[Grad_history_students] how do you get to campus?

[Sylvester, Roshanna]

Dear students,

The university is in the process of negotiating a new contract with the
CTA for U-Passes, discounted fixed-rate passes that allow full-time
students unlimited ridership on CTA Trains and Buses. 

http://is.depaul.edu/security/cards_passes/cta_upass.asp 


LAS graduate students have not previously been included in the U-Pass
contract. If they are included this time, it would mean that *all* grad
students in LAS would be charged a fee for the pass whether they used it
or not. http://is.depaul.edu/security/cards_passes/fees.asp


So, my questions to you are:

1) How frequently in an average week do you ride CTA buses and/or
trains?
2) Are you a full-time student (8 units/quarter)?
3) Knowing that all LAS grad students would be charged an additional fee
(currently $57.50/quarter) for a U-Pass, do you think the university
should negotiate a deal with the CTA that would provide U-Passes to LAS
graduate students?

Please email me your response by the end of the week, by Friday, March
9th).

Thanks,  

Roshanna P. Sylvester, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and 
 Graduate Program Director
DePaul University
2320 N. Kenmore Ave.
Chicago, IL  60614-3250
773-325-7825 (phone)
773-325-4764 (fax)
rsylvest at depaul.edu

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