Tuition and Fee Proposed Changes

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Tuition and Fee Proposed Changes
Academic Years 2011 and 2012
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Overview of Proposed Fee Changes

• Mandatory Fees
• Athletic Fee rate increase
• Medical Services Fee rate increase
• Energy Fee rate decrease
• Automated Services Fee Update fee justification
• Library Resource Fee - Update fee justification

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Overview of Proposed Changes

• Course Incidental Fees
• Laboratory Fee - Change to a course fee
• COS Technology and Instructional Support Fee
  Update fee justification
• Distance Learning Fee - Update fee justification
• Library Fines - More specificity in types of
  fines
• Meal Plan Refund Processing Fee -New fee
• Parking Permit Refund Processing Fee - New fee
• Group Tour Refund Processing Fee (ITC) - New fee

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Changes to Automated Services Fee
Change in justification

• Original justification
• To defray costs associated with provision of
  specialized automated services, a wireless
  network, 24-hour computer access, and distance
  learning facilities and support.
• Revised justification
• To defray costs associated with managing,
  maintaining, upgrading, and general operations of
  the university's technology infrastructure,
  electronic resources, and online services.

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Changes to Library Resource Fee
Change in justification

• Original justification
• To defray costs associated with providing
  increased direct and indirect services and
  supplies, to include on-line access to full text
  data-bases, academic indexes, print journals and
  monographs. Defray costs for providing 24/5
  library hours to respond to expressed student
  demand. To provide for growth in library
  staffing and associated costs.
• Revised justification
• To provide necessary goods and services to cover
  the operational costs
• associated with providing comprehensive library
  services.   The fee revenue
• covers salary, benefits and related personnel
  costs as well as necessary
• library materials, periodicals, books, supplies,
  equipment and facility related
• costs as necessary to meet the needs of the
  university and as allowed by the
• amount of fee revenue generated. Unreserved
  fund balances at year end
• may be used to cover library renovations.

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Meal Plan Refund Processing Fee
New Fee

• Justification
• To cover the costs incurred with processing meal
  plan cancellations and refunds.
• Proposed Fee Rate 30

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New Parking Permit Refund Processing Fee
New Fee

• Justification
• To cover the costs associated with processing
  parking permit refunds.
• Fee Rate 10

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Group Tour Refund Processing Fee (ITC)
New Fee

• Justification
• ??????
• Fee Rate ???

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Changes to COS Technology and Instructional
Support Fee
Change in justification

• Original justification
• To defray costs associated with providing
  additional personnel and equipment support for
  instruction, technical support for WEB design and
  maintenance, support for academic reporting and
  distance learning, service contracts, and other
  support necessary to maintain the laboratory
  equipment
• Revised justification
• To defray costs associated with providing
  additional personnel and equipment support for
  instruction, technology support for web design
  and maintenance, web accessible course
  information, support for academic reporting and
  distance learning, service contracts, and other
  support necessary to maintain laboratory
  equipment.

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Changes to Distance Learning Fee
Change in justification

• Original justification
• To defray costs associated with maintenance and
  operation of WebCT hardware, purchase of WebCT
  disaster recovery system, software upgrade to
  WebCT version 6.0, Banner/WebCT integration,
  software and hardware upgrade for WebCT Vista,
  developing on-line courses, and archiving
  courses.
• Revised justification
• To defray costs associated with managing,
  maintaining, upgrading, and general operations of
  the university's Learning Management System (LMS)
  and on-line course development activities.

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Changes to Library Fines
Fines will be more specific and transparent

• See handout?

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Changes to Laboratory Fees

• Converting all lab fees to incidental course fees
• Revenue neutral, but will provide flexibility