Tania Nyman, English instructor and administrator of the “Save LSU” Facebook campaign, spoke to the Faculty Senate about the LA GRAD Act on Tuesday.Gov. Bobby Jindal proposed the act in February, which would allow state colleges and universities to raise tuition if they meet specific academic standards.”Increasing tuition is not necessarily good for LSU, and it is certainly bad for students,” Nyman said.Nyman said having a comparatively low tuition isn’t necessarily an indication of cheap education because the average income of Louisiana families is still not enough to afford a higher university tuition.”Education is a basic social good and should be affordable,” Nyman said.Nyman said public education isn’t fulfilling its mission if education is not accessible to the public.She said tuition increases won’t offset the loss of state funds incurred as a result of budget cuts.Rebecca Owens, faculty senator from the Curriculum and Instruction Department of the College of Education, said the market will make other state universities affordable if those universities have the autonomy to set tuition themselves.”Students will choose to come here if they have the ability to come here,” said Joseph Legoria, faculty senator from the Department of Accounting in the E.J. Ourso College of Business.The Faculty Senate also discussed a proposed amendment about a faculty member’s right to assign grades.The amendment was partially related to the removal of biology professor and researcher Dominique Homberger from Biology 1001, according to Charles Delzell, faculty senator from the Mathematics Department.The amendment would prohibit University administration from suspending any instructor from teaching any course or otherwise punishing or disciplining any instructor on the basis of the grades the instructor administers.—-Contact Jacob Most at [email protected].