This is the way the world is educationally in 1997. The initiative was designed over the past three years to use multimedia to increase the exchange of information between students and faculty. UCLA should change its communication systems to correspond to that, he added. There is no set design for the websites, but they will include basic course information. However, because SFAC is only an advisory group, Chancellor Charles E. Young overrode their veto and approved the fee before he retired.
Some students wonder if the upgrade in technology is necessary.
It is unfortunate that the chancellor made this decision without taking into consideration SFAC's position. Originally, funding for such technology projects came from grants, gifts and temporary funding. However, these limited budgets never allowed the university to create programs on such a large scale, university officials argue. The revenues will only be used to support the initiative, and the fee will remain frozen for the next three years, after which the program's effectiveness will be evaluated. Administrators emphasize that the focus of this issue should not be the fee, but the educational enhancement.