fau_owl_04 said

fauowls44 said

I'm not a student any more….raise it to whatever you want!   :D

LOL… Right on!

Haha.

I get current students complaining, but what do the rest of us really care for?  Would it be nice if they didn't raise the fees?  Sure, but it's not as if there is a shortage of applicants/students out there.  I paid whatever fees they listed on the invoice when I was in school…I don't think I even looked at what they were charging me for.  If a few students leave because of the increase of a few dollars per credit, whatever….Someone else will pay it to come to FAU.  What's the issue? 

First of all, the choice to attend FAU is yours. You made it, I made it, we all made it.

You made it knowing that there are certain caveats involved, one of which is paying fees associated with the university. Use them or not, the costs are there because that's what it costs to attend this university.

Don't receive Financial Aid? Doesn't matter, you pay the fee for it at $5.16/credit hour.
Don't get involved in clubs or campus activities? Doesn't matter, you pay the fee of $11.96/credit hour.
Don't use the Health Clinic, have your own doctor and your own insurance? Tough sh*t. $9.42/ credit hour.

So, it doesn't matter whether you attend FAU sports events of even like sports at all, because you attend FAU and you're paying for it. Want a degree? It's a package deal. They're not going to cut it out and you'll be lucky if they reduce it even if the department was raking in $50M a year.

And let's not pretend they raised it by $100/person/semester.

The new fee of 17.27/credit hour - old fee of 16.45/credit hour = 82 cents more per credit hour.
The average underclassmen takes 12 credit hours a semester, which means 12 x 0.82 = $9.84 more in fees a semester.
The average upperclassman takes 15 credit hours a semester, which means 15 x 0.82 = $12.30 more in fees per semester.

That's like a bajillion dollars, right? The University Press likes to do this thing all the time where they put high costs in perspective to show you how much better off you'd be if you weren't paying for this or that, like a $70M stadium could buy you 1271271728 DVDs and 1281821219 hotdogs. So let's play that game.

Looking at the increase alone, $9.84 could buy you:

- one meal of fast food; OR
- maybe two packs of cigarettes; OR
- three gallons of gas that would last you, what, a couple days? One day? A half-day?

Wow. If you didn't have that crazy athletic fee increase, you could… enjoy 1/365th of your year a little bit more.

So let's not blow things out of proportion.

Granted, you could say f*ck it and go somewhere else, but the only place you'd be paying less in athletics fees is someplace like UF (which rakes in millions in donations and other deals to basically fund their entire athletics department… not sure why their students are paying anything, to be honest) but come on, if you could be there, you probably would be, so since you can't:

FAU it is, 17.27/credit hour and all.

Besides… hot dogs are bad for you anyway.

And free admission to ANY and ALL athletic events - nice perk to me and everyone on this board, right!

Fee increase was passed today…

Also, housing costs were increased.

The State keeps reducing how much they support the State University system and the State Universities and they may as well be private institutions! Well, no yet anyhow but...