CLCE to send students to Obama inauguration
Nick DeMoss
Issue date: 12/3/08 Section: News
Forty UA students could have a chance to travel to the historic inauguration of Barack Obama if the UA Center for Leadership and Community Engagement can secure the money.
The experience would be what representatives from the CLCE call "an educational bus trip" to the nation's capital.
The four-day trip would begin Jan. 17 and students and staff would return Jan. 21, said Adrain Smith, assistant director for the CLCE. Smith is the chief coordinator of the program.
The application process for students will begin in the next two weeks, pending the allocation of funds from several sources, Smith said.
Students who want to be considered for the trip have to submit a two-page essay in addition to personal information. The topic of the essay still is being debated, but it will probably focus on how the student's experience on the trip could help the UA as a whole, Smith said.
However, the application process will not begin until funding is secure, Smith said.
The projected cost of the trip is about $22,000 to cover lodging, charter buses, educational materials and miscellaneous expenses, Smith said.
The proposed fund allocation as it was presented to the Associated Student Government is: $10,000 from the ASG, $4,000 from Residents' Interhall Congress, $2,000 from Housing Initiatives for Student Success (HISS funds), $1,000 from the Multicultural Center and $1,000 from the Division of Student Affairs, ASG Treasurer Ben Hale said in an e-mail.
After the funding is secured, the leftover cost to students will be $150 to help cover lodging, transportation and some meals, Smith said.
However, Hale expressed several concerns about the ASG's proposed bill allocating its share of the money.
"I believe some fundamental problems with this piece of legislation were never addressed," Hale said in an e-mail to the ASG senate.
While the bill in question proposes a $10,000 donation from the ASG, Hale said the CLCE only had requested half of that. The extra money was added to match the funding given to the "Rolling with the Razorbacks" program because both programs are designed to provide transportation for students.
The experience would be what representatives from the CLCE call "an educational bus trip" to the nation's capital.
The four-day trip would begin Jan. 17 and students and staff would return Jan. 21, said Adrain Smith, assistant director for the CLCE. Smith is the chief coordinator of the program.
The application process for students will begin in the next two weeks, pending the allocation of funds from several sources, Smith said.
Students who want to be considered for the trip have to submit a two-page essay in addition to personal information. The topic of the essay still is being debated, but it will probably focus on how the student's experience on the trip could help the UA as a whole, Smith said.
However, the application process will not begin until funding is secure, Smith said.
The projected cost of the trip is about $22,000 to cover lodging, charter buses, educational materials and miscellaneous expenses, Smith said.
The proposed fund allocation as it was presented to the Associated Student Government is: $10,000 from the ASG, $4,000 from Residents' Interhall Congress, $2,000 from Housing Initiatives for Student Success (HISS funds), $1,000 from the Multicultural Center and $1,000 from the Division of Student Affairs, ASG Treasurer Ben Hale said in an e-mail.
After the funding is secured, the leftover cost to students will be $150 to help cover lodging, transportation and some meals, Smith said.
However, Hale expressed several concerns about the ASG's proposed bill allocating its share of the money.
"I believe some fundamental problems with this piece of legislation were never addressed," Hale said in an e-mail to the ASG senate.
While the bill in question proposes a $10,000 donation from the ASG, Hale said the CLCE only had requested half of that. The extra money was added to match the funding given to the "Rolling with the Razorbacks" program because both programs are designed to provide transportation for students.
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J
posted 12/03/08 @ 3:37 PM CST
We're paying for this!!! Too expensive for too few to go
skeptical
posted 12/03/08 @ 3:43 PM CST
Maybe those essays will convince me otherwise, but I don't see how this trip will produce $10,000 worth of value to the university.
Shayne Henry
posted 12/03/08 @ 4:07 PM CST
I'm an ASG senator from Fulbright College. The ASG reconsidered the matter last night in Senate, and we decided to cut our contribution from $10,000 to $5,000. (Continued…)
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