Student fees are not the answer. The library is asking for part of the student Technology Resource Fee funds to pay for electronic journals. In Tier I settings, libraries are not held hostage to student fees in order to provide electronic access to ordinary journals and indexes. It will not provide the access to technology that all OSU faculty and staff need. These expectations are appropriate for a university that plans to equip students with the knowledge they need to be productive, educated citizens in this electronic age.
Budgets are tight all over campus.
The increase in enrollment will provide both additional revenues and additional costs. In making these preliminary recommendations, the Computing Resources Committee has considered the need to provide for a stable infrastructure with some additional money from tuition. OSU must make an ongoing commitment to fund its information technology infrastructure so that every member of the faculty and staff can be provided with a basic level of information technology resources. The basic level should be the same across colleges and units. This is another area for further discussion.