Student funding committee sees high turnover

The Fee Allocation Committee (FAC) has had five representatives step down or graduate thus far during the 2017-2018 academic year. FAC is one of the Associated Student Government’s (ASG) committees and serves as a preliminary evaluator of the bills that ASG will vote upon.

ASG’s high-spending trend continues

The Associated Student Government (ASG) passed five bills to send club sports teams to their regional and national championships during their Feb. 14 meeting. Two of these bills, for the Nordic and Alpine ski teams and the hockey team, were later cut completely during conference committee.

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Discussion during the process centered around fiscal responsibility, especially regarding bills for the club ski teams and the club swim team to attend their national championships.

WCCC leader stepped down due to lagging enrollment

Last week Western Colorado Community College Vice President Dennis Bailey-Fougnier resigned in person to Colorado Mesa University President Tim Foster. The resignation resulted from differences of opinion regarding boosting struggling enrollment. No formal letter of resignation has yet been submitted.

“President Foster and Dennis Bailey-Fougnier have a lot of commonality in their vision for where they’d like to see WCCC go,” CMU Director of Media Relations Dana Nunn said. “They had different views of how to get there. Between the two of them, they decided it was better for them to part ways.”

KMSA misses payment, loses streaming

KMSA 91.3 recently experienced a month-long down period for their online streaming service. Questions had been raised about what was taking them so long to fix the issue and whether they cared.

KMSA General Manager Chase Morris explained that the issue was a combination of technical difficulties and the loss of important information during a trade-off of management.

“That information with our login and our payment information was actually lost at the same time that we were switching management at the station,” Morris said.

Faculty Senate proceeds with caution over public wording

The Feb. 15 meeting of the Faculty Senate picked up where it left off two weeks ago: addressing the issue originally called “unprofessional faculty departures.” Most of the meeting involved debating the wording and amending the motion that had called for the Faculty Success Committee (FSC) to analyze the departures of faculty members shortly before or after semesters began.  

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Faculty Senate President Josh Butler opened the meeting by reminding senators their meetings are open to the public, including the press. He stated that senators should, therefore, be judicious about the words they use.

This reminder came on the heels of rumors that some faculty senators were uncomfortable following the coverage of their last meeting in The Criterion article “Unprofessional faculty departures.”