Course Fees
Salt Lake Community College continually focuses on our fiscal responsibility to maximize Access and Affordability for our students. 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.
Guidelines
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.
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.
Process
Course and Program Fees policy
Timeline
- A Course and Program Fees Committee is established by the Provost to review and make fee recommendations annually.
- Early November: Course fees report & instructions provided to to academic administrators by the Chair of the Fees Committee.
- After Fall Semester finals and prior to the holiday break: Course fees proposals are returned to the Chair by the academic administrators.
- January: Fees Committee evaluates fee proposals and prepares a written Course Fees Report and Recommendations for the following academic year. Report is submitted to the Provost.
- Early February: Provost presents the Course Fees Report and Recommendations to the Executive Cabinet where it is reviewed, discussed, and decided at the Executive Cabinet budget meeting.
- Early March: The Course Fees Report and Recommendations are presented to the SLCC Board of Trustees by the President.
- For fees to be implemented for the upcoming year, the Board of Trustees must approve new, continued, and revised fees by mid-March.
- Course fees are effective Summer Term through Spring Semester.