The spring semester is rapidly approaching, which means that flowers will bloom and wallets will cry as the dreaded tuition bill approaches. Before registering for classes, it is important for students to be aware of how their tuition money is spent during the fall semester.
Here is a complete breakdown of all the fees and costs of tuition.
Approximately $1,965 of tuition goes toward standard UCCS operations, such as campus phones, Wi-Fi, food warmers in the dining halls and maintenance to the UCCS Portal. Another $3 goes toward the salaries of professors and Clyde the Mountain Lion, class resources and student support options.
The Homecoming Bonfire is an event hosted for students, by students. Around $1,000 of tuition is thrown into the fire and used as fuel. An additional $420 goes toward having local firemen on standby.
Upkeeping the Pan statue in Summit Village is not cheap. Students pay a $250 “Satyr” fee, which includes maintenance, polishing, offerings and ritual sacrifices.
Students pay a $50 “Squirrel” fee that is used to pay the squirrel trainers. This ensures the campus squirrels are not overly violent. The same cannot be said for other animals of UCCS, like those roaming around the engineering building.
Approximately $48 per semester goes toward hiring a group of highly trained elevator breakers to ensure unreliability and concerning noises. This is known as the “Elevator Destruction” fee.
Students may have noticed the frozen yogurt machine on the second floor of the University Center. This is funded by a $40 “Froyo” fee per semester. In previous years students paid a $100 stocking fee, but now that money goes toward employing giants to stomp holes in the pavement to create the potholes students adore.
Each student pays a $5 fee to enable Chancellor Sennifer Jobanet’s coffee addiction, plus a $5 fee for the name-brand oat milk she likes to keep stocked in her fridge. This is known as the “Sennifer Jobanet Loves Oat Milk Lattes” fee.
The $66 “Newspaper” fee each student pays go toward funding UCCS’ most trustworthy news source — The Scribble. This ensures articles are factual and backed with valid research.
Photo from the UCCS Photography Database.