By: Lauren Rovira/Asst. News Director
University President Mark Rosenberg is holding a town hall meeting at the Biscayne Bay Campus today to address the concerns of the University community.
Taking place from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m., the meeting will be held in the Wolfe University Center room 221.
In the past, town hall meetings have centered on the growth of the University and the requirements necessary to continue expanding.
The meeting will cover no specific topic, and instead will provide a forum for students to voice their questions, concerns and opinions. Any campus related ideas that students may have will be considered at the meeting.
This time around the meeting is sponsored by the Student Government Council at Biscayne Bay Campus.
In the meetings, students are allowed to pose questions to Rosenberg with a number of University issues.
In a previous meeting on April 6, 2011, Rosenberg said, “My expectations were exceeded here because we got excellent questions, the students stuck with it for the full two and half hours, and they dug in.”
“The president not only answered our questions, but there was a great turn out of student and faculty questions towards the president and other administration,” Denise Halpin, SGC-BBC president said then.
Shortly thereafter, Rosenberg unveiled the University’s Worlds Ahead Strategic Plan.
In an email to the University regarding the town hall meeting on April 14 where the plan was presented, Rosenberg said, “I would like to thank so many of you who have worked hard on our 5-year Worlds Ahead Strategic Plan.”
“For those of you who have been less involved in its development,” he said, “this town hall meeting is an opportunity to start thinking about how each and every one of us can contribute to the success of this plan and bring forward your comments and questions.”
Other town hall meetings have focused on budgeting issues.
The meeting held on May 19, 2011 focused on this very topic and sought to explain the correlation between budgeting and improving the quality of the education and experience students are taking away from the University.
At this meeting, Rosenberg explained to the audience that he was seeking to improve University-wide student services.
In an interview following the meeting, President Rosenberg told Student Media, “We want to provide more of the classes students need – that’s critical. We’re interested in having a much better advising system.”
“There will be additional police on both campuses. We’re in the process of hiring 10 new police,” he said. “We’re trying to provide a higher level of services. [As for a timetable] we want these done right now. I’m impatient. For this year we’ve hired 80 new faculty spread out throughout the University. You won’t find that in many universities in the country.”
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