Faculties face further budget cuts in fall 2010
By Michal Tellos
News Editor
October 21, 2009
As has occurred in recent years, departments of the faculty of arts and social sciences (FASS) will be required to cut 10 per cent from their budget by fall 2010.
 This could cause any number of changes in the structure of each faculty, however, since 85 per cent of FASS’s budget goes toward staff and faculty, cutting people is almost the only way to save money.
“If you’re going to reduce the base budget, you can cut the lights, you can reduce the heating and ask people to wear hoodies everyday. You can do all sorts of things, but fundamentally, you have to reduce the number of people working at the university,” said Cecil Houston, dean of FASS.
This is of great concern to many staff members of FASS, especially sessional instructors. >>
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UWSA hosts town-hall meeting with OUSA
By Michal Tellos
News Editor
October 21, 2009
On October 8, the UWSA hosted a town-hall meeting which the Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance attended, as did members of UWindsor’s administration, including president Alan Wildeman.
 Topics discussed include OSAP, financial aid, tuition, student success and the future of post-secondary education in a post-Reaching Higher era.
Reaching Higher was a provincial government-enacted regulation to help control the rise of tuition fees by limiting the rise to a maximum of 5 per cent. As of this year. Reaching Higher is no longer in effect.
Tuitions are expected to keep growing.
UWSA vice president of university affairs, Robert Woodrich, was responsible for planning the meeting, and he was happy with the results. >>
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Two honorary degrees conferred
By Theo Wolski
Lance Writer
October 21, 2009
The graduates of this weekend’s University of Windsor convocation ceremony were addressed by two very important members of Canadian foreign affairs.
 Craig Kielburger, founder of the Free the Children organization, received an honorary Doctor of Humanities degree from the University and spoke at the 10 a.m. ceremony.
Derek H. Burney, meanwhile, former ambassador to the U.S. from 1989-1993 received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree at the 4 p.m. proceedings.
Kielburger created his organization in 1995 from his classroom in Thornhill, Ontario with the aim of freeing children across the globe from poverty and exploitation and empowering youth with the knowledge that they are not powerless to effect change in the world.
Lori Lewis, a spokesperson for the university, identified Kielburger as an ideal example of the morals that UWindsor wishes to promote.
“He is a perfect example of the values we would like to promote about social justice and social change” said Lewis. >>
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