Students at SCSU pay $30.54 per credit for student fees up to 12 credits maximum.
That means any SCSU student taking 12 credits pays $366.48 towards student fees per semester.
That amount is spread out into 10 sub-categories that include fees involving athletics, health services, student union, a technology fee and other areas.
The SCSU Fee Allocation Committee (FAC) which consists of seven members who are SCSU students and two additional advisors decide on the distribution of those fees throughout the school year.
“Ultimately the decisions are decided by students in regards to where the student fees go,” said Rochelle Krantz, revenue fund accountant for SCSU and advisor to the FAC.
Krantz said that if the fees go up than students have to pay more to adjust.
Krantz gives advice to the students for assistance in preparing their yearly budget request for SCSU President Earl H. Potter III.
The FAC are elected by students and manage nine areas including Lindgren Childcare Center, Atwood (Student Union), Health Services, Women’s Center, University Program Board, Center for Student Organizations and Leadership Development, Athletics, Campus Rec. and Multicultural Student Services.
There is also a Senate Finance Committee that branches off of the FAC that manages all the student organizations.
The students in FAC meet seven to eight months out of the year and tour all the areas concerned and assess each areas budget concerns.
Members from each of the areas and organizations get a chance to represent their organization or group and present a budget report to the FAC.
The FAC then compiles all of those requests and presents them to the president for further review.
Krantz said the FAC’s goal overall, “is to keep student fees as low as possible and still give students what they want.”
More information on student fees can be found at http://bulletin.stcloudstate.edu/gb/financial/tuition.asp.
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