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edalven · Joined: 07 May 2010 Posts: 37

Please read (actively, from the text book):

I believe that Rachel and Martha encouraged us to post our thoughts and ideas for CSW's New Deal. I would suggest that we post a problem, and try to come up with a solution. This is optional, but let's try to get a nice discussion going.

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edalven · Joined: 07 May 2010 Posts: 37

Some definite problems for CSW in the near future are:

The endowment took a huge hit during the recession. I heard that the school lost something like 38% of the money that was invested. This, among other things is why the school is hard-pressed for funds at this time. We're still paying off loans for building the Garthwaite Center, I believe.

Development of new buildings becomes more of an issue each year. I'm sure you know about the Children's Garden, and the school is trying as hard as it can to salvage as much of the program as possible, and maybe restarting it in a few years, in a cost efficient space.

Athletics have never been a strong suit of CSW, until now. We've won three titles in two years, which is pretty cool. (It is my personal opinion that the class of 2011 has a lot to do with this.) But I feel that if we don't keep up our athletic programs, and encourage more people to participate, we will lose a key aspect of school spirit and group identity.

Due to a number of factors, including the endowment, the school doesn't have enough money to support salary raises, and as a result many of our beloved faculty members are leaving. (Mo, Martha, Fred, etc.) This saddens me, and it is my firm belief that we should do everything in our power to keep these great teachers.

In an attempt to get funding for upkeep, salaries, trips, food, etcetera, the school has raised the student tuitions to something like $34K for day students and $44K for boarders. This puts pressure on families, and scant financial aid may prevent deserving students from attending this wonderful place. These prices may rise again next year, along with costs of things like breakfast and dinner for day students, which used to be free. (Ah, those were the days...)

I have a few ideas for increasing school profits that should benefit everyone. The first was mentioned to me by Marci, who suggested that we offer courses to non-students either at night, or on weekends, or during the summer. This can probably done in a way so the income from class fees outweighs the costs of running classes. I think we need to bolster our summer camp programs, and diversify our endowment investment portfolio. Many things on campus are funded by grants from alumni, and we need to honor them and keep getting funds. The school had a fundraising campaign that ended last year, perhaps it is time for a new one. None of these ideas can be accomplished easily, and I cannot promise that they will work, but it is necessary to at least consider our options if we want to continue as a community.

BChangy · Joined: 07 May 2010 Posts: 33

LovingThe idea of summer classes sounds like a great way to raise money for the school. The only thing is that you need teachers to teach these classes that go once again to the circle of employment salaries.

Also th tuition rises every year for numerous reasons such as the one you listed and the that the value of the dollar changed.

I thinK a way to fix this is to take the approch that the
AAA did in aggriculture butbin our student population. If we limit the amount of students who attend CSW then we would have to worry less about food, living space, and amount of employees to supervise the students. This could be a benifit and a back lash in it's own: having less students means having to provide for less people. Having an excessinve ammount of students means that more tuition is being paid and facilities are being used to their fullest exctent. ( I believe this is the current approch).

What we could do is have school spirit days/ field day( a csw homecomming) were students would have to pay to participate in games. Have grads compete against one another. And sell food at these events to make even more money.
Another idea is taking into action what the employees at csw do currently: donate somehing to show their support for the school. I see all students being talented at csw. Why not host an event shocasing our talent in th beginning of the year and selling tickets for ppl to attend

Jaehyouk · Joined: 07 May 2010 Posts: 22

i like Eli's summer idea, i also came up with that idea in the class. Since eli already mention it i wanna suggest student market idea. i believe lots of kid in the school (maybe also adults) wants sell stuff that they don't need. School give students market place and students can sell their items. and of course we donate like 30% (percentage is rangiable) of our profit to the school. I wanna here some opinions about this idea from the others.

mswartz · Joined: 07 May 2010 Posts: 43

I love Briana's idea of showcasing CSW students (and possibly faculties) talents in a showcase. Also selling tickets to be admitted. When I first came to CSW I remember thinking it was pretty weird that nobody charged anything for the events that were being held at CSW. For example, the play. My old school charged $15-$20 for tickets... I think charging money will help bring a lot of money from outside of the school (parents, friends, family) into the school. Not every event has to be a lot of money but at least a little.

