A trend/refrain of 'UC Students imposing fees on current, future UC students' keeps coming up -- yet, the "UC Alumni Regents" never speak about it at UC Regent meetings...
One of the most disturbing things about the last UC Regents meeting (a couple weeks ago) was the complete silence of the "Alumni UC Regents", who hold ex officio status. They are appointed and sit at the Regents table during UC Regent meetings.
The Alumni UC Regents did not address the Kashimiri fee, or the casual naming of a fee to be paid by current students after specific UC alumni-- and whether or not that was proper to do when the UC Regents held discussion on the issue. Do the UC Alumni Regents have anything to say about the framing of fees as current students imposing fees on future students? Or, are they just seat warmers for UC Regent meetings?
Are these really 'administration imposed' or 'student imposed' fees?
Here is something that is not exactly
the "Kashmiri fee" or "Luquetta fee" but something that maybe should be reviewed by current students, parents, admin- it is where the discussion of the "free" HIV testing fee and other fees are discussed-in a Pro Publica Article titled:
Course Load: The Growing Burden of College Fees
it also includes a section on CSU:
Within the 23-campus California State University system, six schools have adopted some form of what's called a "student success fee" since the beginning of 2011. The annual fees, which different campuses have been using to cover a broad array of things from technology to mentoring programs to athletics, range from as little as $162 to as much as $430 a year depending on the school.
At UC-- did students vote to charge themselves these fees? Have the fees been reviewed to check if students might be double billing themselves (is HIV testing offered for "free" by the county or ??..) --or, did previous students vote to charge future students these fees? there is this exchange to note from the comments section:
Daniel Press
March 29, 4:57 p.m.
Ms. Wang, I would think that, if you are opening your article discussing student fees at UC Santa Cruz, you might look into what those fees consisted of, how they got onto student bills in the first place and how much they amount to. As with some of your other examples, you might even have considered speaking with and quoting someone at UC Santa Cruz.
Had you done so, you might have learned that students voted for many of these fees. You might have learned that our students voted to charge themselves extra fees so that our libraries could stay open longer, a charge that will disappear now that the state budget has stabilized somewhat. You might have learned that students voted for a fee dedicated to reducing the campus’s carbon footprint. In effect, our students have used these fees to demonstrate leadership on issues they care very much about. (You would also have learned that a third of the fees amount to less than $10 per year per student).
As a faculty member at UC Santa Cruz and the father of a college student, I know as well as anyone how expensive college has become. But this kind of reporting merely skims the surface and omits too much context to be of much use.
Daniel Press, Professor of Environmental Studies and Executive Director, Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, UC Santa Cruz
Marian Wang
March 29, 5:16 p.m.
Hi Daniel,
Thanks for your comment. I did in fact contact someone at Santa Cruz and get information on the fees, and you are absolutely correct to note that sometimes students self-impose fees.
This story doesn’t fail to make this point, though it may not be as high in the story as you would like. If readers are interested, here are more details on the fees that UC SC have imposed over the years—many were first enacted decades ago: http://studentservices.ucsc.edu/business/student-fees/fee-descriptions.html
Best,
Marian
Daniel Press
March 29, 7:51 p.m.
Thanks for providing that link, Marian!
Best,
Daniel
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New University just now recapped the March UC Regents meeting
and speaking of New University in CA:
there is this
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UCSF and layoffs after whistleblower report...
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Sea Lions keeping a beat at UCSC.
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"staring off into space thinking"