Do you guys at UOP have any plans to stop rise of Resource Fees? My budget cannot keep up with you guys - I'd appreciate if you tell someone who's making decision that we have students who are quite a bit concerned about Resource Fees and would appreciate if some kind of limit is imposed on how much can be charged in fees...
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Just another unethical way to squeeze every last dollar they can out of students. They took away the number of classes available now increase number of students in each class, reduce faculty, increase fees. Used to be resource fees for electronic books was a way to control book costs and have books readily available to students for classes. No shipping fees or forgetting to order the books. I would think only way electronic book fees would go up would involve publisher royalty fees. But most likely just UOPhx way of finding way to squeeze out more money somewhere. Desperate measures for desperate times. This is why you will see many corporate and government programs are pulling their employees from UOPhx based on UOPhx ethical, image issues and not being able to rely on consistent costs and schedules. Competent, ethical faculty and staff are a thing of past. Image destroyed. Wonder how long their name will remain on Arizona NFL stadium? It's pathetic how long this downfall is taking.
You're kidding right, I attended UC Irvine as well as ASU. Class size was consistently over 40 students at each. Heck, some classes over 100. Any faculty complaining about class size doubling only to approach 30 students seems crazy to me.
Did you see the new mandate from the Provost about class size? In many classes they will double. An online faculty recently told me she had 39 students in her BSBA course. Whatever quality was left is now doomed, especially online. There is no way an adjunct faculty working full-time elsewhere can effectively deliver quality online or even on ground with 30 plus students.
Sorry about this - it's all the management's decision
Have to make up lost revenue somehow.
Fees are only going to go up as they try to wring every last dollar out of students. Class sizes are already increasing as faculty are cut. Do you really think fees will ever go down?