New building for Honors College

notrichenough
Mon, 29 Nov 2010 16:45:01 +0000

Certainly sounds like a very statement though I don’t completely disagree with it. The police station is to help ensure everybody’s safety and it benefits honors students as much as it benefits everybody else. And the majority of regular students do not engage in criminal activity either.

OK, That was a joke, that’s why I put a smiley next to it.



With just nine extra classrooms (at a huge cost), I don’t know how good a job it does.

Most of the cost of the building is new dorm space for 1500 students.



But it would also alienate other students who are paying tuition money towards a facility that is not open to them.

I doubt students care, they are focused on their own business. Their tuition goes to many things which don’t directly benefit them - for example, sports. And anyway, ComCol students now pay a $300/year extra fee to support the ComCol programs.



Also, it reduces social and academic interaction between honors and non-honors students, which does harm to both groups.

This makes no sense to me at all, people interact with who they want to.



Being admitted to Commonwealth College did not play a major role in my college choice. A scholarship, on the other hand, would have probably made me decide to attend UMass and would cost less money to fund as well. Improving academics and renovating buildings that everybody uses would be in my opinion a superior way to spend the money.

Maybe if there were dedicated ComCol facilities or some other more tangible benefits to being in ComCol, you’d have made a different decision.

UConn spent $100 million on a football stadium that’s not even on campus. Would you have decided to attend UMass if they had a better football team and a fancy stadium?