Email Template for Communication with Your Legislators

To make a difference on this issue, you may contact KSU’s Senators. Senator Chip Rogers may be contacted through his website at http://www.senatorchiprogers.com/ and Senator John Wiles at http://www.johnwiles.com/. A template for your conversation with them is below:

I am a concerned student at Kennesaw State University.

On Feb. 24^th, the Atlanta Journal Constitution published an article entitled, “College tuition hikes get support from strapped lawmakers” (http://blogs.ajc.com/gold-dome-live/2010/02/24/college-tuition-hikes-get-support-from-strapped-lawmakers/"
This article states that the Chancellor of the University System, Errol Davis, testified before a joint House-Senate budget committee to address the committee members questions about proposed budget cuts for the University System of Georgia.

The article states that the University System of Georgia would require a 77 percent tuition increase across the system’s 35 schools in order to meet the demand for a $385 million cut in the state’s higher education budget. Even if only $200 to $300 million is absorbed in the form of tuition increases, this would be an increase of around 50 percent for every University System of Georgia student.

In response to these proposed cuts, the Kennesaw State University Student Government Association has passed a resolution with recommendations to the Georgia Legislature. This resolution can be found at www.ksusga.com/resolution.pdf. Please take my SGA’s recommendations into consideration when passing the state budget for Fiscal Year 2011.

Resolution on Tuition Increase

http://www.ksusga.com/resolution.pdf