The Issue:
The university is imposing a tax on student fees, which will redirect funds away from student services
The Facts:
• As a student you pay $1259.91 per year for student lock-in fees, which go to providing money for designated services on campus such as CLAS, Rec-Sports, and Student Health as well as many more.
• These specific fees were voted on and approved by students as part of a major commitment to ensure that services beneficial to the campus remained funded despite a lack of university support.
• Currently the UC system is undergoing about $400 million in budget cuts and our university is searching for ways to fill the gaps in our budget.
• The University is imposing a tax which will redirect student fees from these essential services to cover an increase in administrative costs.
• When these fees were voted on and passed, there was an agreement that these fees would not be changed by the university
Why care?
• A tax on your fees will decrease the amount of funding each organization receives.
• You will be paying the same amount and seeing a decrease in services
• It's your money, it should be spent how you as students voted for it to be spent.
Don't know what your student fees pay for?
The following is a partial list of student services that are funded fully or in part by your student fees:
Arts and Lectures
Bicycle Path Maintenance
Bike Shop
Counseling & Career Services
Child Care Grant
CLAS- Campus Learning Assistance Services
Community Affairs Board
Daily Nexus
Disabled Student Services
Events Center
Educational Opportunity Program
Environmental Affairs Board
Isla Vista Community Improvement Fund
KCSB
MultiCultural Center
Night and Weekend Parking
Resource Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity
Womens' Center
Think any of these are important? If the tax is allowed these and many more student services will lose funding, leaving you as a student to suffer the effects.
Join the fight against the Tax!!
(read less)The Issue:
The university is imposing a tax on student fees, which will redirect funds away from student services
The Facts:
• As a student you pay $1259.91 per year for student lock-in fees, which go to providing money for designated services on campus such as CLAS, Rec-Sports, and Student Health as well as many more.
• These specific fees were voted on and approved by students as part of a major commitment to ensure that services beneficial to the campus remained funded despite a lack of...
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