The mandatory meal plan for commuter students at Kennesaw State University will be eliminated by the end of fiscal year 2018.
This is according to a letter sent by KSU interim President Houston Davis to the University System of Georgia dated July 8. Davis explains that the details of the elimination of the commuter meal plan will be communicated to Chancellor Hank Huckaby by August 31.
The letter was sent in response to several audits conducted by the USG earlier this year into KSU’s dining services, which found a $5.2 million deficit. Six of the seven Kennesaw campus dining facilities operated at a loss in 2015.
According to Davis in the letter, eliminating the commuter meal plans is just one part of the solution.
Dining services will be reorganized to reduce costs, and the current contract with the vendor will be renegotiated “with the intent to eliminate subsidies to the culinary education programs and the farming operations,” according to the letter.
Additionally, an Ethics and Compliance Triage Committee has been formed to “discuss and appropriately act upon all current and potential wrongdoing.”
Since the original audit reports were released June 6, leadership has shifted at KSU. Randall Shelton, the subject of one of the investigations, resigned soon after, and Davis fired four other top administrators.
Davis later told The Sentinel he “felt like a change would be in the best interest.”
Davis took over as president of KSU July 1, only weeks after Daniel Papp announced his retirement. He noted in his letter that KSU will work with the USG office throughout the implementation of these changes.
They’re likely stopping it conveniently after it’s been paid off…
the plan is way too expensive and should never have been required! they need to cut prices, asap!