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Just though I would come out from behind my paperwork and address this one. Instead of charging a fee or tacking on a fee to student fees, etc., why not ask the student government to pay the salaries of the student tutors? After all, the funding that the student government acquires is from the students themselves. Years ago, we did this at the university that I was working at, and the condition was that the funding received from student government could be used to pay only the tutors' salaries and not for anything else (e.g., equipment, etc.) Any monies that were left over, I returned to them at the end of the year (my idea). Although returning $$ was somewhat unheard of at the time, it created trust between the ASG and our program and set precedent for a great working relationship. -- Karin Winnard -----Original Message----- From: Open Forum for Learning Assistance Professionals [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Guillermo Uribe Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 10:34 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Paying for Learning Center through Student Assessment We had to start a 25.00 fee for unlimited access to our tutoring room. This fee produced a 21% drop in the number of individual customers but increased the number of visits per customer and the average duration of each visit. None of this is surprising. We expect the numbers to turn around as students get used to the idea of paying for this service. All of our other student support services (study skills, individual consultations, presentations, etc.) continue to be free for now. At 12:01 AM 1/14/2004 -0500, you wrote: >Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 18:26:29 -0600 >From: Saundra Y McGuire <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Paying for Learning Center through Student Assessment > >Happy New Year Everyone! > > As with most support services, obtaining continued funding for our >center at LSU is a struggle. I've floated the idea of having the students >assess themselves a nominal fee (in the range of $3 - $7) to pay for the >services. I've been asked if there are other universities that use >student fees to pay for this. Does anyone know of other universities who >levy a fee to pay for academic support services? Do you know how much the >fee is? > > Another option would be to charge students who use the services, but >I'd rather not go this route if we can just have each student pay a fee. > > >Have a great semester, >Saundra Guillermo Uribe Ph.D. Director, University Learning Center 1200 E. University Blvd. - Old Main Rm 202 Tucson AZ 85721-0021 520.621.4548 To unsubscribe,send a message to [log in to unmask] In body type: SIGNOFF LRNASST-L To access LRNASST-L archives,point your web browser to http://www.lists.ufl.edu/archives/lrnasst-l.html To subscribe, send email to [log in to unmask] Leave subject blank.In body type: subscribe LRNASST-L To contact list owner,email [log in to unmask] To unsubscribe,send a message to [log in to unmask] In body type: SIGNOFF LRNASST-L To access LRNASST-L archives,point your web browser to http://www.lists.ufl.edu/archives/lrnasst-l.html To subscribe, send email to [log in to unmask] Leave subject blank.In body type: subscribe LRNASST-L To contact list owner,email [log in to unmask]