Fee for a specific major

[flirt5721]

The thing that is happening is that for the first time they want to put these fees. I agree that the fee would do good for students and for the labs but one of the draw backs is that included in the fee the College of Engineering want to hire tow techs. From my understanding, since I am at a Land Grant University, is that student fees should not be used to pay for staff members. The College also does not know how they are going to control the money or even how they are going to split it. I'm on the Engineers Council and the Dean came to talk to us to see how we felt. From what I understood that they want to do is set up a separte council that will be made up of students from engineering and faculty to deciede where the money is needed most.

There are classes in which you have to pay a separte lab fee. But a fee for every student. Even if they have a class that do not have a lab.

[33girl]

That definitely sounds shady.

[LPIDelta]

I took a class about finances in higher ed last semester. Since state schools often have limits on the amount they can charge for tuition, fees are often charged to help provide for things like technology or student programs (pretty much anything not directly related to regular classes). Many universities have student center fees that are controlled by a student/staff council to pay for needs in the center each year. I am not sure what the rules are re: paying staff--but I think I have read where student fees were used to pay for staff before. That said, its possible the fees could be used to support programs and the university would then pay for the staff from other funds.

[jubilance1922]

At my undergrad (Univ. of Minnesota) all students in the Institute of Technology (our engineering/physical science college) must pay a technology fee. This includes fees for all lab courses, and also supports our computer labs. We have separate computer labs with UNIX stations that only students in our college could use.

I thought all schools worth their weight in the sciences already had these fees.

[AlphaFrog]

Anyone at my undergrad who took any sort of music class had a $10 fee for school instrument maintenance/new music purchase, etc..

[KSUViolet06]

I took some upper divisiion classes in the education department & they had extra technology fees of like $30 per course.

My grad program is under the same department and some of my classes have the same fees (called "special course fees" by the university).

[sunnyhibiscus]

At my school, if you take an upper division business course, you have to pay $30 per business course you take.