By Juan Montoya
Remember we threatened to list the fees that students must pay when they attend our local Ivory Tower (UTB-TSC) in a previous posting?
Well, you can't say we didn't warn you. These "required fees" have risen steadily in the past few years, and now comprise a considerable chunk of change. And, as usual, TSC board of trustee candidate Rosemany Breedlove has been content to sit back and approve every n
ew "fee" request from the administration.
Only until her opponent in the runoff Kiko Rendon raised the issue did she even consent to having a "workshop" to address the issue. These are some of the fees that Breedlove has consented to increase over the 12 years she has been rubber stamping Juliet Garcia's demands to increase costs for students.
Student Services Fee: $12 per semester hour ($50 maximum)
Student Union Fee: $45 per long semester (Note: Remember that the administration used politiqueras to ram though the vote on this fee? They voted for it and are happy to pay for it, Juliet will smugly tell you.)
Computer Use Fee: $2 per semester credit hour
Records Fee: $10 per semester
Automated Services Fee: $45 per semester
Academic Advising Fee-Undergraduate: $50 pert semester
Academic Advising Fee-Graduate: $25 per semester
Building Use Fee: $2,50 per semester hour (TSC only) (Note: Now, remember that the original college buildings were already there and paid by the parents of local students. The new UTB buildings have all been paid by local taxpayers because the UTB wrested the concession as a result of the "partnership agreement" that local taxpayers would build the facilities and they would rent them. UTB, by the way, is about $10.5 million in arrears on their rent. In other words, they're deadbeats. But why should local students have to pay a building use fee?)
Library Fee: $5 per semester credit hour (You know, the library that now hold only two-thirds of the books the old library held and the other third was thrown out because they were inconveniently too many for the new digs.)
International Education Fee: $2 per semester hour
Medical Services Fee: $20 per semester
Student Recreation Fee: $79 per semester
Athletic Fee: $7 per semester hour
(It doesn't really matter if you don't get sick, play sports or take part n any recreational activities. You still have to pay.)
Business Administration Accounting Department Computer Usage Fee: $30
Applied Business Technology Department Fee: $65
Physics and Astronomy Department Fee: $30
School of Education-Foreign Field Experience Fee: $50
ALLIED HEALTH DEPARTMENT:
FISDAP Skills Tracker (EMSP 1166)- $95.00
BLS Certification (EMSP 1166): $5.00
PHTLS Certification (EMSP 1355): $20
PALS Certification (EMSP 2330): $5.00
PALS Certification (EMSP 2444): $5.00
NURSING DEPARTMENT:
Meds' Total Curriculum Support and ADN Program: $97.50
Nursing Department: Nursing Skills Course Fee: $18.00
HESI-Mental Health, OB, and Pedi Exams: $21.00
HESI-Capstone Exam: $37.00
LSRN-Remediation and Handling: $30
Orientation: $30.00
HESI-Pedi, OB and Psy Exams: $$63.00
HESI-Intro to Professional Nursing: $43.00
Special Education (SPED) Assessment Instruments Fee: $25.00
Vocational Nursing Orientation Fees: $30
Vocational Nursing Applied Skills I: $60
Vocational Nursing Graduation Certificate Fee: $8.00
Add/Drop Fee: $5.00
Alternative TASP Remediation Fee: $75.00
Auditing Fee: $50.00
Alternative Certification Program Extension Fee: $1,000.00
Comprehensive Exam Fee (Graduate Students) $50.00
Copy/Print Card Fee: $10.00
Emergency Loan Late Payment Fee: $15.00
Foreign Insurance Fee per semester: $422.00
Graduate Students Application Fee: $30
Graduation Fee: $25.00
Identification Card Replacement Fee: $10.00
Installment Payment Fee: $22.00
Late Admissions Application Fee: $15.00
Late Graduate Application Fee: $15.00
Late Payment Charges-Installments: $5.00
Late Registration Fee: $30.00
Stop Payment Fee (per request): $25.00
Delinquent Accounts (balance over $75.00): $15.00
LIBRARY FEES:
Late Fee: $30 per day that book remains overdue
Overdue Books Fee: $30.00
Overdue Reserve Materials Fee: $20.00
Off-Campus Fees, per course: $5.00
Orientation Fee: $50.00
Orientation No Show/Cancellation Fee: $15.00
Reinstatement Charge: $25.00
Returned Check Charge: $25.00
STUDENT HOUSING FEES:
Private Rooms: $1,865.00
Double Rooms: $1,260.00
Student Liability Insurance Fee: $18.13
TESTING FEES (SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE)
ASSET Test Fee: $5.00
Compass-eWrite: $39.00
Graduation Record Exam (GRE) $115.00
Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT): $225.00
Quick THEA Fee: $10.00
Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFLG): $115.00
Test Score Copy Fee: $1.00
Texas Success Initiative Fee: $48.00
Thesis Binding Fee: $48.00
Transcript Fee (Official): $5.00
Tuition for Excessive Hours: $50 per semester credit hour
Tuition for Repeated Hours: $50 per semester credit hour
Tuition Installment Incidental Charge: $7.50
Vehicle Registration/Operation Permit: $20.00
PARKING CLASSIFICATIONS
Faculty, Staff, Students (annual fee): $60
Afternoon students: $6
Replacement Permit Fee: $1.00
ENFORCEMENT FEES
General Parking Violations: $10.00
No Permit: $25.00
Fire Lane, Disabled, Grass Area, etc.: $35.00
Immobilizer Charge: $10.00
Late Payment Charge (60 days): $25.00
There is still another single-spaced page of required fees for everything from taking child care courses to diesel mechanics. But we will be compassionate to our growing readership (up to four now, we figure) and stop here.
Remember we threatened to list the fees that students must pay when they attend our local Ivory Tower (UTB-TSC) in a previous posting?
