CBFRC Summary: April 26, 2019

Present: Eileen Daniel, Peter Dowe, Samuel Druzbik, Kathy Groves, Crystal Hallenbeck, Teresa Major, Karen Riotto, Rongkun Shen, Jim Zollweg and Melissa Wight

Regrets: Libby Caruso, Dawn Footer and Craig Ross

Announcements

Ms. Riotto and Ms. Hallenbeck stated that the course fees and Credit-By-Exam fee were approved by President’s Cabinet on Wednesday, April 24, 2019. The next step is approval from SUNY. These fee requests will be submitted in the next few days as the deadline for submission is May 1, 2019.

Assessment of Campus-Based Fee Policy Rewrite

Committee Members reviewed the policy rewrite and discussed the following corrections:

• In section III, remove the “a” in front of “optional student charges” in the first sentence.
• In number 3 in Section II, change “complaints” to “comments”.
• In section II, change the first word of “bi-annual” to “bi-annually” to match the “annually” in section I.
• In section III add a period to the end of the sentence in number one.

Dr. Zollweg will make the corrections and send the finalized document to Ms. Riotto. Ms. Riotto will submit the policy to Ms. Smith to be placed on the President Cabinet’s agenda for review and approval.

2017-18 Open Items

Ms. Riotto discussed with the committee the information she has obtained regarding the utilization of ‘Double Technology Fee’ for Online and Hybrid Programs. Mr. Cushman stated the additional funding has been used to add services to Blackboard. With the increase of online programs and courses, the department is researching for a 24/7 365 platform that will guarantee students have access when and where they log in. This model will be more expensive than the current one we are using and the funding will be depleted to cover the expense. Concern was raised that the online students are paying more for a service that will benefit all students, but this service is needed to ensure that the online students have the access they need. Dr. Daniel asked if SUNY Oswego could be contacted to see what their fee structure looks like as they are a comprehensive that has also embraced online learning. Ms. Riotto stated she would contact them.

2018-19 Items

Ms. Riotto and Ms. Hallenbeck will be consulting with our Western New York peers this summer and bring to the committee in the fall, a possible different approach and timeline for how the fee based budgets are reviewed and approved.

2018-19 Year End Report

Ms. Riotto will be creating the 2018-19 Year End Report. This report will follow the same format as the fall report. Once completed, the report will be sent out to committee members for review.

2019-20 Committee Year Planning

• Dr. Houston-Wilson has been elected as the new College Senate President-Elect. She will
  replace Dr. Zollweg as a Co-Chair for the committee next year.
• In the fall, the committee will be completing the bi-annual review of fees. This will entail
  more of a time commitment than this last fall.
• Members agreed that the current day and time was still feasible to meet next year.
• Members discussed the following items of focus for next year:
  
  • An in-depth review of the Athletics’ Fee. This will be conducted within the bi-annual
    review.
  • What health services the fully online students are receiving. This will be conducted within the bi-annual review.
  • Per a past request from the Provost, review course fee budgets that are building a budget and not spending all of the funds.
  • Legislation has passed giving community colleges the ability to discount tuition to high schools. There is a work group being developed to determine what our next steps will be.

Items from the Committee

Next Meeting: Friday, September 6, 2019, 8:30-9:30am, 185 Seymour

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Campus Based Fee Review Committee Action Plan List

Committee Members: Libby Caruso/Eileen Daniel/Peter Dowe/Dawn Footer/Kathy Groves/Crystal Hallenbeck/Teresa Major/Karen Riotto/Craig Ross/Rongkun Shen