Athletics Budget Important
This informative data shows the change in budget allocations for athletics in the 2009-2010 year where the budget decreased. Looking at that in comparison to the years before it that had significant increases in the budget each year, this graph begs the question, what's going to happen in the future? Will the budget continue to decrease? Student athletics are very important for the Mary Washington community and the budget must keep increasing or at least stop decreasing so that student athletes can continue to compete at a competitive level.
Tuition Spikes, Anger Strikes
The economy is in turmoil and tuition costs are on the rise, in England this was a violent combination. In response to a tripling of tuition to universities, students staged violent protests in London this fall. This article raises the question as to what the consequences of our own tuition increase at Mary Washington will be, which I attempted to interpret into a simple and blunt infographic.
Sources:
tuition information from http://collegesearch.collegeboard.com/search/...
UMW Graduation Rates
UMW ranks pretty highly among universities in the same class in terms of graduation rates.
Budget Cut To UMW Athletic Teams
This article talks about the negative impacts of the budget cut to the athletic teams. This creates various changes in the for the sports teams for instance transportation is difficult and maintenance of athletic equipment and fields has suffered. The chart I created shows that the intercollegiate sports in the past received an increase to their budgets, however this year the budget was dramatically cut.
Poverty in Honduras
I did a pretty basic pie chart, and then Gimp crashed. So this is what I did in the last five minutes of class. My apologies for some weird features.
Cost vs Percent of Population
Difference in Tuition Costs & Percent of Population Attending College in the USA and Europe (France). I got the cost of tuition in the USA from http://www.collegeboard.com/student/pay/add-it-up/4494.html.
UMW's Recent Budget Increases and Cuts
I followed the trends that were described in all of the articles and charted them.