Fees Campaign

Fees are an underhanded way to get around the full tuition waiver that our contract guarantees to all Graduate Assistants. The University cannot charge us tuition, so they charge us fees instead. The same argument has been made by the Florida Board of Governors, the body that oversees the operations of the State University system. Fees also force employees to “pay to work,” which is especially true of GAs who are no longer taking classes, but only working on their dissertation.

To make matters worse, there is very little transparency about how the fees are used by UF. The University itemizes fees to an extent, but it is unclear how the collected money is actually spent. The correlation between fee increases and budget cuts would seem to indicate that fees aren’t really spent on what UF claims they are spent on, but are simply used as a revenue stream to make up for lost state funds. GAU has tried to persuade UF to be transparent about how fees are spent, but has been unsuccessful so far.

Please fill out a short Fee Survey to help the GAU in its endeavor to end fees. It will take approximately two minutes. Thanks!

More detailed information on the fee’s campaign:

• Fees Breakdown
• Unexplained Fee Increases
• Past Fee Victories
• Fees at Other Universities
• Fees Campaign Events