Tuition is to stay the same as UVU honors the call by Gov. Cox to halt any raises in tuition or fees; the student council also approves fee proposals to maintain all current student fees with added suggestions for the next student council.
The athletics department presented again to the student council upon their request about their financial situation and to give more detailed information on how student fees were used; the council also mentions the possibility of creating a new fee to support The Den.
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The UVUSA Student Council met Feb. 2 to hear from different department heads and vote on policy changes concerning foreign travel and digital transformation. The council also heard updates about recent events like the drag show and upcoming election information.
Officials in the White House, Senate, and House remain divided as negotiations over the U.S. debt ceiling continue; the Department of the Treasury has enacted “extraordinary measures” in order to prevent a default of the U.S. debt till early June.
During the last day of the student fee hearings, both the School of the Arts and the athletic department followed suit with other departments requesting a maintenance of their student fee for this year; a fee hike is expected in the following academic year.
Delays have impacted the UTA Frontrunner after an incident occurred early in the morning on Jan. 26 where a pedestrian was killed on the tracks between South Jordan and Draper; the incident has caused several delays going north and south.
The second day of student fee hearings saw three departments present to the UVUSA Student Council; as of now, no department has requested an increase or decrease in their student fees to keep with Governor Cox’s call for tuition to remain the same this year.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury announced that the federal government would reach its debt ceiling by Jan. 19, which has scrambled lawmakers on whether a deal can be made to raise the government’s borrowing limit.
The UVUSA Student Council has begun a series of hearings that will hear from various departments across campus about the state of their student fees; four departments presented and had asked for their fees to be maintained by the eventual council proposal.