Argersinger said there is a task force on feasibility forming, and that research on the undergraduate and graduate levels is very important. The entire university and surrounding communities can be research incubators. Argersinger also said that doing more business and research online will be very important. Dodds asked if the administration would start listening more closely to what students have to say. Argersinger said yes, it's a novel idea.
Students communicate better with other students than with administration.
Argersinger felt that it is fundamental to get to know students and listen to the constituency groups. Speck asked for further explanation of the deferred maintenance problems here. Argersinger was not sure about exact figures, but said that there are many more millions of dollars in problems than in the budget. There has been a trend of decentralizing the problems without ensuring adequate resources and mechanisms for coping. Consequently, all the players feel like losers in the budget.