Administrators preview upcoming fee hearing
Rebecca Hoeffner
Issue date: 1/24/08 Section: Campus Life
On Tuesday at 5 p.m. a few students and Tarleton administration gathered at an informal information session in Room 6 in the Thompson Student Center to discuss fees for the upcoming academic year. The focus was only on fees relating to academics, and the session was meant to be a pre-curser to President McCabe's fee hearing scheduled for Jan. 28 at 5:15 p.m. in Ballroom C of the TSC. As presented in the session, multiple fees that will be discussed on Monday will be increasing in cost.
Fees addressed at the information session included the field experience fee for student teachers in the education program, which is going from $50 to $75. This covers the rising cost of materials that student teachers require.
"This is a fee which hasn't increased since 1995," said Dr. Ann Calahan, head of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction.
The next fee addressed was the fee for off-campus programs, which doesn't affect undergraduate students studying solely on the Stephenville campus. The fee does affect students at the Waco and Fort Worth campuses, and graduate students taking only online courses. This fee is going up from $23 to $28, which "covers the cost of faculty and infrastructure," said Dr. Karen Murray, Assistant Vice President for Curriculum and Assessment. The fee for online graduate students is also going up from $300 to $400 per course.
Dr. George Mollick, the Director of the Center for Instructional Technology & Distributed Education, clarified his position by saying he was the "person you blame when things don't work." Because the departments currently pay for classroom technology out of their individual budgets, Dr. Mollick proposed that the fee be raised from $1 per credit hour to $2 per credit hour. This will cover the cost of putting all of the departments on campus on a centralized budget for classroom technology and will allow problems with that technology to be addressed more quickly.
A fee that would only affect graduate students was proposed by Dr. Linda Jones, Dean of the College of Graduate Studies. Dr. Jones proposed that the graduate tuition differential be raised from $10 to $20, and the graduate application fee be raised from $25 to $30.
"This will be used for graduate assistantships, research and faculty salaries," said Jones. "Graduate courses cost more to teach."
The final fee discussed was a new fee for the upcoming academic advising center. The fee, proposed by Calahan and Dr. Dennis Jones, Dean of General Studies, would result in increase of $2 per credit hour.
Students seeking more information are encouraged to attend the fee hearing on Jan. 28 at 5:15 p.m. in Ballroom C of the TSC or contact Dr. Brad Chilton.
Fees addressed at the information session included the field experience fee for student teachers in the education program, which is going from $50 to $75. This covers the rising cost of materials that student teachers require.
"This is a fee which hasn't increased since 1995," said Dr. Ann Calahan, head of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction.
The next fee addressed was the fee for off-campus programs, which doesn't affect undergraduate students studying solely on the Stephenville campus. The fee does affect students at the Waco and Fort Worth campuses, and graduate students taking only online courses. This fee is going up from $23 to $28, which "covers the cost of faculty and infrastructure," said Dr. Karen Murray, Assistant Vice President for Curriculum and Assessment. The fee for online graduate students is also going up from $300 to $400 per course.
Dr. George Mollick, the Director of the Center for Instructional Technology & Distributed Education, clarified his position by saying he was the "person you blame when things don't work." Because the departments currently pay for classroom technology out of their individual budgets, Dr. Mollick proposed that the fee be raised from $1 per credit hour to $2 per credit hour. This will cover the cost of putting all of the departments on campus on a centralized budget for classroom technology and will allow problems with that technology to be addressed more quickly.
A fee that would only affect graduate students was proposed by Dr. Linda Jones, Dean of the College of Graduate Studies. Dr. Jones proposed that the graduate tuition differential be raised from $10 to $20, and the graduate application fee be raised from $25 to $30.
"This will be used for graduate assistantships, research and faculty salaries," said Jones. "Graduate courses cost more to teach."
The final fee discussed was a new fee for the upcoming academic advising center. The fee, proposed by Calahan and Dr. Dennis Jones, Dean of General Studies, would result in increase of $2 per credit hour.
Students seeking more information are encouraged to attend the fee hearing on Jan. 28 at 5:15 p.m. in Ballroom C of the TSC or contact Dr. Brad Chilton.
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