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Committee exhausts funds, leaving student organizations to fight for their own funding

Wed, 20 May 2009 04:00:00 GMT

"All of a sudden, we found out there was no more money," said Shuennhau Chang, ASU treasurer.

For students, there is a new reality: Instead of turning to Campus and Community Life (CCL), students must find other sources to fund their programs. Quiroz's sorority members are turning to family and friends for support. Other organizations are going back to fundraising.

Funding affects student orgs in different ways

Wed, 20 May 2009 04:00:00 GMT

IUPUI is home to 298 student organizations that range from College Republicans to Gay-Straight Alliance and the Gamers Guild.

Each organization at IUPUI is eligible to apply for funding generated by the student activity fees. Some student groups are more successful at it than others.

General Services fee used widely across campus

Wed, 20 May 2009 04:00:00 GMT

The alarm awakes Katie Buxton early on a Thursday morning. She hits the snooze button a few times before actually getting the strength to climb out of bed. For the IUPUI student, the day will be long. Most of her time will be spent in class, in the Math Assistance Center and finishing homework in an IT building computer lab.

Student orgs get assistance through fee money

Wed, 20 May 2009 04:00:00 GMT

Gamers' Guild President Drew Day wants his IUPUI student organization to be taken more seriously.

"We are bigger than what people realize - gaming is bigger than what people realize," Day says. "There are so many people that game on this campus."

Day says those people come in droves to the education building for Friday meetings, where students can hang out and share their various gaming passions: everything from Halo 3 to Dungeons and Dragons.

Students remain skeptical of changes in student technology fees

Wed, 20 May 2009 04:00:00 GMT

During the Spring 2009 semester, Chancellor Charles R. Bantz announced undergraduate student technology fees would be administered by University Information Technology Services. Prior to the announcement, 50 percent of the collected funds were divided between UITS and IUPUI's 18 academic schools.

THE TIMELESS QUESTION: Where is the money?

Wed, 20 May 2009 04:00:00 GMT

This year students paid an accumulated $4 million in activity fees, of which approximately 80 percent goes toward the Campus Center.

Kevin Walsh, fiscal officer for Academic Affairs and Student Life, said while each funded unit under this fee creates quarterly or monthly financial reports, no single person or department keeps records of how all units use their funds.

Where does the fee money go???

Wed, 20 May 2009 04:00:00 GMT

Approximately 80 percent of the total activity fee goes toward the Campus Center: 65.4 percent toward the bond and 14.2 percent toward the operating budget.

Katie Robinson, assistant director for the Campus Center, indicated that approximately 98 percent of student dollars (from the activity and general services fees) goes toward salaries, which include paying seven professional staff, one graduate assistant and 45 student employees.

SDFC deals with continued growth in proposals from student orgs

Wed, 20 May 2009 04:00:00 GMT

IUPUI currently lists on its website 306 student organizations, all of them able to get a piece of the money that is made available to them by the university through student fees.

For the 2008-2009 school year, IUPUI collected nearly $4 million in fees. Of the $4 million, only $155,000 was available for student organizations: $125,000 from the Student Organization Grant Fund (SOG) and $30,000 from the Educational Enhancement Grant Fund (EEG).