If you decide to criticize Chancellor Wiley, you should do more thorough research on the funding system. Wiley can't allocate funding to wherever he sees fit. He can't take Elvehjem funding or residence-hall dollars, let alone private donations, and just hand it to you so your tuition decreases.
Those funds come into the university contingent on being spent on projects that are separate from our tuition. Our residence halls are a self-sustaining business; none of your tuition goes into them, so none of their dollars should end up in your pocket. The students whose money is going into the residence halls deserve adequate housing. Dealing with construction is a hassle, but it's rather selfish to push it off on future students.
While you criticize Wiley for failing to take affordable education into account, consider the hundreds of scholarships he personally lobbies for so that opportunities can be provided to lower income families.
If you looked ahead, you might realize the value Wiley's plans add to the quality of our education, in housing and in the quality of our faculty and programs brought in by high-caliber facilities. The improvements don't simply make our campus \prettier,"" as you stated. They make the best use of the resources our university has to offer.??Do you want to pay less for a lower quality education? My family doesn't.''??
