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Show WEDNESDAY, MARCH (geaaaBBEBSBSSSBSi - UlAltaUNNtWb.UUiVI L Tuition, student fees raised BY DIANA FOSSET DianaFossetDSN Student fees and tuition rates at Dixie State University are on the rise. Members of the Student Fees Allocation Committee and DSU administrators presented their proposed plan for student fee allocation for the 2016-1- 7 school year at the Truth in Tuition forum March 1 in the Dunford Auditorium. Student fees will increase by $12 next e semester for all students once the plan is approved by the board of trustees and the Utah State Board of Regents. This rise in student fees would reflect the possible rise in tuition, which the State Legislature controls. For those who are not e students, Dean of Students Del Beatty full-tim- full-tim- 12-cre- 20-cre- it. We worked with President (Biff) Williams, and he agreed to take the sum of that fee from institutional costs so that we have money to work with, Devore said. The theater, dance, music, and art fund was as the fine arts fee, Devore said. Another large change that will occur are the plans to move the Multicultural and Diversity Center, which was also announced by Beatty. Beatty said the current position of the MCDC was not mobility-friendlhoused as it is under the Student ed Watch multimedia reporter Ally y, Hunter's video on Dixie that involvement is posed Politics and P12i to encourage student di. cussion of political jssil and feed students at the same time. The Institute of tics and Public Affairs, something a lot of already have, Devore said. Were km of behind the curve. As this fund will receive only $1 of each students fees, Devore said those who run the institute will collaborate with Dixie State University Student Association for a few years to get it off the ground. The student fee allocation process here is one of the best, most The current plan is to move the MCDC in the next few weeks to the second floor of the Browning Learning Resource Center. This should last for a few years while the Gardner Student Center gets renovated so the MCDC can eventually move into the Gardner Student Cen- ter, Beatty said. Also during the meeting, six programs received approval for an increase of funding, including the intramural and fitness programs, department of student involvement, Health and Wellness Center, Testing Center, fine arts program and the MCDC. There was one new fee introduced by Devore, which will be called Institute of Politics and Public Affairs. He said purpose of this new fee to is increase student involvement in politics both on the local and national level. Part than any other student-funde- d fee is currently receiving. Student Body President Matt Devore, a senior integrated studies major from Mesquite, Nevada, said the Student Services Program will not disappear as a working program, but student fees are no longer going to fund said linear student fees have just been approved. Bryant Flake, executive director of institutional planning and budget, said linear fees will allow for student fees to be paid depending on credit load. The fees will start at $32.66 per credit, then load to a at a load, the student fees will stay at $368. Linear fees just make the costs more fair to all students, Flake said. One of the biggest changes announced to student fee allocation is the Student Services Program is being done away with as a student fee, reallocating the $55.90 of fees for that program into the Human Performance Center fund. With this additional income, the Human Performance Center fund will receive $115.75 out of every student's fees, which is more a- PR' s transparent processes ever seen, Beatty said Beatty said he wanted the audience to continue to be invol ed in the allocation proci.'S and to tell others about it. State University's construction plans at DixieSunNews.com. M !T1 4: P S' 1 ' , FlU5n i . - l ; vs, -.-rc- w T-l:- --- ir-r- -p hi ' A S' i r-- .j v A: NV ' -- .. J - C' ' rjtr 1 i 7 ab ed ac, m DIXIE SUN NEWS ha foi co Emily Havens, Editor-in-Chi- ef Spencer Ricks, News Editor Drayson Ball, Sports Editor Markee Heckenliable, Features Editor Diana Fossett, Opinion Editor Jalen Jones, Photo Editor Parker Mayberry, Multimedia Editor Emily Fisher, Social Media Editor Nijat Aliyev, Copy Editor Dallin Spackman, Ad Manager DSU officials seeking millions of dollars in funds for upcoming construction plans BY SPENCER RICKS Arruda Justin Badger Austin Clark Pitching Dixie State Universitys strategic plan to community members, alumni and philanthropists, Ken Beazer hopes to raise over $30 million in the coming years for DSU. Beazer, a DSU development officer, is tasked with reaching out to potential donors to ask them for money to fund projects like the Human Performance Center and Hansen Stadium renovations. Beazer said he has helped raise about $5 million so Katelynn Disney Alannah Hall Hunter Porter Larsen Dan Lauper Parker Mayberry Ally Kelby Morrison Bre Opdahl Alexis Winyvard Rhiannon Bent, Adviser HOW TO REACH US Dixie State University Jennings Bldg 225 S 700 E St George, UT 84770 Phone (435)552-781- 8 Fax (435) far. 655-401- 9 dixiesundixie edu wwwdixiesunnews com Ads dixiesunadsdixieedu or (435) 41 The Dixie Sun News is distributed each Wednesday during fall and spring semesters as a publication of Dixie State University the communication department and Dixie State University Student Activities DSU administrators do not approve or censor content The student editorial staff alone determines its news coverage The unsigned editorial on the opinion page represents the position of Dixie Sun News as determined by its editorial board Otherwise the views and opinions expressed in Dixie Sun News are those of the individual writers and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Dixie Sun News or any entity of the university j Its quite an aggressive plan to get all these projects funded, Beazer said. A lot of people are interested in helping, and a lot of donors have stepped up as well. President Biff Williams said DSU has recently received a very significant gift from a donor that will be announced soon. if Williams said completing the Human Performance Center is DSUs No. priority for the future. Once completed, the Human Performance Center will house the only J d sti pr ' ha da n 1 Olympic-size- m: wi co Human Performance Center SpencerRicks Jess foi Nr cr ' cc Si I "film swim- li i JHJ k ming pool in Washington County, as well as an indoor track and classrooms for health science courses. st f it V 51 Williams said he hopes St the ground for the Human Performance Center will t be broken by August 2017. DSUs request for an additional $40 million to Steel beams are laid on the structure of Campus View Suites, a new student tot help fund the housing complex set completed in July Other construction plans for Dixie State University include a Human Performance Human Performance CenCenter, renovations to DSU's athletic complexes, and a ter was declined by Utah parking garage lawmakers during the most said. recent legislative session the fact that the Human dents fees will go tovU1 in February. Williams said, While lawmakers acPerformance Center won't the Human Performance during the next legislative be replacing or adding knowledged DSU's need Center Fund. for a building like the Husession in 2017, DSU adonto an existing building. The Human Perfoministrators will only ask man Performance Center, At the Truth in Tuition rmance Center is somfor $25 million. The rest Williams said they didn't forum March , members ething the students pro' of the funding for the Husupport the project this of the Student Fee AllocaWilliams said posed, man Performance Center year because of the lack tion Committee and DSU it were up to me, I P1'0' will come from donations of funding from sources administrators announced and student fees, Williams other than student fees and $ 15.75 from every stu page- ha fo Vi sti M -- X $50-milli- 1 1 see PLANS - th sa me D thi dii Ca be lif dri of at ov air me bn stu Wi |