The current student activities fee is $80 per semester for full-time students and $40 a semester for part-time students.\u00a0 This fee provides approximately $90,000 to the Student Government Association (SGA) to distribute to clubs and organizations.\u00a0 During the 2016-2017 budget request cycle, clubs and organizations requested nearly $190,000 in SGA funding, leaving nearly $100,000 worth of activities and programs unable to be funded.\u00a0 In order to be able to provide additional funds to the clubs and organizations, SGA would like to propose that the student activity fee be increased by $5 ($2.50 for part time).\u00a0 This increase would provide approximately $5,600 in additional funding per year.\u00a0 It is further proposed that the $5 ($2.50 for part time) increase occur during each of the next four years, ending with the fall of 2020.\u00a0 The actual fees structure would be as follows:<\/p>\n
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| <\/td>\n | Current<\/p>\n Cost<\/td>\n | Beginning<\/p>\n Fall 2017<\/td>\n | Beginning<\/p>\n Fall 2018<\/td>\n | Beginning<\/p>\n Fall 2019<\/td>\n | Beginning<\/p>\n Fall 2020<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Full-Time Student<\/td>\n | $80.00<\/td>\n | $85.00<\/td>\n | $90.00<\/td>\n | $95.00<\/td>\n | $100.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Part-Time Student<\/td>\n | $40.00<\/td>\n | $42.50<\/td>\n | $45.00<\/td>\n | $47.50<\/td>\n | $50.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Total Estimated Funds for Clubs<\/td>\n | $90,000<\/td>\n | $95,600<\/td>\n | $101,200<\/td>\n | $106,800<\/td>\n | $112,400<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n <\/p>\n The last increase in the Student Activities Fee occurred in 2005.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Voting for SGA officers and the Proposed Increase in the Student Activities fee will occur after the Thanksgiving Break.<\/u><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Although only about half of all requests could be funded, here are the activities that were funded by the SGA this year.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Alpha Phi Sigma–Cords, Stoles and Medallions<\/p>\n Alpha Phi Sigma–ACJS Kansas City Conference<\/p>\n Art Club–Zombie Walk Supplies, Advertising and Trophies<\/p>\n Art Club–New York City Art Trip<\/p>\n AT Club–Conference Speaker<\/p>\n AT Club–Travel to the Maine Athletic Trainers Association Fall Conference<\/p>\n AT Club–Travel to the Maine Athletic Trainers Association Spring Conference<\/p>\n AT Club–Travel to the WATA meeting in Boston<\/p>\n Bio-Medical Club–Brain Awareness\/Brain Bee<\/p>\n Bio-Medical Club–Medical Tour of optometry and veterinary schools<\/p>\n Business Club–Booth Supplies<\/p>\n Business Club–New York City Trip<\/p>\n Community Recreation–Free Student Ice Skating at the Forum<\/p>\n Community Recreation–Free Student Skiing at Big Rock<\/p>\n CJ Club–Freshmen Welcome Packets<\/p>\n CJ Club–Alumni Mailings for Homecoming<\/p>\n CJ Club–Exam Survival Kit Mailings<\/p>\n CJ Club\u2014Washington, D.C., Trip<\/p>\n CRU–Supplies Budget<\/p>\n CRU–Portland Trip<\/p>\n Geo-Ecology Club–Iceland Trip<\/p>\n Ice Hockey Club–League Fees<\/p>\n Ice Hockey Club–Practice Ice Time<\/p>\n Intramurals–Supplies and Equipment<\/p>\n International Student Club–University Day Program<\/p>\n International Student Club–Spring Festival and Chinese Culture<\/p>\n International Student Club–Calligraphy<\/p>\n International Student Club–Graduation Celebration<\/p>\n International Student Club\u2014D.C. Trip<\/p>\n KDP\u2014NAS–Supplies<\/p>\n KDP\u2014NAS–Sunday River Conference<\/p>\n OOPS–Worcester, MA Conference<\/p>\n Outing Club–Subsidizing equipment and trips<\/p>\n Page Turners–Books<\/p>\n PE Club–Fit and Fun Day<\/p>\n PE Club–MAPHERD Conference<\/p>\n Phi Eta Sigma–Supplies<\/p>\n Phi Eta Sigma–National Conference<\/p>\n PWH–Supplies<\/p>\n PWH–Portland, ME trip<\/p>\n PWH–Africa trip<\/p>\n SEAM–Supplies<\/p>\n SEAM–Rockland Workshop<\/p>\n SEAM–Annual State SEAM Leadership Conference<\/p>\n SEAM–Annual National SEAM Leadership Conference<\/p>\n Student Activities Office Activities–Speakers, Dances, Performers, Homecoming, Welcome Week, Orientation, Etc.<\/p>\n Student Activities Office–SAB NACA Conference<\/p>\n SGA Budget–Scholarships, activities, awards, supplies, etc.<\/p>\n SOSW–Supplies<\/p>\n SOSW–Hunger Dialogs Trip<\/p>\n Track and Field–Bridgewater State University Trip<\/p>\n Track and Field–Fitchburg State University Trip 1<\/p>\n Track and Field–Fitchburg State University Trip 2<\/p>\n Track and Field–Regis College Trip<\/p>\n UMPI 100% Club–Supplies<\/p>\n UMPI 100% Club–Gay Days Funding<\/p>\n UMPI 100% Club–World Aids Day Dance Funding<\/p>\n UMPI 100% Club–Spring Speaker Funding<\/p>\n UMPI 100% Club–Rainbow Ball Trip<\/p>\n University Players–Supplies<\/p>\n University Times–Supplies<\/p>\n University Times\u2014Washington, D.C., Trip<\/p>\n WUPI–Supplies, Tech Support, etc.<\/p>\n WUPI–UMS Radio Station Tour<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The current student activities fee is $80 per semester for full-time students and $40 a semester for part-time students.\u00a0 This fee provides approximately $90,000 to the Student Government Association (SGA) to distribute to clubs and organizations.\u00a0 During the 2016-2017 budget request cycle, clubs and organizations requested nearly $190,000 in SGA funding, leaving nearly $100,000 worth […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7381],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8925,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4537\/revisions\/8925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} |