15 years and are 65 or In-state tuition and fees for full­ just off the Georgetown campus yesterday. older are eligible. They can choose. time undergraduates will be $1,338 Univei:sity officials say that Shakespeare hasn't to reduce their workload by half a semester, an increase of 3.5 per­ been reqmr_ed at Georgetown for at least 20 years but and receive half their pay for up to cent. Non-resident undergraduates that the un1vers1ty teaches nine Shakespeare courses a three years. will pay $3,678 for tuition and fees. year, m?i:e than.the average 2.6 courses offered at other Faculty members must choo_se Tuition and fees at.Lexington umvers1t1es of comparable size. the option within one year of gain­ Community College wili be $978 a . Under t~~ old requirements, viewed as too· restric­ ing eligibility, and their requests semester, a $1 increase. At the re, t1v~ and failing t? emphasize writing skills, English must be approved by UK President maining 13 community colleges, tu­ maiors were required to take courses on two of three Charles Wethington. ition will be raised 2 percent to $500. inaior authors. Wethington said yesterday that Room and board rates at the _Now they are required to take four courses from because the university no longer Lexington campus will be $3,198 their :hosen c~· centration: literature and literary histo­ has a mandatory retirement age, for two semesters, a 3.8 percent in­ rr, r<J .ture a, .d r erformance or writing. They also must the program can help departments crease. ',il,e . wo .,. ,:r,, J _)utside their concentration and two plan for the loss of faculty. ■ The trustees also authorized focusing L: ·... ..1te .al before 1850. "This benefits both the univer­ · university officials to negotiate If Shakespeare is out, what is in? Martin asks. sity · and faculty members," leases that would permit commer­ . Browsing college catalogs, Martin found courses Wethington said. cial developments at Colpstrearn titled "Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction," "AIDS and Robert Lawson, assistant to the Research Campus, off Newtown Representation,'' "Representing Sexualities in Words president for administrative affairs, Pike near the Interstate 64-75 inter- and Image" -:- courses and topics that he says sound said UK faculty members have ex- change. · more hke sociology than literature. The Daily Independent, Ashland, Kentucky, Tuesday, April 30, 1996 And the wall ••• Governor pledges that region will no longer be ignored by Frankfort What was that crashing greatest potential for long­ sound heard in Hazard Fri- range ·economic development, day night? Could it have but mpre important, the gov­ been the crumbling of the ernor apparently shares that last vestiges of the proverbial view. Winchester Wall? For years, county and mu- Paul Patton, the first gov- nicipal officials from Ash­ ernor from eastern Kentucky land to Pineville have com­ since Bert Combs, returned plained that the economic to the mountains Friday to needs of eastern • Kentucky pledge that the region no were ignored - that the pow­ longer will be ignored by the ers-that-be in Frankfort rare­ cabinet secretaries and the ly looked east of Winchester. power brokers in Frankfort. The Winchester Wall could Speaking at the annual never be found on any map, East Kentucky Leadership but in the minds of many. in Conference, the governor eastern Kentucky, it was just pledged to personally chair as real as if it had been built the Kentucky Appalachian with bricks arid mortar. Commission, a group formed . In pledging that his admin­ last October. Commission istration will give special at­ members - which also will tention to the mountains, include cabinet secretaries, a Patton also said that the re­ county judge-executive,: a · gion must help itself.· He's mayor and a school superin- right. tendent - will work closely The Winchester Wall was with the Kentucky Ap- not built completely by those palachian Advisory Council, in Frankfort; long-standing a grassroots citizens' group. regional problems added . As part of his interest in bricks to it. To be able to developing his native region, successfully compete for the Patton said he wants to make jobs of tomorrow, the people a . multicounty industrial of eastern Kentucky must park -,i>.Ianned for Greenup continue to improve their County - a ,model for others public schools, raise the level like it across eastern Ken- of education among adults, tucky. He· has promised the eliminate the political fief­ support of the state in devel- doms that continue to thwart oping a parkway from U.S. 23 progress in some counties, near Wurtland to I-64, to con- and clean up: our hillsides struct infrastructure needed and creekbanks. Elected for a multipurpose park, and county and city officials also to. develop a plan for the must exhibit more of a will­ park. ingness to work together for Such enthusiastic support the common good. from the state's top executive For the first time in three , will be a major boost for the decades, Kentucky has a gov- I proposed 2,000-acre park, ernor committed to helping. I which is being developed ·· this region. It now is up to i through the cooperative ef- ·tlie people of eastern Ken- forts of Boyd, Greenup, Law- tucky to come up with new rence, Carter and Elliott ideas and creative programs counties.