You're being charged, along with your tuition, an Information Technology Fee of $236 per semester (up from $230 last year). Similar to the Facilities Fee and Student Activity Fee, it's not exactly tuition, but it comes out of your pocket if you are a Penn State student.
There's been a movement in the works, involving the Council of Commonwealth Student Governments and University Park Undergraduate Association, to develop an official mechanism for student feedback for this fee.
The University Park Undergraduate Association has now had time to react to last night's censure of President Christian Ragland. The Assembly voted 24-3-12 to reprimand the President for appointing Dustin Dove to the position of Chief of Staff without approval or confirmation by the Assembly, and after the Board of Arbitration ruled that Dove was ineligible to serve in UPUA.
How timely it was for the University Park Undergraduate Association to unanimously confirm this evening as Parliamentarian sophomore Spencer Malloy. Among his duties will be to become an expert on the UPUA constitution and bylaws, which is exactly what the organization needed in their meeting this week.
It was a busy evening for the University Park Undergraduate Association, which passed two resolutions and one policy, all by substantial margins.
Student government representatives from all 19 Commonewalth Campuses will trek up to University Park this weekend for this year's first monthly collective meeting of the Commonwealth Council of Student Governments, usually referred to as Council Weekend or Council.
President of the Council of Commonwealth Student Governments Mohamed Raouda appeared during the Open Student Forum portion of the meeting and encouraged UPUA members to attend this weekend's CCSG meeting. Raouda said that the Assembly has "so far shown amazing support to the Commonwealth."