Among poll respondents, 22% reported they strongly disapprove of the way the Undergraduate Finance Board is handling its job, a significantly higher percentage than the 3.9% for the Undergraduate Council of Students and 3.2% for the Class Coordinating Board.
UFB also had the lowest overall approval ratings of the three groups, with 8.8% of respondents reporting they somewhat approve and 2.5% reporting they strongly approve of the group, compared to 23.4% and 4.1% for UCS and 28.1% and 9.3% for CCB, respectively.
After spending the vast majority of its $1.2 million surplus last year, UFB faced a $1.5 million gap between the funding requested by student groups and the amount it could distribute. Despite an increase in the student activity fee from $286 to $300, clubs have faced lowered budgets, and CCB announced that Spring Weekend 2024 will be a one-day festival.
40.2% of respondents strongly or somewhat approve of the way Joe Biden is handling his job as president of the United States. 20.5% of respondents neither approved nor disapproved, 17.6% somewhat disapproved, 12.7% had no opinion, 5.1% strongly disapproved and 4% strongly approved. In spring 2023, 40.6% of respondents indicated that they did not vote in the 2022 U.S. midterm elections, and 14.2% of respondents were not eligible to vote.
Just over 28% of respondents reported they neither approve nor disapprove and 20.5% of respondents had no opinion on how President Christina Paxson P’19 P’MD’20 is handling her role at the University.
Paxson celebrated her 10th anniversary as University president in 2022 and was elected to the American Council on Education board of directors in spring 2023. The Corporation extended her contract to June 30, 2026 in 2021, though the decision was not announced until February 2023.