Each of those students is going to spend a lot more than $2,000 per year in Prince George.

Perhaps the City should look at funding a scholarship program instead of buying things like replay scoreclocks, or massive funding of short-time events like the Western Canada Summer Games.

Or perhaps funding one student through this program to the tune of $8,000 would be much more beneficial to the economy than flying to China.

It seems that the city, in its budget deliberations, don't consider opportunity costs or alternatives. I would like to see more rigor.

Get off your soap box, bohemian.

These scholarships are incentives to attend UNBC and a darned good idea

This is a bit bigger than the city can handle

..........we don`t need to buy the whole store.

I think my post may be confusing.

I think the UNBC scholarships are great, and I think the City should look at topping up UNBC scholarship money rather than taking trips to China. Clearly, the money would be better invested via this method.

Hello Bohemian,

I think we are both on the same page regarding the City.

One growing problem in UNBC has been mismanagment in the administration system. Before the arrival of the new president it almost became a rule that people were no longer promoted/hired based on performance but based on friendship with the chair or deans in UNBC. And the students can judge this lowering of performance. They want good techers and they don't care wether the guy is a friend of dean or chair.

An example of this was the last hiring in Physics program where a UNBC experienced professor Dr V.F. who had taught for 4 years in UNBC and was one of the 2 rising stars in Physics in BC (with grant and book publication) was not hired and instead another candidate who had even no post doctoral experience was hired. I don't go into the details of the corruption (Dr V.F.'s grievance is available in UNBC) but the VP was informed about this discrimination in hiring in the CSAM college by UNBC professor(s) and later by the candidate, but the discrimination was covered up and the complain of Dr V.F. got no where. Dr V.F. is now teaching in another province but the UNBC students are deprieved from a better professor and a better teacher. This is not the case in other universities in BC and they try to hire the best.

And UNBC loses in competition to those universities because of this mismangment which adds to the disadvantage of UNBC's remote location. The new president needs to lay off some of those corrupt administrators first before restructuring or letting good staff to be layed off by the recomendation of those corrupt administrators.

UNBC president can look at examples of discrimination in hiring and promotion in UNBC and reprimend those involved in discrmination and covering up before doing any costly restructuring.