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May 31, 2001

Activity fees raised at 3 regionals

Increases in student activity fees at the Bradford, Greensburg and Titusville campuses were approved by the Pitt Board of Trustees' student affairs committee on May 29.

The increases would take effect in fall 2001. They require approval by the full board, which is expected to vote on the hikes at its June 28 meeting.

At UPB, the student activity fee would rise from $60 to $75 per term for each full-time student. The increase would meet financial needs of student clubs and organizations and cover higher costs of student activities programs brought to the Bradford campus, according to the campus's administration and the executive committee of UPB's advisory board, which approved the fee hike at the recommendation of the Bradford campus student government association.

The fee was last increased in 1997.

The Greensburg campus student activity fee would rise from $40 to $53 per term for each full-time student and from $14 to $18 for each part-time student. The increase was recommended by the UPG student government association and endorsed by the campus's advisory board to fund rising costs and growing participation in organizational activities.

UPG's fee was last increased in 2000 by $5 per term for each full-time student and $2 per term for each part-time student.

The Titusville campus's student activities fee would increase by $25 to $75 per term for each full-time student, to keep up with rising costs and to expand services provided to students. A major portion of the increase would fund expansion of transportation services available to UPT students.

"It is extremely important to provide these transportation services because of the relative isolation of the Titusville campus and because no public transportation exists in Titusville," according to a background statement to the resolution approved by the trustees' student affairs committee.

The hike was endorsed by the Titusville campus advisory board's executive committee, at the recommendation of the UPT student affairs committee. Titusville's student activity fee was last increased by $10 per term in 1990.

— Bruce Steele


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