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>Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 08:38:35 -0400
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>From: Roberto Perez <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: #9162 lab fees
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At 07:56 PM 6/1/2009, Sangeetha Gopalakrishnan wrote:
>[...]
>One idea is about increasing our lab fees, and I am getting to work on it
>right away. Past attempts to increase it at my institution have been in
>vain, and would like to make one more attempt (thanks to Claire Bartlett for
>asking me not to give up). At the conference, some of you told me that your
>lab fees were $50, or $75.00, or so. [...]



As I heard some of the conversations about lab fees, I realized that 
we don't charge language students a lab fee. Other labs on campus 
(e.g., chemistry, photography, etc) do have fees, but using the lab 
is part of the students' weekly activities, and lab attendance is 
mandatory as per their syllabi.

In the case of those institutions where a lab fee is in place for the 
language lab...is attendance to the lab mandatory? Is it an integral 
part of the syllabus?

I was thinking that, if the lab is just available for extra work or 
remedial work on a self-access basis, or if the lab is integrated in 
the syllabus for some classes but not others, we couldn't really 
charge a lab fee, because not all students would make equal use of 
those facilities.

Any comments on the subject of reasons/justifications to charge a fee 
will be welcome.

Regards,

Roberto Perez Galluccio, PhD
Director,
Foreign Language Technology Center
Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester, NY



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