[Vision2020] University to charge 2.5 percent fee to credit cards charges

[Donovan Arnold]

J,

UI has lost undergraduate enrollment. The UI lost 200
undergraduate students. Increases in graduate student
enrollment have made up some of those lost
undergraduates. However, most graduate students live
off campus so they do not charge boarding and housing
costs on their credit cards at UI. The 2004, 2005, and
2006 enrollments are down for undergraduates. Who
cares if they were up 8 years ago or 80 years ago.
What matters is now and the future. 


Second, I also never said that UI got the 10% charge.
My complaint is that students still have to pay the
cost, increases in the cost, interest on the cost, the
additional 2.5%, and the additional interest on the
2.5%. That makes college less affordable which means
less people can go to college. 

Third, how are 18-year-old students that do not have
$50,000 in their piggy banks so suppose to afford
funding a four year degree? 

The budget cuts have nothing to do with the lack of
students. Most colleges are facing cuts. 

Finally, the University does have a responsibility to
keep college costs affordable. Everyone in the state
pays for the University so it should be open to
everyone capable of taking the courses not just the
rich. 

Keeping up with my grammatically incorrect 15 posts a
day,

Donovan J Arnold 

   

--- J Ford <privatejf32 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> The UI has GAINED students over the past 7/8 years
> and this will be the 
> first year that the Freshman class will actually be
> flat/to a very little 
> show of growth.  I am not sure where you get your
> figures of 200 less 
> students, but since I get my info from the UI
> itself, I tend to go with 
> that.  The lack of increase is seen to be the result
> of bad publicity, 
> budget cuts, etc.  I can't imagine that this
> summer's CC activities will do 
> the UI any good in regards to bad publicity.
> 
> Regarding 10%(+/-) interest - that is paid to the
> CREDIT CARD, and is not 
> paid to the UI.  When you charge on a card, the
> business is NOT who receives 
> the interest.  If you were trying to indicate that
> the student is just 
> adding to his budget crisis, perhaps they need to
> reconsider their "charge 
> now-pay later" attitude.  But it certainly is not
> the fault of the UI that 
> so many people are electing to go into such deep
> debt before they are even 
> 25yrs old.
> 
> 
> J  ;)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >  "Due to skyrocketing credit card use among
> students
> >for student fees, room and board and tuition costs,
> >the University of Idaho Student Accounts and
> Cashiers
> >Office has added a 2.5 percent fee to all payments
> >made with credit cards. . ."
> >
> >http://www.argonaut.uidaho.edu/content/view/169/48/
> >
> >When is the University Administration going to
> >understand that when they raise prices it does not
> >equal more money if the students leave? UI has lost
> >over 200 undergraduate students in the last year
> with
> >all of the "hidden fees" they keep adding on. 2.5%
> may
> >not sound like a great deal, but when a student
> pays
> >all their room and board costs on a credit card
> with a
> >10%+ interest rate that is a HUGE increase on a
> tight
> >budget.
> >
> >Donovan J Arnold
> >
> >
> 
>
_________________________________________________________________
> Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger!
> Download today - it's FREE! 
>
http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/
> 
>
_____________________________________________________
>  List services made available by First Step
> Internet, 
>  serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. 
>  
>                http://www.fsr.net                   
>    
>           mailto:Vision2020 at moscow.com
>
¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
> 


		
__________________________________ 
Yahoo! Mail Mobile 
Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on your mobile phone. 
http://mobile.yahoo.com/learn/mail