NEWS Tuesday, February 13, 2018
Fees >> from page 1 “We have a philosophy here at Colorado State that I think we’re really proud of about the student fee areas, and that is that we have always gone to the students and student government for approval and for oversight of how their fees are spent,” Miranda said at the Feb. 5 SFRB meeting. “That’s not the case at all universities.”
STUDENT FEES The student fee is broken down into 19 fee areas as follows: ■ ASCSU, $24.45 ■ Adult Learner and Veteran Services, $7.49 ■ Athletics, $114.92 ■ Alternative Transportation Fee Advisory Board, $26.23 ■ Career Center, $31.22 ■ Campus Recreation, $139.15 ■ Conflict Resolution, $7.34 ■ Health Network, $248.07 ■ Lory Student Center, $182.52 ■ Off Campus Life, $5.54 ■ Ram Events, $9.71 ■ Ram Ride, $6.07 ■ Resources for Disabled Students, $0.48 ■ SLiCE, $18.16 ■ Student Legal Services, $7.30 ■ University Center of the Arts, $14.59 ■ University Facility Fee Advisory Board, $311.25 ■ University Technology Fee Advisory Board, $25.00 ■ The Women and Gender Advocacy Center, $4.25
3.49 percent. Although SFRB has not yet determined the final budget for the 20182019 academic year, Wise anticipates an increase due to rising mandatory costs. “The only trend that we’re seeing (in fee increases) is that mandatory costs increase. The cost of living is increasing, and the cost of salary is increasing, as well as hourly student pay,” Wise said. “With the minimum wage increase that was passed, we’re going to continue to see those mandatory costs continue to increase for the foreseeable future.” This year, Miranda asked SFRB to consider the projected rise in tuition when deliberating on any changes to student fees, as there was previously a gap between tuition increases and fee increases. As the Board continues to determine the specific necessary and proposed changes to student fees this semester, Wise plans on increasing transparency through the student fees website and encourages students to get involved in the process by contacting SFRB members. “Learn about where your money’s going, because if you have the opportunity to learn about where you’re spending money, you should take it,” Wise said. “This is a process that any student on campus can be a part of.” Natalia Sperry can be reached at news@collegian.com.
According to the CSU Institutional Fee Plan and Policy, student fees are defined as being any amount, other than tuition, that is assessed to all individual students as a condition of enrollment in the University. Though it often appears as one total cost of “tuition and fees” on the student’s end, as with the Shopping Sheet on RAMweb, the current student fee total for full time students per semester is $1,183.74. According to Wise, student fee areas are created based on what impacts students the most, such as Alternative Transportation Fee Advisory Board, which reviews the accessibility of Transfort and the bus systems around campus. “Really, it’s where on campus impacts the most students, and that’s what creates a fee area,” Wise said. “We’re getting a say in a lot of things going on, on campus.” This year, the two largest fee areas are in University Facility Fee Advisory Board, whose fees provide both new facilities and improvement to current facilities that directly benefit the students, and the new CSU Health Network, which provides resources to all students, such as 5 free counseling sessions. For full-time on-campus students, fees increased by about $15 for the 2017-2018 school year, a 1.34 percent increase from the 2016-2017 academic year. The previous year, the fee increased by
History of Student Fees from 2010 - 2017 $2,367.48
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SCIENCE
Activist discusses labor, climate By Pat Conrey @Load_of_Crop
Avogadro’s Number invited Michael Leon Guerrero to speak Monday evening about the impact climate change will have on the world’s work industries. According to the United Nations, the world population will reach 9.7 billion by 2050, 25 years after current freshmen at Colorado State University will enter the workforce. Guerrero, the executive director of the Labor Network for Sustainability, addressed the audience about topics including progressive labor movements and climate change policy at the event co-sponsored by CSU’s Environmental Justice Working Group and the Department of Political Science. “The whole issue about jobs and environment as a dichotomy was always a false dichotomy,”Guerrero said. “We felt we should never have to trade off jobs for our health, our safety and the environment.” According to Guerrero, the environmental justice communities have to live with both realities. Guerrero left the environmental justice and community organizing sphere to work with the labor unions. He praised the work of his peers and their analysis of times when labor unions changed their positions on major issues, like civil rights, immigration and healthcare.
“It was the same story,” Guerrero said. “It was a bottom up process within the labor movement that created the change.” During the panel, the North American Free Trade Agreement, which has made its way onto the federal political scene, was used as an example of worker and environmental rights. On Jan. 1, 1989 the United States entered NAFTA. Guerrero worked closely with organizations on NAFTA where labor unions, faith-based groups and environmental groups came together. Between labor groups, organization has not always been easy. Guerrero said he believes the question “What would climate change mean to your industry?” opens the conversation. “Climate change is the real job killer,” Guerrero said. “I found that union people around the country really are thinking about this issue. They just need some guidance.” LNS hosted their first Labor Convergence on Climate in January 2016. At the convergence, the group approved a set of guiding principles. Groups like LNS and EJWG are actively working towards a more sustainable world. “This is one economic transition that we cannot afford to be reactive to,” Guerrero said. “We all have to be all in.” Pat Conrey can be reached at news@collegian.com.
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Although formally student’s roles in SFRB are to give advice to the University President, who in turn advises the final decision making of the Board of Governors, Miranda said that in President Tony Frank’s administration, SFRB has always had a valuable place in the decision making process. “It’s never been the case that in our memory, and certainly not in our administration, that we have taken a fee to the board of governors that (SFRB) has not approved of, or that we’ve vetoed a fee that (SFRB) was supportive of,” Miranda said during the SFRB meeting. “We have a very long history of a cooperative relationship with SFRB and with student government in shepherding these resources.”
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