Well, you can't say we didn't warn you. These "required fees" have risen steadily in the past few years, and now comprise a considerable chunk of change. And, as usual, TSC board of trustee candidate Rosemany Breedlove has been content to sit back and approve every n
ew "fee" request from the administration.Only until her opponent in the runoff Kiko Rendon raised the issue did she even consent to having a "workshop" to address the issue. These are some of the fees that Breedlove has consented to increase over the 12 years she has been rubber stamping Juliet Garcia's demands to increase costs for students.
Student Services Fee: $12 per semester hour ($50 maximum)
Student Union Fee: $45 per long semester (Note: Remember that the administration used politiqueras to ram though the vote on this fee? They voted for it and are happy to pay for it, Juliet will smugly tell you.)
Computer Use Fee: $2 per semester credit hour
Records Fee: $10 per semester
Automated Services Fee: $45 per semester
Academic Advising Fee-Undergraduate: $50 pert semester
Academic Advising Fee-Graduate: $25 per semester
Building Use Fee: $2,50 per semester hour (TSC only) (Note: Now, remember that the original college buildings were already there and paid by the parents of local students. The new UTB buildings have all been paid by local taxpayers because the UTB wrested the concession as a result of the "partnership agreement" that local taxpayers would build the facilities and they would rent them. UTB, by the way, is about $10.5 million in arrears on their rent. In other words, they're deadbeats. But why should local students have to pay a building use fee?)
Library Fee: $5 per semester credit hour (You know, the library that now hold only two-thirds of the books the old library held and the other third was thrown out because they were inconveniently too many for the new digs.)
International Education Fee: $2 per semester hour
Medical Services Fee: $20 per semester
Student Recreation Fee: $79 per semester
Athletic Fee: $7 per semester hour
(It doesn't really matter if you don't get sick, play sports or take part n any recreational activities. You still have to pay.)
Business Administration Accounting Department Computer Usage Fee: $30
Applied Business Technology Department Fee: $65
Physics and Astronomy Department Fee: $30
School of Education-Foreign Field Experience Fee: $50
ALLIED HEALTH DEPARTMENT:
FISDAP Skills Tracker (EMSP 1166)- $95.00
BLS Certification (EMSP 1166): $5.00
PHTLS Certification (EMSP 1355): $20
PALS Certification (EMSP 2330): $5.00
PALS Certification (EMSP 2444): $5.00
NURSING DEPARTMENT:
Meds' Total Curriculum Support and ADN Program: $97.50
Nursing Department: Nursing Skills Course Fee: $18.00
HESI-Mental Health, OB, and Pedi Exams: $21.00
HESI-Capstone Exam: $37.00
LSRN-Remediation and Handling: $30
Orientation: $30.00
HESI-Pedi, OB and Psy Exams: $$63.00
HESI-Intro to Professional Nursing: $43.00
Special Education (SPED) Assessment Instruments Fee: $25.00
Vocational Nursing Orientation Fees: $30
Vocational Nursing Applied Skills I: $60
Vocational Nursing Graduation Certificate Fee: $8.00
Add/Drop Fee: $5.00
Alternative TASP Remediation Fee: $75.00
Auditing Fee: $50.00
Alternative Certification Program Extension Fee: $1,000.00
Comprehensive Exam Fee (Graduate Students) $50.00
Copy/Print Card Fee: $10.00
Emergency Loan Late Payment Fee: $15.00
Foreign Insurance Fee per semester: $422.00
Graduate Students Application Fee: $30
Graduation Fee: $25.00
Identification Card Replacement Fee: $10.00
Installment Payment Fee: $22.00
Late Admissions Application Fee: $15.00
Late Graduate Application Fee: $15.00
Late Payment Charges-Installments: $5.00
Late Registration Fee: $30.00
Stop Payment Fee (per request): $25.00
Delinquent Accounts (balance over $75.00): $15.00
LIBRARY FEES:
Late Fee: $30 per day that book remains overdue
Overdue Books Fee: $30.00
Overdue Reserve Materials Fee: $20.00
Off-Campus Fees, per course: $5.00
Orientation Fee: $50.00
Orientation No Show/Cancellation Fee: $15.00
Reinstatement Charge: $25.00
Returned Check Charge: $25.00
STUDENT HOUSING FEES:
Private Rooms: $1,865.00
Double Rooms: $1,260.00
Student Liability Insurance Fee: $18.13
TESTING FEES (SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE)
ASSET Test Fee: $5.00
Compass-eWrite: $39.00
Graduation Record Exam (GRE) $115.00
Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT): $225.00
Quick THEA Fee: $10.00
Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFLG): $115.00
Test Score Copy Fee: $1.00
Texas Success Initiative Fee: $48.00
Thesis Binding Fee: $48.00
Transcript Fee (Official): $5.00
Tuition for Excessive Hours: $50 per semester credit hour
Tuition for Repeated Hours: $50 per semester credit hour
Tuition Installment Incidental Charge: $7.50
Vehicle Registration/Operation Permit: $20.00
PARKING CLASSIFICATIONS
Faculty, Staff, Students (annual fee): $60
Afternoon students: $6
Replacement Permit Fee: $1.00
ENFORCEMENT FEES
General Parking Violations: $10.00
No Permit: $25.00
Fire Lane, Disabled, Grass Area, etc.: $35.00
Immobilizer Charge: $10.00
Late Payment Charge (60 days): $25.00
There is still another single-spaced page of required fees for everything from taking child care courses to diesel mechanics. But we will be compassionate to our growing readership (up to four now, we figure) and stop here.
Is it any wonder that more students can't afford to attend Juliet Garcia and Rosemary Breedlove's Ivory Tower?
Coming up next: Breathing the air on Breedlove's campus Fee.
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