Tuition Allocation and Student Fee Review Committee

Purpose

The committee shall serve as ASUW’s oversight board for all university fees, including programmatic, advising, mandatory student and student services fees, as well as tuition dollars. This committee’s purpose can be broken up as follows:

Assessment and recommendation of proposed mandatory studentand programmatic fee increases:

Annual hearing of proposals from units requesting a fee increase with a subsequent recommendation made to the ASUW Senate through legislation and to university leadership.
Annual report of all student dollars collected and their usage.
Conducting a comprehensive and detailed report of all units who collect student fees and their allocation of these fees. Accompanying outreach and education efforts.
Outreach and education to the student body regarding tuition.
Annual outreach and education efforts in partnership with the President’s office and the office of Financial Affairs regarding the Board of Trustee’s tuition policy and any possible increases.
Student Success Priorities.
Annual creation and passage through the ASUW Senate of a list of Student Success Priorities per the Board of Trustees’ Tuition Policy.
Accompanying outreach and education efforts.
Overall assessment of students’ needs for their fee dollars.
Consistent outreach and data collection efforts to the student body in order to assess the merits of new and current fees. This committee should aim to be aware of students’ needs and assess whether these needs are being met by current fees and suggest new fees as necessary.