Heather Mangan
The Student Association unanimously approved a $5,000 budget increase for the University Program Council for a budget total of $140,000.
At the Oct. 25 meeting, UPC President Kim Harer said UPC is asking for $12.78 per student – the same amount as last year. There is in increase in the budget because the number of students increased.
Harer said the extra money will be used for promotion.
“Basically we want to increase the promotion,” she said.
She said the UPC has increased the number events per semester from 14 to 21 in the last year.
The UPC received a $23,000 budget increase last year.
In other SA business:
* The SA decided to sponsor to an absence policy. SA President Amanda Mattingly said SDSU doesn’t currently have a policy indicating what type of action professors can or can’t take for too many unexcused absences.
She said that this resolution is something that she and SA Vice President Doug Timm have wanted to do since they were elected last spring.
She said the resolution will create a policy that says instructors can’t lower a student’s grade for a certain amount of unexcused absences.
“It’s something a lot of student – just visiting with them – are bothered by,” she said.
Mattingly met with Academic Senate Tuesday to discuss the resolution.
* Sen. Kristin Olsen of the College of Family and Consumer Sciences received the “Senator of the Week” award.
Mattingly said she went “above and beyond” her duties as senator this past week.
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