--- Forwarded Message from "Sangeetha Gopalakrishnan" <[log in to unmask]> --- >From: "Sangeetha Gopalakrishnan" <[log in to unmask]> >To: "'Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum'" <[log in to unmask]> >References: <[log in to unmask]> >In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: RE: #9053.1-3 (!) Student Lab Fees (updated) >Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 14:11:22 -0500 >Thread-Index: AcmG+F3FR576en7tQvKMU0zfj+dNrwAA5lLA At Wayne State every student enrolled in a foreign language course pays a 'course material fee' which has been called and been in existence since the "language Lab" era of the 60's and 70's. It is a 5 $ fee, and that amount has also remained unchanged since that era, and the money is moved into our Center's account every semester. We use it for expenses that benefit students directly. It is interesting to see how different this is at different Centers. Sangeetha ******************************************** Sangeetha Gopalakrishnan Director Foreign Language Technology Center Wayne State University 385 Alex Manoogian Hall 906 W. Warren Avenue Detroit, Michigan 48202, USA Email: [log in to unmask] Tel: 313-577-6391 Fax: 313-577-3041 http://www.langlab.wayne.edu ******************************************** -----Original Message----- From: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of LLTI-Editor Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 1:38 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: #9053.1-3 (!) Student Lab Fees (updated) --- Forwarded Message from LLTI-Editor --- >Date: 04 Feb 2009 13:36:00 -0500 >From: LLTI-Editor >Subject: Re: #90531-3 (!) Student Lab Fees >To: LLTI@listserv (LLTI) (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/ skype/twitter: tripst3r 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 *********************************************** LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for Language Learning (http://iallt.org/), and The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://www.languageconsortium.org/). Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) ***********************************************