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Election Day is upon us! It’s like Christmas for political junkies like me. The height of civic engagement and patriotic fervor. The day when voters make their voice heard by going out to cast their ballot for the person they despise the very least and everyone else stays home to complain about both candidates and how utterly flawed our system is. Wait a minute, that’s not how my AP government textbook explained it…
The Board of Visitors recently voted to make major changes to AccessUVa, the University’s landmark financial aid program. The program was introduced in 2004 to meet 100 percent of demonstrated need for all students. For students whose family income was 200 percent of the federal poverty line or lower, AccessUVa replaced need-based loans with all-grant aid.
The Cavalier Daily recently reported on a joint meeting of the Board of Visitors’ Financial and Educational Policy committees (“University financial aid program beats out competitors” http://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2012/11/university-financial-aid-beats-out-competitors,” Nov. 10). The consultancy group it hired issued a lengthy report of proposed changes to AccessUVa, which we later picked through for nearly an hour on the University Financial Aid Committee. Comments from the Board took nearly as long. Meanwhile, one of the only things The Cavalier Daily piece reported was that the University of Virginia is underpriced compared to its peer institutions. But there are other critical elements to the decision of whether to raise tuition on middle class families at the University or, worse, whether to cut back on the University’s commitment to bright low-income students. None of them were reported.
Once again, The Cavalier Daily is missing the point (“Board room,” Sept. 5). Indeed it would be useful to have a voting member at the Honor Committee-sponsored roundtable. However, that voting member should be Hillary Hurd. The University is unique in its student self-governance, and the Committee itself is one of many examples that speak to its success. The broader concern here is that the student member does not have a vote to allow for real student efficacy on the Board. Hillary Hurd may not have a vote, but she changed her position on the ouster of President Teresa Sullivan weeks before any other Visitor. And like many of the “real” Visitors, it appears Ms. Hurd was largely left out of the initial decisions that led to Sullivan’s removal. She is as good as any other at illustrating the shortcomings of the insular processes the University Rector apparently employed in her machinations. Even if the Rector herself appeared on the panel, we could not expect anything but tight-lipped responses.