Show third lowest student fees in Utah Elise Bassett Community Editor Salt Lake Community College currently has the third lowest student fees in Utah The Student Fees board succeeded in lowering student fees by for 2010 2011 students Vice President Deneece Huftalin said They looked at anywhere they could see either carry forward dollars or ways that folks maybe could continue to do what they need to do and still give up a little of their line items so that the other folks that w were re in the red could continue to survive Money was taken from the Building Bond Fine Arts Globe Student Media Technology and UTA transportation The students believed that they could take dollars away from those line items Huftalin explained The departments are now expected to rethink how they do things Were going to have to renegotiate with the UTA contract fine arts and lectures are going to have to do things a little differently technology f fare fet r rare are going to have to look at their budget said Huftalin Departments are making due with carry forward dollars leftover left leftover leftover over money to be used next year and are finding ways to more effectively present their case in inthe inthe inthe the future The Fine Arts department lost 25 percent of their student fee dollars Those cultural program dollars are critically important and we need to protect them said Richard Scott chair of the arts cultural events committee I do think we need to be able to present that case more effectively with quantitative backup and we dont don't have that but were we're accumulating that now These departments that lost parts of their funding are concerned about how it will affect the students The fine arts department will have to start changing how many programs they offer or how much they spend on programs I think that it would start to diminish more and more what were we're able to present said Scott everything from cultural event kind of programming and special events for student life and leadership to all the various fine go down Continued on AS Student fees go down Continued from ramAl Al arts programs that occur While some departments may be forced to rethink how they run their programs other departments are now able to help students in ways that were previously unavailable Funds were reallocated to Health and Wellness services and a recycling campaign on campus to strengthen recycling said Huftalin Half of the funds given to Globe Student Media Globe Newspaper Radio and Broadcast were reallocated to the Institutional Advancement for Media This was wa wasl to ensure student student participation According to Joy the director o of public 1 relations the Institutional Advancement Media can now provide internships internships for students perusing a J career in production film and television film There was a new neV newl proposed fee for students students student of applied technology said Huftalin The School of Applied Applied Technology is now receiving funds from student fee According to Joy these are arc students that that- are studying very specific fields This money goes goes goes' straight to that group of of students to help serve them them better 1 |