MEMORANDUM
____________________________________________________October 1, 1982
TO: Marvin R. Felder
FROM:
RE:
James L. Taylor
Tuition and Fee-Changes
My assignment, as I understand it, had four objectives. First, the changes should raise an additional $200,000 for 1983-84. Second, the planned changes should simplify the current fees structure. Third, the plan should allow our fees to conform with current state law. And last, the changes should be compatible with our current operations, audit requirements etc., to the extent possible. Satisfying objective three required adjustments, which lowered some of our fees. As a result, the back-up work for the plan was a little more complicated than I had anticipated. I do feel that this plan will satisfy all four objectives. There are also places in the plan where adjustments may be made to satisfy other objectives that may develop, e.g., greater in-d-district and out-of-d-district differences, without upsetting the basic structure of the plan. All fees have been fixed at even dollars for ease of calculation.
The changes included in the plan are summarized in the following list:
1. Elimination of the separate fee schedules for long and summer semesters.
4.
5.
2. Setting all lab fees at $8 or less based on expenditures.
3. Lowering our fee for individualized instruction in one-hour music lessons from,
$90 to $75. The $45 charge for half-hour lessons would be maintained.
Setting the tuition for out-of-state students at $40 per semester hour.
Consolidation of our current charges for tuition, registration fee, use fee, and activity fee (activity will include the current I.D. fee, see #7 below) into one charge called
"Tuition and General Fees." The current breakdown of these fees will be maintained in our files for use with the auditor and for business office accounting procedures. Our catalog would show one amount for these four charges, based on hours taken. This one charge is all the student would see on his bill for these fees. Some other fees will appear on his bill, i.e., lab, parking, late, and special (will include music and malpractice insurance fees, see #8 below). The charges under "Tuition and General Fees" would be built from our current fees plus the changes outlined here.

a. b.
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1982
6.
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Increase the registration fee in the following ways:
Add a base amount of $17 per semester to the registration fee.
October 1,
Increase the per hour charge for in-district students by $1 per semester hour (new rate = $2 per hour).
C. Increase the per hour charge for out-of-district students by $5 per semester hour
(new rate = $8 per hour).
7. Elimination of the current separate charge for the I.D. card ($2), inclusion of this charge as a part of the activity fee, and conversion of the activity fee to a fixed rate of $4 per semester per student regardless of the number of solid courses taken. Since we make no distinction between services or activities available to full or part-time students, this seems like a logical change. That is, an I.D. of either type will allow students the same rights.
8. Collect both music fees and malpractice insurance fees under the heading,
"Special Fees," so that malpractice fees can be collected at registration based on the course inventory fee and file information.
The calculations used to arrive at the numbers included in number six above are presented next. Some of the changes summarized above will lower the number of dollars we collect in particular categories e.g., lab and music fees. Therefore, I had to establish the dollars we need to collect as a part of the registration fee, not only to increase the total by
$200,000, but also to make up for the fees which will be lowered.
LAB FEES:
Amount currently collected (dollar amount calculated from enrollments) $34,111
Amount to be collected if all labs are 38 or less 25,540
Needed from other fees
MUSIC FEES:
8,571
Amount currently collected ($90 x 62 students) 5,580
Amount to be collected at $75 per
62 students 4,650
Needed from other fees 930

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1982
REGISTRATION FEE:
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If one registration fee schedule were used for both long and summer semesters, one has to determine how much less regis tration fee money we would collect in the summer.
Semester Eours
Long Semester Rates
In-
District
$24,205 x$1
$24,205
$23,726
X$3
$71,178
Total that would be collected
Actually collected
Needed. as part of increase
Total amount to be made up as a result of changes
Proposed additional dollars
$95,383
123,~72
$27,989
Out-of
District
$37,490
200,000
Total needed from increase j237,490
This proposal suggests that we collect the $237,490 by increasing the current registration fee. The increase is in two parts.
First, a fixed base charge would be added to the current registration fee. This amount would be charged to all students, regardless of the number of hours taken. This charge addxesses the fact that part-time students create the same workload for some offices as do full-time students. The trend toward more part-time students means that the average amount collected from each student has decreased-using only the per hour charge.
The remainder of.the needed amount would be collected via an increase in the hourly registration fee. This proposal suggests a larger increase for out-of-district students than forin-district students.
This proposal would establish a fixed base chaxge of $17 per semester per student as a part of the registration fee. Seventeen dollars per semester per student would generate
$94,299 of additional income over the course of one year or four semesters.
5,547 students (duplicate count) x$17 per student $94,299
The hourly charge would then need to generate the remainder of the funds needed. The lowest even dollar hourly increase (based on 47,931 hours) which will generate the

needed amount is $3 per hour. Therefore, the plan calls for an average hourly increase of
83 per hour for both indistrict and out-of-district students. Since the ratio of in-district to out-of-district students is neaxly 50-50 and since the plan suggests

