Tag: budget

President Devorah Lieberman gave the State of the University address last Friday in the Campus Center Ballroom as part of Friday Focus, a series of monthly meetings that discuss specific topics about the University.

Lyceum, a program that organizes concerts, recitals, art exhibitions and other events on campus, has been defunded. Its dissolution has been attributed to budgetary issues, partly deriving from a decline in student enrollment for the 2017-18 academic year. Lawrence Potter, dean of the college of arts and sciences, created Lyceum in 2016 as a way of organizing music, theater, photography, art and art history departments under one program to highlight the co-curricular experience the university offers. 

Lyceum, a program that served as a hub for collaboration among various arts and humanities programs departments, has suffered a loss of funding as a result of University budget cuts. Not only does this result in the loss of visibility for ULV, but also for the humanities and arts departments. 

The University of La Verne has reached its “2020 Strategic Vision” fundraising goal of a $100 million endowment. But fundraising efforts have not offset the financial problems caused by the sudden dip in enrollments this academic year at the tuition dependent University.

People making $250,000 or less per year may face a tax increase after the 2018 budget was approved by the U.S. House Oct. 19 with all Republican and no Democratic votes.

Last month Mexico City suffered a devastating 7.1 magnitude earthquake that left more than 200 dead. Fortunately, the seismic warning system that has been in place since 1991 successfully gave the population crucial seconds to flee vulnerable buildings and prepare for the worst. The United States, however, has no such system in place; if an earthquake were to hit California, people would have no way of knowing with some advanced warning and that would decrease their chances of getting to safety. The technology already exists, so there is no excuse as to why the U.S. government has not implemented it while our neighbors south of us have.