Charting UL Enrollment since 1901

[cjbcajun]

Students have to vote yes...

[SlappyCajun]

When were those votes. Most fees that have been voted for over the past ten years have passed.

i.e. Union, Auxillary fee, Band Cheerleaders.

Do you remember?

[nathancpike]

When were those votes. Most fees that have been voted for over the past ten years have passed.

i.e. Union, Auxillary fee, Band Cheerleaders.

Do you remember?

Not sure, but these numbers came straight from my Spring 2011 Statement of Account.

[Oiler]

_ Students have to vote yes... _

Lets have a vote on it then. If the students won't support such an initiative, then the situation is hopeless. It will be a decade or more before RCAF will raise the kind of money a $150-$200 per semester fee would raise.

[Boomer]

_ INSURANCE $ 22.00
REG.FIXED 45.00
GEN REGI 1501.15
STU UNION 23.00
STU TECH 75.00
FIXED FEE 31.60
ENERGY FEE 48.00
STU HLTH 20.00
PARK/TRANS 25.00
RECREATION 20.00
STU UNION 55.00
ART MUSEUM 5.00
ACAD EXCEL 120.00
ATH IMPROV 15.00
BAND ASSOC 5.00
CHEERLEADR 4.00
OPER. FEE 61.20
LYCEUM 0.55
STU UNION 20.00
STU HLTH 5.00
S G A 7.50
ARTS FEE 7.00
AUX OPER 100.00
TOTAL: $ 2216.00 _

Thank you---- boy I love to know what the correct answer is when all the "I heards etc". are brought up in discussions!!!!

[Turbine]

Here was a group of articles on the subject (written by Dan McDonald) way back in 2001 and 2002 LINK

[cajun4life]

FIU charges $7.31 per hour just for football and another $6.90 per hour for the rest of the athletic department. FIU's football fee brings in $321,640 per credit hour and $3,859,680 per semester and $7,719,360 per year.

Not some measly $15 bucks per semester, that is not a fee for athletics. Now if it were $15 per credit hour then I would agree that we have a fee, but we do not.

[CajunCrazy]

Im all for a fee to help out athletics but I think the vote would be interesting especially due to the recent tuition increases and rumors of future increases. Then again, having been involved with stuff like this and the knowledge of how most of it works, in the past when these votes have come up very few students actually vote. I think only a few hundred actually voted for the New Union fee.

[CajunT]

_ FIU charges $7.31 per hour just for football and another $6.90 per hour for the rest of the athletic department. FIU's football fee brings in $321,640 per credit hour and $3,859,680 per semester and $7,719,360 per year.

Not some measly $15 bucks per semester, that is not a fee for athletics. Now if it were $15 per credit hour then I would agree that we have a fee, but we do not. _

That's not going to happen. Student Fees are allowed for facility improvements like the
Moncla Indoor Field and student union. Those fees are temporary, not permanent. The UL-System board will not change the rules to allow student fees for funding athletic budgets. If you could get $150 per year, then you could use it along with bonds to pay off the stadium improvements. Of course you would need RCAF and others to help pay those bonds down over the next 10 years.

[cajun4life]

_ That's not going to happen. Student Fees are allowed for facility improvements like the
Moncla Indoor Field and student union. Those fees are temporary, not permanent. The UL-System board will not change the rules to allow student fees for funding athletic budgets. If you could get $150 per year, then you could use it along with bonds to pay off the stadium improvements. Of course you would need RCAF and others to help pay does bonds down over the next 10 years. _

I honestly think that is the route that UL should go. LSU did something similar while I was in school with a campus beautification fee of $100 in order to fund on campus improvements.

I think we could implement a ten year $12.50 per credit hour fee to fund athletic facility improvements. That would enable UL to self fund nearly all of their athletic upgrades with student fee's. I know that is a lot to a poor student, but if UL athletics take off like I think they will in the next ten years then it will be all worth it. That fee would generate at or around $50M for facility enhancements.