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Page October 1, a larger increase fox' out-of- d-i strict students, the following increases are proposed:
Current
Proposed
Registration Proposed
In-District
Out-bf-District
Registration
Fee
$1
$3
Per Hour
$1
$5
Increase
$2
$8
The proposed increase times the estimated in-district and out- of- d-i strict hours would produce the following additional income:
In-District Out-of-District
Semester Hours
Proposed Increase
24,205 x$1
T24,205
23,726 xS5
$118,630
Total new dollars from hourly increases
Total new dollars from base charge
Total new dollars from increases
$142,835
94,299
$237,134
The proposed consolidation of fees simma ized in #5 and #8 above results from the following calculations:
.Currently collected from Activity Fee ($5 per
$13,358 student taking 3 solid courses)-
Currently collected-from I.D. Fee (estimated from enrollments) 5,537
$18,
Total of the two f ees 895
If 5,547 students for the -yeax were to share this amount equally, regardless of the number of hours taken, the result would be as follows:
$18,895 divided by 5,547
$3.41 or $4 per student per semester
The $4 Activity-I.D. Fee would produce the following income if the change were made:
Fee Per Hour

$22,188
5,547 students x94
If this proposal were adopted, part-time students (less than 3 solid courses) in long semesters would pay $2 more per semester for Activity-I.D. than they they did for I.D. alone. It is important to note that they have the services now. Full-time students 0 solid courses or more) would pay $3 less in the

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1982
Page 5 October 1, fall semesters and $1 less in the spring semesters. Summer only students who enroll for at least three solid courses at one time would pay $2 less per semester. Summer studen--s who enroll for fewer than three solid courses at a time (the majority of summer students) would pay $2 more per semester.
The consolidation of fees proposed in #5 above and the rates outlined in the other changes would allow us to list our fees in the catalog as follows:

13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
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SEM. HR.
TUITION AND GENERAL FEES
IN-DISTRICT OUT-DISTRICT
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OUT-OF-STATE FOREIGN
1
2
3
4
50
54
58
62
50
66
76
86
71
121
171
221
71
121
171
221
9
10
11
12
5
6
7
8
66
70
77
85
93
101 log
117
96
106 lig
133
147
161
175
189
271
321
371
421
471
521
571
621
271
321
371
421
471
521
571
621
203
:_-217
.231
671
_721
:_771
671
721
.771
173
181
189
197
205
213
221
125
133
141
-149
157
165
.-245
259
273
287
301
315
329
343
357
371
821
871
921
971
1,021
1,071
1,121
1,171
1,221
1,271
`821
871
921
971
1,021
1,071
1,121
1,171
1,221
1,271

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The other fees paid at registration could be listed as follows:
OTEER FEES PAID AT RMISTRATION
Laboratories (see course descriptions) maximum
Parking First Permit Fall Semester 85
First Permit Spring Semester $3
First Permit Summer Semesters $1
Additional Permits any Semester each
$8
Special Fees
81
October
Music - Individualized Instruction
2-hour courses $75
1-hour courses $45
Malpractice Insurance
Late Registration
Rate set by company approximately $10 to $15
Auditing (in addition to tuition and other fees)
$15
$10
The new student schedule card fees lines would look something,like this.
TU& GF
TOTAL REC.NO.
LAB PARK SPECL
TOT 141-00 8.00 5.00 0.00
LATE
0.00
1982
ADJ
STD
154-00
0.00
141-00
154-00 2031
0.00
8.00
0.00
5.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
The proposed rates outlined here would cost students the following amounts for 15 and 6 hour loadB respectively. The charges are for any semester except for the parking charge which is for a fall semester.
Load
Tuition & GF
Parking
Semester Hour Load
In-District Out-of-District
In-District Out-of-District
5
$146
$,).a.
-- 5
_$236
__ 6 Semester Hour
$231 _$70
5
$75 $111

Current rates and fees structures produce the following amounts for the same students.
6 Semester Hour 15 Semester Hour Load
Load
In-District
In-District
$6o $60
Out-of-District
Out-of-District
$25 Tuition
Fees:
Registration
Use 30
15
30
45
12
Activity
Parking
I.D.
5
5
2
$117
5
5
2
11-47
-
5
2
$50
$25
6.18
12
-
5
2
$62

