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Course Fees

Salt Lake Community College is committed to fiscal responsibility and to maximizing access and affordability for our students. As part of this commitment, each year course fees are evaluated to ensure they are set, collected, and used at a reasonable rate to students. Course fees are approved annually by the SLCC Executive Cabinet and Board of Trustees and effective for the following year.

Course fees should be kept to a minimum whenever possible to avoid increasing the financial burden on students. Fees are only assessed to cover specific, direct, and allowable costs for a course or program. These fees must be used for the benefit of the enrolled students in the course or program to avoid passing costs onto the general student population. Course fee revenue shall not accrue over time.

Policy

SLCC Course Fees Policy and related processes define and guide the purpose, collection, and acceptable use of course fees. It also includes examples of acceptable course fees and where course fees are situated in the matrix of funding teaching and learning materials.

Course and Program Fees Policy

Process

  1. By early November each year, the committee chair and Controller will provide prior year fee approvals, index and account trends, and instructional support to academic administrators who prepare fee proposals for the next fiscal year.
  2. After Fall Semester finals and prior to the holiday break, fee proposals are returned to the committee chair by the dean or associate vice-president.
  3. In January, the committee evaluates fee proposals, prepares a written report and recommendation, and submits to the Provost.
  4. By early February, the Provost presents the report and recommendation to the Executive Cabinet for review. Proposals are reviewed, discussed, and approved at the Executive Cabinet budget meeting.
  5. The report and recommendation are forwarded to the Board of Trustees for consideration at their next scheduled meeting in March. The college president will present the fees report and recommendations to the Board of Trustees for approval, modification, or rejection.
  6. In order for course and program fees to be implemented for the upcoming fiscal year, the Board of Trustees must approve new, continued, and revised fees by mid-March.