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Professors need more funding

Imagine, if you will, being at school all day, sitting in a classroom and dealing with professors.

Then imagine going home and spending your spare time studying.

Sound like something you do (or should be doing)?

We’re not talking about students. We’re talking about professors.

Professors take on additional work to further their own education and to help ensure students have a better learning environment.

But now there’s a slight problem — there may not be funding for professors to continue this research.

Last week, a memo from the Faculty Senate stated that almost $83,000 would be cut from the Research and Creative Activities Fund. This means professors may get money to start their research, but then they may need to find outside funds to continue it.

Because they already don’t have enough to do in between teaching, grading and researching, let’s send them out to find their own funding too.

In response to the cuts, about 60 faculty members from the College of Fine Arts and Add Ran College of Humanities and Social Sciences e-mailed a petition complaining to the administration.

It’s something we rarely hear about on this campus — people actually banding together, picking a stance and doing something about it.

And it’s our professors doing it.

It’s about time we learned from them. They’re research greatly affects students and it’s time we told the administration how much research money is needed.