Proposed Program Fee Conversion Presentation before AD/ASG 11/6/2012 Why restructure? • Students being charged multiple program fees in a single term • Fees vary widely across schools/colleges • Students are not paying based on consumption of services 2 Issue: Multiple Fees • Of the 9,680 undergraduate students charged a program fee in Fall 2011, 37% were charged 2 or more program fees. Undergraduate Students Fall 2011 Spring 2012 Summer 2012 Charged at least 1 fee 9,680 9,271 3,446 Charged 2 or more fees 3,572 3,290 522 % paying 2 or more fees 37% 35% 15% 3 Issue: Fees Vary • Rates range from $18 per term to $50 per credit hour • Rates are assessed per term, per credit hour and per number of courses taken depending on the School/College and the career level of the program. – CLAS = $130 per term, CEAS = $50 per credit hour and SPA graduate courses = $93.02 per course 4 Issue: Fees not always consumption based • Most fees are assessed where students pay a flat rate regardless of the amount of credit hours taken. – Students taking fewer credits subsidize the cost of instruction of the individual taking more credits. • If fee revenue is used to cover academic or career advising, non-majors subsidize the cost of services being provided to majors by their home schools/colleges.. 5 Proposal • Two part fee restructure for all schools and colleges on the CU Denver Campus 1. Per-credit hour instructional program fee 2. Major supplement fee 6 Per-Credit Instructional Program Fee • Assessed based on # credit hours taken within a particular school/college • Consumption based • Covers costs associated with instructional support 7 Major Supplement Fee • Assessed per term • Covers costs associated with major-specific expenses, such as academic and career advising • Charged based on the students declared Major. – Majors within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will pay a CLAS major supplement fee. A Civil Engineering major will pay a CEAS major supplement fee. – Exemptions to this fee include Pre-Business, PreEngineering, CLAS and CAM undeclared and CAM freshman. 8 Current Instructional Program Fee Rates compared to Proposed Converted Rates College of Liberal Arts and Sciences College of Engineering and Applied Science College of Arts and Media - Majors College of Arts and Media - Non-Majors Business School Graduate/Undergraduate Business School - Graduate School of Public Affairs - Undergraduate School of Public Affairs - Graduate School of Education and Human Development College of Architecture and Planning Current Program Proposed Converted Major and Fee Rates Program Fee Rates 2012-13 Major Fee Rate SCH Fee Rate $130.00/term $69.70 /term $9.75 /ch $50.00/ch $83.00 /term $44.30 /ch $ 310.06/term $69.48/term $119.88 /term $24.04 /ch $105.00/term $10.00/ch $109.92/term $93.02/course $18.00/term $40.00/term $35.93/ch $16.24 /ch $60.01 /term $133.86 /term $112.30 /term $38.50 /term $5.66 /ch $2.88 /ch $24.44 /ch 9 Outcome • More transparent use of fees • Consistent application of fee rates • Consumption based model where students are paying for the services they are likely to use 10 Okay, but will I pay more? This is Anna… Anna is an undergraduate Economics major taking the following 12 credit hours: • 6 credit hours in College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) • 3 credit hours in the Business School (BUSN) • 3 credit hours in the College of Arts and Media (CAM) Pre conversion: Anna pays $130 to CLAS, $105 BUSN and $69.48 to CAM. Total = $304.48 Converted: Anna pays a CLAS major fee of $69.70 as well as the following program fees: $58.50 to CLAS, $48.72 to BUSN and $72.12 to CAM. Total = $249.04 11 Meet Sam… Sam is an undergraduate Civil Engineering major who is taking the following 15 credit hours: • • • • 6 credits in the College of Engineering and Applied Science (CEAS) 3 credits in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) 3 Credits in the School of Public Affairs (SPA) 3 credits in the Business School (BUSN) Pre conversion: Sam pays $300 to CEAS, $130 to CLAS, $109.92 to SPA and $105 to BUSN. Total = $644.92 Converted: Sam pays a CEAS major fee of $83.00 as well as the following program fees: $265.80 to CEAS, $29.25 to CLAS, $16.98 to SPA and $48.72 to BUSN. 12 Total = $443.75 Next Steps • Schools/Colleges may propose new fee increases on top of the proposed converted rates • Conversion proposal presented to Board of Regents (Spring 2013) • OPFA continued monitoring of fee revenue and expenses • Target implementation date of Fall 2013 13