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>Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:00:45 -0700
>From: Derek Roff <[log in to unmask]>
>To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum
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>Subject: Re: #90531-3 (!) Student Lab Fees
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We have a lab fee of $10 per student per selected language class.  The 
language classes are selected based on historical use of the Language 
Learning Center resources.  For the most part, this means that lower 
division classes pay the fee, and others don't.  However, a few of the 
teachers have opted out, on a long-term basis, and their classes don't 
pay the fee.  And some upper division classes use the labs frequently, 
but they haven't yet gotten into the system to be charged the fee. 
It's silly, but that is what happens here.

I agree with Trip.  I don't like the inconsistency of the lab fee 
system, and I don't think it is a proper way of funding student 
services.  But it is the way things are done on this campus.  Without 
it, we wouldn't have a lab.  The lab fee pays for all of the equipment, 
software and other learning materials, such as videos.  It doesn't pay 
for any salaries, utilities, or other more traditional infrastructure 
costs.

Derek

Derek Roff
Language Learning Center
Ortega Hall 129, MSC03-2100
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001
505/277-7368, fax 505/277-3885
Internet: [log in to unmask]


--On Wednesday, February 4, 2009 1:36 PM -0500 LLTI-Editor 
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> (1) ----- from Trip Kirkpatrick <[log in to unmask]> ---
>
>
>
>> My questions:
>> Does your school charge language students a standard fee for the
>> langauge lab/ language center?
>>
>
> David:
>
> Yale does not charge student lab fees. They don't seem to make a lot
> of sense to me, but that opinion probably serves more to flaunt my
> naivete than anything else.
>
> Best,
> Trip
>
> --
> Trip Kirkpatrick
> Interim Manager, Technology and Project Development
> Center for Language Study
>
> e: [log in to unmask]
> w: http://www.cls.yale.edu/
>
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>
> Any opinions expressed here are mine alone. If Yale wanted my opinion,
> they'd tell me what it was.
>
> (2)    from   [log in to unmask]
>
> David,
> At the University of Regina, there used to be lab fees, but these
> were   discontinued in the late 90s (prior to my arrival).  I believe
> part of   the issue was that the university charged these fees, but
> they were   not distributed as they should have been.
>
> Good luck,
> Deanne
>
> (3)  from  [log in to unmask]
>
> Here at the University of North Texas every student who takes a
> foreign language class pays a lab fee. It covers all the Lab expenses
> except my salary-and I'm the only salaried employee. The Lab gets all
> the money and I have complete control. I add up all our expenses,
> including our depreciation schedule, and then divide it by the number
> of students we expect to enroll for the year. Right now our semester
> fee is $8.24-but we had almost 8000 students enrolled fiscal 2007-08.
> Email me if you'd like more information.
>
>
> Susan Gehrlein
> University of North Texas
> Director, Foreign Language Learning Center
> Denton, TX 76203
> 940-565-2585



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