Appendix I.a — Campus Quality Fee Feedback Forum: Associated Students and the USU Board

Campus Quality Fee Feedback Forum

No. of students in attendance: 12-14

Related to Alternative Consultation Process

Why are the survey respondents shaping the intent of the proposal? (cited 1,400 respondents to survey as being generally less than number that vote at A.S. elections)

(My) general feeling is that the president has already made her decision. I would prefer that the president just work with AS and the university to make this where it's presentable to students. I don't feel as a member of AS that I can represent this proposal.
We feel this should be carried forward as a fee referendum, where the students get to vote on it (four times).

From Multi Impact Analysis Statement: Where is the money that's already being allocated to these projects going to go? Example: What will happen to the university money that is currently being used to subsidize course fees (approx. $700,000)? Why can't it continue to be used for this purpose in order to keep student fees down?
Who will decide where this money is going, and what is the plan for accountability?
Re: technology: Who decides how the money will be spent? Need a process for this where students have influence.
Won't this have an adverse affect on the diversity of our campus, given that the lowest-income students are likely to be of color?
How can you justify proposing a fee in a time when students are gearing up to oppose a tuition increase of 10% that will likely be recurring? Why can't we wait until the governor approves the budget? Why now?

This should be more transparent.
A process should be set for the allocation of these dollars that is made up of and includes student associations.
There is a lot of money in that student services fund. I hope students will be involved in allocating it.
The $250,000 student allocation over three years seems like taxation without representation.
I don't see why students can't develop and manage the entire fee.
The administration should present an allocation request to a student committee for whatever they want to spend this fee money on each year. AS would be willing to serve as this entity.
The athletics portion of the fee makes sense.
I would like to see some of the athletic scholarships diverted to general student scholarships.
The justifications aren't clear enough in the written proposal. The "why" should be included.
This needs to be more specific. What would you spend the money on and how would you go about it? (two comments of this nature)
I don't think the IRA fee is good on accountability. The net balance should be zero.
Intent and accountability should have been built into the front end of this process.
The Rec. Center fee was more accountable to students. We want more accountability.
A lab fee that's imposed on everyone needs to benefit everyone.
The definition of course fees should be more specific and there should be some promise that no new course fees will arise.