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** The new president and chancellor Ranu Khator was up there in front of the special invited guests just prior to introducing the four new regents **

It's RENU Khator.

http://www.uh.edu/about/offices/president/profile

OK, so how will you pay not only for the improvements that will be required to move up, but even to maintain the level of service provided by the university. Austin's cutting support annually (it created aformula funding plan decades ago and never fully funded it), staff from professors to waiters need cost-of-living increases and most often deeserve raises,the cost of supplies steadily increase.

Your solution is what, Maragaret? Turn off the a/c? Don't repair the computers? Stop buying books for the library until all the ideas have been squeezed out of the old books?

OK, so how will you pay not only for the improvements that will be required to move up, but even to maintain the level of service provided by the university? Austin's cutting support annually (it created a formula funding plan decades ago and never fully funded it), staff from professors to waiters need cost-of-living increases and most often deserve raises,the cost of supplies steadily increase.

Your solution is what, Maragaret? Turn off the a/c? Don't repair the computers? Stop buying books for the library until all the ideas have been squeezed out of the old books?

"It's RENU Khator."

Fixed. Many thanks, Kevin.

Let's remember that Texas Tech froze their tuition and that one UH regent, Lynden Rose, had the guts to vote against raising tuition and he specifically mentioned Texas Tech not raising theirs.

It's easy to vote to keep raising the tuition and push low income student out, it's more difficult to effectively lobby the state legislators and raise money from alumni and deep pocket locals. There is plenty of fat in the UH budget, $600,000 plus for Renu Khator's compensation package, $22,000 for a holiday jazz brunch that interim President Rudley threw in Dec. a million and half dollars for a jogging / bike trail, etc.

Instead of cutting fat for parties and luxuries, UH cuts corners by paying its janitors and food service workers poverty wages. You won't see administrators taking a pay cut or freezing their pay, no make the students pay more!

Who's going to keep paying more for a 4th tier school?

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/metro/5783999.html