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...mostly to publicity efforts, easier common grants applications, and active undergraduate organizations, however, the UC grants fund is now broke. An end-of-the-year grants package cut is inevitable if the UC is going to produce the expected four more grants packages, which have averaged about $15,000 over the course of this school year...
...UC gives out grants based on objective criteria in a non-arbitrary process, trying hard not to make value judgments about the content of the event itself. The UC instead considers how reasonable the event’s costs are, how integral to the expenses are to the event’s success, and the magnitude of undergraduate benefit the event will produce...
This year, about $285,000, or 71 percent of the grants fund, was earmarked for grants covering expenses specific to student groups—a 45 percent increase from last year. Needless to say, student organizations entered this school year with the impression that the UC was in a position to support them financially, and with good reason...
Some critics of this procedure argue that handing out such a large portion of funds early in the year is fiscally irresponsible, and in many ways has been interpreted as being indicative of mismanagement of the UC’s funds by UC leadership. These critics argue that the UC should simply budget at the beginning of the year so as to spread out the grants fund evenly across each week that it makes a grants package. Simple math, these critics say—dividing the UC’s total student group budget by the number of grants packages...
...being inherently better than one cut at the end is fallacious; there is nothing “wrong” with an end-of-the-year cut that is not also “wrong” with smaller cuts made gradually throughout the school year. Both force the UC to make rather arbitrary cuts to student group events which it would otherwise like to fund...