Student Technology Fee
UW students and administration supported a successful legislative effort in 1995-96 to enable the establishment of a Student Technology Fee "exclusively for technology resources for general student use." The statute (RCW 28b.15.051) allows the University to establish the fee, upon the agreement of student government.
Unlike tuition, the Student Technology Fee is directed by statute to be spent only on technology for students. At the same time, state law directs that the annual expenditure plans for the fee be approved by students rather than by the administration or the Board of Regents.
A Student Technology Fee Committee is charged with making the decision on what projects will be funded out of this fee. All of the voting members of this committee are students drawn from members of the ASUW Board of Control, members of the Graduate and Professional Student Senate, and from the student governments at UW Bothell and UW Tacoma. Non-voting advisory members include representation from Undergraduate Education, the Graduate School, the University Advisory Committee on Academic Technology, and UW Technology.
The fee of $41 per quarter for a full-time student, was implemented beginning Autumn Quarter, 1996. The fee is pro-rated for part-time students, according to the same calculations as tuition. This means, for example, that an undergraduate student taking 5 credits will pay a $20.50 technology fee.
Any comments, suggestions, or questions you have about this fee can be directed to the Technology Fee Committee at techfee@u.washington.edu
