[CAUT] Student fees

[Alan McCoy]

Fred,

What are your target ages?

Regarding rebuilding vs replacement, have you put some pianos in the "to be
rebuilt" category, and all others in the "not worth rebuilding" category?

Alan


> From: Fred Sturm <fssturm@unm.edu>
> Reply-To: "College and University Technicians <caut@ptg.org>" <caut@ptg.org>
> Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 17:01:47 -0700
> To: "College and University Technicians <caut@ptg.org>" <caut@ptg.org>
> Subject: Re: [CAUT] Student fees
> 
> Answers below
> --On Monday, December 13, 2004 12:34 PM -0800 Alan McCoy
> <amccoy@mail.ewu.edu> wrote:
> 
>> Hey folks,
>> 
>> I want to make the case to the powers that be here that it would be a good
>> idea to institute a student fee to fund piano maintenance and purchase.
>> I'd like to hear from others who have experience with this.
>> 
>> If you have student fees for these purposes:
>> 
>> 1. How much is the fee? How much is allocated for piano maintenance? Piano
>> purchases?
> 
> $5 per credit hour, not specifically allocated (though there is a general
> plan attached)
>> 
>> 2. Who pays the fee? Music majors only? Minors too? Ed majors?
>> 
> All classes offered by the music department are assessed this fee.
> We started from a premise of needing $X per year to replace the inventory
> on an on-going basis, with a target "oldest piano" age (one for uprights,
> another for grands). I added to that a budget for rebuilding, and one for
> contracting out some of the tuning. We then calculated the number of
> "contact hours" generated by the music department, and came up with a fee
> that would produce the required amount of money.
> In fact, to date all money has gone to buy new pianos (I really, really
> want to retire the loan program, and the chair wants to keep the students
> happy by showing them where the money has gone in a visible way), but that
> will change in another year or so.
> A good bit of impetus was given this proposal by our recent NASM
> evaluation, which identified the piano inventory as a deficiency (I wrote
> that part of the department self-evaluation). This made it easier for the
> chair to get permission from the higher ups from provost office through
> regents to institute the fee.
> I'll also note that out College of Fine Arts instituted a "technology fee"
> to pay for computers and tech assistance a few years back. So we had
> precedents in place. I'll also note that many instances of lobbying for
> funds, over the 18 years I've been here, resulted in absolutely nothing
> from upper administration. I think it might have been possible to get a one
> time allocation in maybe another 10 years: it would have been an
> emergency!!! But then we'd be back to the same old problem. Much better to
> have an annual budget that WE control.
>> 
>> Do you have any advice for me as I put my case together?  What other
>> questions should I be researching?
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
>> Alan
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> 
> Regards,
> Fred Sturm
> University of New Mexico
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