UPDATE: Check out The Desert Lamp's Rec/Health fee breakdown and while you're at it, take their Campus Policy Survey.Update: A Facebook group has been established to protest the Health/Rec Fee.
While GPSC and ASUA try to come to a consensus on fee recommendations, Shelton goes ahead and releases his plan: http://uanews.org/node/30192
If you can read between the "Yeah UA" lines, you'll basically see that in addition to increasing graduate and undergraduate tuition (again), Shelton would also have each of us paying $665 in additional fees next year (for some, an over 400% increase): "In addition to a new Campus Sustainability Fee of $24 and a Health and Recreation Fee of $306, Shelton has proposed an increase of $335 to the Library Information Fee."
The AZ Star reports that tuition and fees may rise about $2,000! Are we the only ones that are more than a little PISSED OFF? Can you afford to shell out about $500 each semester at the beginning of the semester before the university has even started paying you for teaching or research?
E-mail your GPSC Rep and tell them to fight harder for you. Find their e-mail addresses here: www.gpsc.arizona.edu
While you're at it, e-mail ABOR and tell them you can't afford this kind of tricky increase in fees: http://www.azregents.edu/1_the_regents/members/
Here are their e-mail addresses, so you can just cut and paste:
calderon@azlex.com, d.deconcini@att.net, fredduval@cox.net, jennifer.ginther@nau.edu, anne@mariucci.com, rbbulla@cox.net, mclendon@q.com,azregent@gmail.
ABOR ultimately sets tuition and fees, so they are the ones you want to contact!
According to the AZ Star: "Hearings are scheduled for 5 p.m. March 1 at the UA Harvill Building. The Arizona Board of Regents will vote on the proposal on March 11 at the UA."
No time to write an e-mail? Here's one you can cut and paste.
Dear Arizona Board of Regents,
I am a graduate student at the university of Arizona and I am deeply concerned about the proposed increases in fees for the 2010-2011 school year. If passed in their entirety (a $665 increase), they would mean that graduate students would have to come up with approximately $500 each semester before the university has even begun to pay them their salaries for teaching and research. This would add to the already burdensome workload that graduate students carry. In order to remain competitive in research and educational standards, it is essential that these fees be eliminated or included in graduate assistant remissions. We risk losing our excellent graduate student teachers and researchers to universities that offer them a full remission if we do not take this step immediately. Key faculty members rely on graduate assistants, as do the undergraduates whose classes we teach. Please do not risk the future of our state's universities by failing to offer support for these important members of the system.
Thank you for your time and attention to this matter,
Sallygradstudent
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