x-sender: governor.haley@sc.lmhostediq.com x-receiver: governor.haley@sc.lmhostediq.com Received: from mail pickup service by IQ12 with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Wed, 11 Feb 2015 01:05:14 -0500 thread-index: AdBFwLN2UGmzcgTpQCKIj2fxzuSlrA== Thread-Topic: SCSU From: To: Subject: SCSU Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 01:05:14 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft CDO for Windows 2000 Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message Importance: normal Priority: normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.1.7601.17609 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 11 Feb 2015 06:05:14.0254 (UTC) FILETIME=[B3930AE0:01D045C0] CUSTOM Mr Hardeep Judge 936 Summer Creek Drive Orangeburg SC 29118 Hjudge@scsu.edu 8036624564 LETT SCSU I am totally disappointed in the developments today concerning SCSU. Even if the bill is killed it does irreversible damage in recruiting and retaining students. Our lifeline is our current and future students. Closing the school for two years is not the solution. How do you explain losing 1000 direct jobs and thousands of indirect jobs? How can you propose offering scholarships to these students when that money should be invested in our school in the first place. Just the local damage is incomprehensible. We would immediately loose our SACS accreditation and opening the school two years later you would still have to reapply for the accreditation which can take 2 to 3 years. With 97 percent of our students receiving financial aid that aid would be gone until the accreditation is restored. So the two years has turned into 5 years. The State of SC would loose more in tax revenue than it would loose by actually helping the school. The school has never been supported like other institutions. I have worked at SCSU with all my heart for the last 14 years. I have seen more constructive change the last few years than at any time before. How can anyone think that closing the school for two years and opening it back up works. Orangeburg our district will loose so much intellectual property by SCSU's faculty and staff moving to other schools. What then does Orangeburg do? When we were having the financial crisis in 2008 the government did not shut down the automobile companies for two years. They supported them and the banks and allowed them to grow out of it. We are already hurting for industry in Orangeburg county. Do you think it will be easier to recruit the Boeing's of the world when you can't even support higher education? I am just the tennis coach at State but this school means more than just tennis to me. We have won 20 Conference Championship as well as represented the State of South Carolina 20 times in the NCAA Division 1 Championships. We have raised more than 400,000.00 dollars for the tennis program within the last 5 years. We have had an average GPA of 3.7. We have graduated scholars who didn't have any other possible opportunities. Just this year we enrolled a student who had lived in foster care and shelters most of his life. The first time he had his own bed was when he moved into his dorm room. Who else in this State helped this kid? I have seen so many success stories. Accountability starts at the top. The Governor and the Legislators appointed and elected the Board of Directors. I guarantee 90 percent of the selected Board members would never been allowed to sit on any other University board. The Legislators are also the ones that cut the schools State funding. All the members of the subcommittee that voted to shut the school for 2 years never once stepped foot on campus. I invite you all to campus so you actually see what you are doing. Why appoint a Blue Ribbon Panel ? Why give SC State 6 million dollars then also hire a consulting firm? Why not even look at their recommendations? The most upsetting part is that we are called a State supported institution. Maybe you should come on campus and actually look at a few of our buildings and see for yourself if we are really State supported. Where is the deferred maintenance? You have asked this institution to cut cut cut. We have done it to a point where our entire budget is less than the athletics budgets alone at Clemson and USC. How is that right? We are a lot closer to fixing the schools problems. We are a lot more transparent. We need to fight together and not against each other. Sincerely Hardeep Judge 803 6624564 Hjudge@scsu.edu