AFRC Procedures
Student Services Fee Definition
Board of Regents Policy: Tuition and Fees
Administrative Policy: Student Services Fee
The Student Services Fee (SSF) funds services and activities that enhance the student experience for the student body as a whole. SSF-funded programs and facilities foster a sense of community among students, support their health and wellbeing, provide them with engagement opportunities, and assist them with many challenges. The University recognizes that its educational mission is best served when students have the means and opportunity to engage in dynamic discussions and activities around a series of diverse topics both inside and outside of the classroom.
The Student Services Fee is assessed each term. The fee is mandatory for all students enrolled in a degree program and registered for six or more credits per semester or three or more credits per summer session. Students are charged the SSF to create “common goods” that are available to students who pay the fee. The SSF is not based on actual usage of services by an individual student or an individual student’s ability to access or interest in accessing a specific one of the array of SSF-funded services. Students who are not automatically assessed the SSF may have the option of paying the full fee if they wish to access the fee-related services. Post-secondary education option (PSEO), concurrent high school enrollment, Senior Citizen Education and the Regents Tuition Benefits students are not automatically assessed and may not opt in to the Student Services Fee.