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The total cost for students with these loads at current proposed rates are compared below:
1 -Semester Hour Load
In-District Out-of-District
Current Rates
6 Semester Hour Load
In-District
$117
Out-of-District
$147 $50
Proposed Rates
75
146 ill.
236
Increase $ 29
$49
$ 89 $25
The differences between in-district and out-of-district costs at current and proposed rates are as follows:
15 Hours 6 Hours
Current Difference
Proposed Difference
$30$12
$go$36
The costs at other community colleges for these same students are attached. Fifteen-hour loads are presented on one page; six-hour loads are shown on the other.
Other ways of analyzing the proposed increases also exist. For example, the in-d-istrict and out-of-district differences can be compared with the taxes an in-district person would pay.
House Value
Tax Rate
Tax
440,000
$-15 per $100
$60
In one year an-out-of-clistrict student who takes a fifteen-hour load and attends only the two long semesters would pay $180 more than an in-d-istrict student would pay.
However, in-clistrict students would pay an equal amount in taxes in three yeaxs if they or their parents owned a $40,000 home.
If an out-of-district student takes fifteen-hour loads in the long semesters and a six-hour load in each of the summer semesters, he would pay $252 more than an in-d-istrict student with similar loads. The in-d-istrict tax payer would make up the difference in 4.2 years if he or his parents owned a $40,000 home.
$62

Another way of viewing the proposed increase is to examine the percentage of the total expenditures covered by the student's tuition and fees.

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Year
1972-73 1973-74 1974-75 1975-76 1976-77 1977-78 1978-79 1979-80 198o-81 1981-82
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Percent of Total From Tuition
14.6%
13.6%
13.8%
13.8%
12. 5%
12.294,
11.9%
10.5%
10.4%
8. o%
October 1, 1982
Expenditures and Fees
If for 1980-81 the total tuition and fees had been $200,000 more than the amount actually collected ($497,091), the percent of the total expenditures ($4,766,315) covered by tuition and fees would have been 14.6%. That is, the students would have paid at the 1972-73 percentage level.
If for 1981-82 total tuition and fees had been $200,000 more than the amount actually collected ($451,292), the percent of the total expenditures ($5,603,404) covered by tuition and fees would have been 11.6%. That is slightly less than the 1978-79 level.
The history of student costs at TJC for fifteen-hour and six-hour loads is presented in the following chart.
Year
Cost for a Fifteen-Hour Load In-District Out-of-District
Cost for a Six-Hour Load
In-District Out-of-District

1971-72
1972-73
1973-74(1)
1974-75
1975-76
1976-77
$94
94
94
99
99
99
$106
106
lo6
ill
ill
ill
$39
39
39
44
44
44
1977-78
1978-79(2)
1979-80
198o-81
1981-82(3)
1982-83
Proposed
99 lo6-50 lo6-50 lo6-50
117
117
-1746----
ill
118.5o
118-50
118.50
147
147
7~36
44
47
47
47
50
50
75
1) Parking increased from $3 to $5 and I.D. added at $2. 2) Use fee increased from $1 to $1.50 per hour.
(3) Use fee increased from $1.50 to $2.00 and registration fee for out-ofdistrict increased from $2.00 to $3-00-
$45
'45
50
53
53
53
45
50
50
50
62
62 ill

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1982
Pag e 10 October 1,
There are two other charges I would like to have considered while we are considering fees. I would like to have the service charge for schedule changes increased from the current rate of 91 per change to $5 plus $1 for each change. This charge, as well as other service charges, is designed to help to cover some of the costs involved in handling the item. The additional $5 per person per change would help cover a little more of the cost of processing such changes. A list of the charges including the proposed change is attached. They would appear in the catalog as "CHARGES FOR PARTICULAR
SERVICES OR ACTIVITIES."
CHARGES FOR PARTICULAR SERVICES OR ACTIVITIES
Parking and traffic violations
*Schedule changes $5.00
$3-00 plus $1.00 per change
$5.00 Returned checks regardless of reason
Graduation $15-00
Late Graduation
Transcript $2.00
$25-00
Residence Hall Deposit
Dormitory Charge $807.25
$50-00
CLEP Test Fee
Institutional Credit Examination set by CEEB
Property Damage Replacement Cost
$15-00
*11roposed change from $1 per change
I would also suggest the abolishment of the $5.00 matriculation fee. We currently hold
$5.00 of a student's tuition if they withdraw prior to the first class clay. We collected this amount from approximately 22 people this fall. As a way of avoiding the negative feelings generated in a few cases by this charge for such a small amount-of money, I suggest we stop--collecting it.