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BYU-Idaho is a place of constant change, and with a new president comes the promise of more change that will affect students.
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Kathryn L. Gaglione
GAG01001@BYUI.EDU
Religion Editor |
“[His desire to] lower tuition surprised me because it had been going up the last few years,” said Stacie Tryk, a senior from Rigby, Idaho. “It generally impressed me that [the administration] is trying to improve the quality of education for the students.”
While Jim Gee, vice president of student life, said the President’s Council is in beginning stages of planning these changes, current students might not be the ones to see their effects.
“I think the goal is good, is worthy, but we need to give it some time,” he said.
Whether it is changes in tuition or textbooks, the administration takes steps to assure that everyone has a voice in the change.
“Counseling and councils are important to us,” Gee said. “I hope that we really do follow through and act upon suggestions. The administration really does listen.”
Depending on the situation, the President’s Council, a group of administrators selected to advise the university president, follows several different steps in applying change.
When a problem or concern arises, it is introduced to the President’s Council for discussion. These concerns can go up the chain of command through the department to the college to the university, but Gee said problems can be taken directly to the administration during meetings or by appointment.
The President’s Council will review the information and then decide if changes would affect the entire university or only specific departments in the school.
Fenton Broadhead, dean of the College of Business and Communication, has seen many of these decisions come to him directly when the President’s Council asks him to come up with a plan on how to solve a problem.
“In my years of being here,” Broadhead said, “I’ve never felt a time when I couldn’t share my ideas with somebody.”
For campus-wide issues, the President’s Council makes decisions after a dialogue, and if they feel the issue needs more input, they turn to the expanded President’s Council that was created five years ago.
