Graduate Students Activities Fee

1. Graduate Students Activities Fee

2. What is Student Activities Fee? • Fee collected from every graduate student every term, which goes directly to a fund controlled and dispersed by GPSA. • Its purpose is to provide funding for both graduate student groups as well as individual students traveling to conferences, competitions, and other academic activities

3. What is Current Student Activities Fee? Student Activities Fee  Full Part (per year, Boston Campus only) TimeTime • Graduate schools per term  $12 $6 • Law School per term $8 • College of Professional Studies $8

4. What are the changes that can be made? • Current policy for student fees allows an increase no greater than Consumer Price Index (CPI) plus 2%. • Given a 1.8% CPI average for fiscal year 2010, the Graduate Activity Fee allowable increase could be 3.8%.

5. What are the changes that can be made? • The available options are: 1) No Increase, 2) Increase of $1. • These options apply to the summer fee as well.

6. Conference Funding Applications * Indicates proposed figure based on last year applications and this year’s first funding period applications

7. Student Group Applications

8. Facts and Figures

9. Facts and Figures • Reserved Amount at Start of the year : $ 249,582 • GPSA Budget Amount : ($ 155,635) • GPSA Balance(if all the money is used) : $ 93, 946 • Amount Collected to date in fees by GPSA : $ 94,532 • Projected amount at end of the year : $ 105,000 (Summer Sessions) • Amount with GPSA at start of next year : $ 198, 946

10. Questions?

11. Voting Time The available options are: 1) No Increase, 2) Increase of $1.

12. Thank You!!!!!