Tags
Related Posts
Share This
TWUSA fee raised by $5
After going ten years without raising student fees, Trinity Western University’s Student Association has decided that the time has come to increase them. TWUSA will increase student fees by $5 per student, beginning this Spring semester.
Student enrolment at TWU has been in decline for the past several years, decreasing the amount of fees TWUSA collects. Because they directly receive funding from the student fee, a decrease in enrolment results in a decrease in their operating budget. In fact TWUSA’s budget this year is $40,000 less then it was five years ago.
TWUSA sees the student fee increase as a necessary way to protect some core services and events that TWUSA operates. According to Jason Brandl, TWUSA Executive Vice President, “recent councils have already cut fall Hootenanny, reduced costs of staple events and reduced proposals budgets which allows students to request funding for any idea a student wants to pursue.”
The increase has already been budgeted for in the 09-10 Annual General Budget. A large portion of the increase has gone towards student proposals, Mars’ Hill, and the Pillar yearbook.
According to Brandl, the increase “is minimal compared to the increase tuition has seen.”
What Steve!! Why!! We already pay $20,000 + a semester!! Argh!
I’m at UBC now, paying something like $600 a year in student fees, with a very generous estimation that under half of that returns as benefit to me. One nice thing about TWUSA: socialists they ain’t.
And I hope Mars’ Hill got new equipment out of that!