Materials and Supplies Form

The state statute permitting materials and supplies fees specifies that these fees are “to offset the cost of materials or supplies that are consumed in the course of the student’s instructional activities, excluding the cost of equipment replacement, repairs, or maintenance.” (1009.24 {14}{i})

To administer such materials and supplies fees that are approved by the faculty, the following policies are in effect:

1. All requests for additions, changes, or deletions shall be submitted to the appropriate Senate Committee by the specified fall semester date of the year prior to which the fees intend to be implemented.
2. Fee requests for new courses will be submitted by the appropriate dean to the Undergraduate Course Review Committee as part of the New Course Request procedure.
3. Fee requests for existing courses will be submitted by the appropriate dean to the Undergraduate Course Review Committee, which makes recommendations to the provost.
4. All fee requests will be forwarded to the provost for acceptance or rejection.
5. After the provost’s approval, fees will be published in the next academic year’s Undergraduate Catalog.
6. All fee changes will go into effect the Fall semester of the year for which the fee is approved.
7. The same fee will be charged for each semester: Fall, Spring and Summer.
8. Fees will be in effect until any change in the justification for the fee, initiating a request from the unit for an addition or subtraction from the fee.
9. Notice of the provost’s approval of fee requests will be sent to the department, college registrar, Student Accounts office and Division of Finance and Accounting.
10. The Office of Undergraduate Studies will maintain the listings of materials and supplies fees.