Student fees on the rise next year
Student activity fees to increase by over seven per cent
Fanshawe students next year will absorb an increase in the amount of money they pay the Student Union as part of the student activity fee.
The increase of 7.3 per cent, which amounts to $4.82 per semester, will come into effect for the 2008/2009 school year this coming September, and represents the first time since the construction of the student union building, that the fee has gone up by such a sizeable amount.
“The student activity goes towards having a student union in the first place,” said Travis Mazereeuw, the Student Union president. “Every policy and every fee goes through us where we make sure that the students get the best of everything that's offered from the college. But also it goes towards entertainment, pubs, the ability to have a bar on campus, having new buildings, the Oasis, study rooms, Fringe hair, a convenience store - all these things fall into that as well.”
The fee, Mazereeuw explained, is only going up this year in response to the Consumer Price Index, which affects operational and material costs across the country. The CPI is gauged by Statistics Canada through the addition of the cost of a set basket of consumer goods on a monthly basis. The CPI is then used to determine the amount of inflation that has occurred across the country during that time span.
“Most of the time the only reason a student activity fee will be increased is because of the CPI,” he continued. “So pretty much when that goes up, everything goes up as well.”
Mazereeuw also stressed that the FSU is a non-profit organization and the money the increased fee garners is not going towards the union, but right back to the students themselves.
“The student activity fee is basically covering your opportunity to be a student and doing things other than homework at school. So everything other than learning and going home at Fanshawe is covered by that.”
Fanshawe students have the opportunity to protest the fee and can sign a petition in the Student Union office as well as at the Biz Booth before 4 p.m. on January 28, 2008. If 10 per cent of the full-time student population signs the petition, the fee will then go to a referendum where a majority vote opposed to the fee will be required to have it canceled.
Please take notice that the Student Activity Fee for 2008-2009 will be increased from $65.56 to a maximum of $70.38 per student, per semester, which represents a maximum increase of 7.3 per cent.
The motion, under Article 1.9.2 is: ‘…to accept the proposed Student Activity Fee as presented for a fee increase of
(a) the average annual Ontario Price Index for 2007 subject to a maximum increase of 5 per cent, and
(b) by $1.55 per semester…'
(the overall increase will be a maximum of $4.82 per semester).
Fanshawe students next year will absorb an increase in the amount of money they pay the Student Union as part of the student activity fee.
The increase of 7.3 per cent, which amounts to $4.82 per semester, will come into effect for the 2008/2009 school year this coming September, and represents the first time since the construction of the student union building, that the fee has gone up by such a sizeable amount.
“The student activity goes towards having a student union in the first place,” said Travis Mazereeuw, the Student Union president. “Every policy and every fee goes through us where we make sure that the students get the best of everything that's offered from the college. But also it goes towards entertainment, pubs, the ability to have a bar on campus, having new buildings, the Oasis, study rooms, Fringe hair, a convenience store - all these things fall into that as well.”
The fee, Mazereeuw explained, is only going up this year in response to the Consumer Price Index, which affects operational and material costs across the country. The CPI is gauged by Statistics Canada through the addition of the cost of a set basket of consumer goods on a monthly basis. The CPI is then used to determine the amount of inflation that has occurred across the country during that time span.
“Most of the time the only reason a student activity fee will be increased is because of the CPI,” he continued. “So pretty much when that goes up, everything goes up as well.”
Mazereeuw also stressed that the FSU is a non-profit organization and the money the increased fee garners is not going towards the union, but right back to the students themselves.
“The student activity fee is basically covering your opportunity to be a student and doing things other than homework at school. So everything other than learning and going home at Fanshawe is covered by that.”
Fanshawe students have the opportunity to protest the fee and can sign a petition in the Student Union office as well as at the Biz Booth before 4 p.m. on January 28, 2008. If 10 per cent of the full-time student population signs the petition, the fee will then go to a referendum where a majority vote opposed to the fee will be required to have it canceled.
Please take notice that the Student Activity Fee for 2008-2009 will be increased from $65.56 to a maximum of $70.38 per student, per semester, which represents a maximum increase of 7.3 per cent.
The motion, under Article 1.9.2 is: ‘…to accept the proposed Student Activity Fee as presented for a fee increase of
(a) the average annual Ontario Price Index for 2007 subject to a maximum increase of 5 per cent, and
(b) by $1.55 per semester…'
(the overall increase will be a maximum of $4.82 per semester).