Eli you mentioned that you believe the class of 2011 has a lot to do with our athletics getting better....hahahahha. I absolutely agree! Not to say all of the other classes aren't good, but i think the class of 2011 has some very talented athletes. I agree when you want to "encourage more people to participate, we will lose a key aspect of school spirit and group identity." However, i feel that as a whole we have school spirit, but it is often found in our arts and academics rather than our athletics. If there was some way to get more enthusiasm/recognition into our athletics that would be awesome. It would also help enrollment because CSW would appeal to a larger audience. For example, someone who is really into art but is also really into sports, wouldn't hesitate as much as they may do now to come to CSW.

BChangy · Joined: 07 May 2010 Posts: 33

The only problem with charging for events such as fall pro and spring musical is that it's (to my knowledge) never been done before. If you sudenly charge students for shows that occur year round then who big will the Audience be. You have to think of students ability to support their peers. I know I would be a little hesitant with each show. Well Racheal did say that we would have to take risk so maybe that is a risk we are willing o take.

Here is another idea: having a suggested donation for an event at CSW. We could sugest that every Audience member pay about $3...it's only a suggestion. I don't think suggesting that people pay effects the outcome of the crowd. Some people love the production and would want to fund the school with a large amount of money after the show. Who knows?!?

mswartz · Joined: 07 May 2010 Posts: 43

I get what you mean, often in shows the question comes up if you should charge admission or have it free and have suggested donations. Which will make more money?

I understand what you mean that people would be hesitant to go to shows but i think for the bigger shows (fall pro, musical,dance concert etc.) people would want to go anyways so they wouldn't mind as much. Their awesome productions but they aren't cheap and I think people understand that. I think it should be $8 for admission or around that price range. This would cover some of the costs of producing the show and would save the school money. I also think it would just be a risk CSW would have to take.

BChangy · Joined: 07 May 2010 Posts: 33

He funnY thing is that I think that would hit another issue that is occuring at CSW: authority.

Adults have probably thought of this for a while but it would just start a big conflict over student power. I think a lot of kids should just say "I have to pay well then it's probably unlikely I'll go".

I mean we all know Csw let's look back on the Childrens Garden. Many students felt as though the school was taking away a presiois gift (attending dance concert and such shows for free is definetly a gift). There was a clash of what the administration had to do/ decided to do and what students wanted to do. There will always be this clash of power. Many students see CSW as a school to make a change/ difference in their school when really it's just a place to be heard not so much considered. My question is how do we go about changing that?

edalven · Joined: 07 May 2010 Posts: 37

Briana and I worked together in class and came up with some neat ideas.

I had difficulty coming up with crafty acronyms. But some of these ideas could work, potentially. Committee Researching Artistic Potential? (CRAP). Nah, that's not appropriate. Artistic Research Committee? (ARC). Better... Foreign Exchange Initiative. (FEI). Endowment Management Committee (EMC). Advertising Management Association (AMA).

Maddy.King · Joined: 07 May 2010 Posts: 23

Brianna- i really lliked the point you made about saying how summer classes is a good idea (which it is!!) but then saying how teachers would have to be paid. I thought it was a really good point

I think some problems csw will encounter are:
Financial aid, keeping all the buildings up to date, debt, teacher salary, alumni donations, etc.

An idea Evan and I came up with was that, the school could relax their enrollment policies a bit (i understand this is risking the reputation a bit). Meaning accepting a few more students to each grade. This would bring in more tuition, which would help pay for repairs and debts and such

Maddy.King · Joined: 07 May 2010 Posts: 23

The idea Evan and I had has a nifty name....
Relaxation
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Enrollment
Policies
Association
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Council

REPASAC!!!

edalven · Joined: 07 May 2010 Posts: 37

BChangy · Joined: 07 May 2010 Posts: 33

I'm sorry but I'm goingtohave to disagree with the idea of over enrollment. Evan brought up a good point: it would increase class sizes. I know that the reason I and many other students came to CSW was because of the class sizes. I would hate to go back to the days were there were 26 kids in my class. So I think that idea should be outta the question

Maddy.King · Joined: 07 May 2010 Posts: 23

i didnt mean bring in 20 extra kids
i was thinking more like 8 more kids, more kids per grade
the tuition is around 30,000?
thatd bring in 240,000 extra billzzz

Hey_look_its_EVAN · Joined: 07 May 2010 Posts: 20

Yeah, another thing me and maddy came up with was selling ad space around campus. that is if the financial situation gets dier. it would alow us the quilcky gain liquid money to keep intrest stable.

striking ad deals departmend

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