MCECS Student Fees - Part II
Above is where your MCECS student fees go. On November 19 at 10AM (during Bagel Monday) in the fishbowl, you'll have a chance to have your questions answered by Jennifer Chambers. If you are unable to attend, you can leave questions or comments below, and we will try to pass them on.
posted by emerson at 2:24 PM
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The following is the summary of my note of the Bagel Monday when Jennifer came.
Computer Science Graduate Council has been hosting a Bagel Monday in the Fishbowl student lounge in front of the CS Office at 10:00 on Monday mornings, about twice a month. CS graduate students, faculties, or anyone who is interested in computer science come together and chat having breakfast of toasted bagels with cream cheese, coffee, and maybe some fruits or sweets.
On the CS Bagel Monday 2007-11-19, Jennifer Chambers (jennifer@cecs.pdx.edu), the Chief Accounting and Budgetary Officer of MCECS, to answer the student's curiosity of how their engineering resource fees are used.
Jennifer first explained how the resource fee is charged and used in the current system, and gave answers to related questions. The Oregon University System (OUS) allows schools to charge optional resource fees for the departments that need costly resources for education. In PSU, Students majoring in engineering pay resource fee in addition to the tuition, $35 per credit are charged for maximum 10 credits. The basic guideline of the use of the student fee is to directly benefit the students. The major use of the resource fee supports the Computer Action Team (CAT), such as the salaries of the CAT members. According to the MCECS Resource Fee Allocation of Fiscal Year 2008, 56% of the resource fee is allocated to the CAT. For further details, you can download the charts from the CS Graduate Council homepage.
Then, she introduced how the resource fee is going to change from Fall 2008. As mentioned, the resource fee is charged based on which department the student belongs to. That is, in the current system, an engineering student pays engineering resource fee even if he or she takes non-engineering courses, while a non-engineering student does not pay engineering resource fee for taking engineering courses. However, from Fall 2008, the resource fee will change to course based, included in the tuition. That is, each department will have different tuition rates per credit for their courses.
For engineering students, this is a positive change because they will only pay resource fees for their major courses. Especially, the students who has tuition support, such as graduate assistants, will benefit from the new system because they don't have to pay separate resource fees from their own pocket. Non-engineering major students, including freshmen or second year students who hove not decided their major yet, will be paying more for engineering courses than other courses that do not charge resource fee from Fall 2008.
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