The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate at its meeting last night passed a resolution (25-1-0) calling for a comprehensive plan to lower the cost of attending Tufts University.
The resolution will ask the university administration to create a commission tasked with lowering the cost of attending Tufts and will request that the administration, University President Anthony Monaco, and the Trustees perform a reevaluation of all tuition and fees imposed on Tufts students.
The resolution will call upon the administration to create a five-year plan to "contain, cap and cut the cost of attending Tufts University."
The resolution was submitted by TCU Treasurer Christie Maciejewski, a sophomore, TCU Associate Treasurer ArdArdalan, a junior, and TCU Assistant Treasurer Matt Roy, a freshman.
Senior Senator Ben Richards voted against the resolution because he does not believe the resolution is the right way to address the cost of attending Tufts.
"The wording was intentionally vague, and I feel that the best way for the university to look at lowering costs would require the involvement of a third party that has experience in this field," he said. "I feel that while this resolution was certainly good-natured and has an admirable goal, it doesn't achieve a whole lot."
The Senate at its meeting also appropriated $996.94 of buffer fund money to the Global Health Network for costs associated with advertising, supplies, food, facilities and police.
