April 19, 2013
To:
Athletic Review Committee
Cc:
Members of the SIFC and the Athletic Department
Re:
SIFC review charge for the Athletic Review Committee
As outlined by the Special Commission for Student Fees Strategic Planning (SCSFSP), the Student Incidental
Fees Committee (SIFC) has been charged with the responsibility to conduct reviews of student fee funded
budget areas as a means to evaluate budgetary structures.
I have chosen to end the review process for the 2012 – 2013 school year with the conduction of a review of
Athletic fee.
Review outline:
Create as much dialogue as possible between the Athletic Department, the review committee, and SIFC. The
process should be transparent to all parties involved and should ensure the improvement of the SIFC and
Athletic Department processes.
The scope of this review should include, but is not limited to:
 Fully assess programs and services that are within the scope of student fees.
 Examine the need of the current structure of the Athletic student fee and if a more transactional
based structure would be more efficient and make more sense. In addition, make recommendations
to reform the SIFC Bylaws and Budget Guidelines to reflect these structural changes.
 Develop ways to make sure students with disabilities, student parents, or any other student with
obstacles to waiting in line for hours for football tickets can receive tickets fairly.
 Examine the current system for handing out football tickets, and assess whether it is the most
feasible and most efficient. I would recommend looking at different schools and talking to their
administrators to gather information. Include the cost of different systems for handing out tickets as
well. For example, who pays for security at a line?
 Examine how the athletic department determines student ticket values and make sure this is
transparent for students and SIFC.
 Determine if the current amount of tickets allocated for sports that require tickets (baseball, football,
volleyball, gymnastics, wrestling, and men’s and women’s basketball) is sufficient or insufficient.
Please look into the future as well.
 Establish procedures for if there is no student demand but extra community demand and Athletics
would like to sell student fee paid for tickets to the general public. Look at the past when this has
been done as well.
Committee members:
Co- Chairs:
Terra Setzler, SIFC
Members:
Jeffrey Evans, ASA
Tom Baker, AABC
Jaya Lapham, SHAB
Michelle Marie, SPAB
Clare Cady, HSRC
George Voss, SHS
Bill Calendar, Rec Sports
Michael Henthorne, MU
Timeline: This review should be completed over the course of spring term, and if needed into the summer. It
should culminate with a presentation to SIFC.
Sincerely,
Brad Alvarez
SIFC Chairman 2012-2013
Student.fees@oregonstate.edu