Incidental Fees |
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These are fees which are charged to ALL undergraduate students and are required for ALL Full-time and Part-time students.
Comprehensive Student Services Fee
Student Administration Council Fee
Student Union Building Fee-Waterloo Campus
Student Center Building Fee-Brantford Campus
Enhancement of Student Life Levy
Food Service Facility Fee-Brantford Campus
Detailed Breakdown of Incidental Fees
Comprehensive Student Services Fee
Cost: $30.15 per 0.5 credit to a Maximum Fee of $150.75 per term
- This fee is from an agreement in which students contribute 50% of the cost of Student Services on campus and in turn receive 50% control in voting on all major items relating to it. Services covered by this fee include:
• the Office of the Assistant Vice-President: Student Services
• the Office of the Dean of Students and Associate Dean of Students
• Student Awards
• Health, Counseling and Career Services
• Athletics and Recreation (including a contribution to the major capital improvement to the AC)
• International Student Advisor
• Special Needs Students
• Chaplains Discover Laurier
• Off-Campus Housing
• (Housing, Food and Conference services are in the agreement but the fee doesn’t support it.)
NOTE: This fee is not levied by the Wilfrid Laurier University Students’ Union. This fee applies to both Waterloo and Brantford Campus Students.
Student Administration Council Fee
Cost: $7.92 per 0.5 credit to a Maximum Fee of $29.92 per term.
- This fee provides support to the Operations of the Students’ Union, all of its student representation, services, programs and volunteer opportunities which we offer. This includes committees such as the Emergency Response Team (ERT), Foot Patrol, Activities Team, Laurier Students for Literacy and much more. This fee also provides support for membership to the Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance and the Canadian Alliance of Student Associations.
NOTE: This fee applies to both Waterloo and Brantford Campus Students. This fee is levied by the Wilfrid Laurier University Students’ Union.
Student Publication Fee
Cost: $1.66 per 0.5 credit to a Maximum Fee of $6.64 per term
- This fee is to cover all the operating costs, including staffing, printing and office expenses for Wilfrid Laurier Student Publications (WLUSP).
NOTE: This fee is not levied by the Wilfrid Laurier University Students’ Union but by Wilfrid Laurier University Student Publications (WLUSP). This fee applies to both Waterloo and Brantford Campus Students.
Student Union Building Fee-Waterloo Campus
Cost: $6.42 per 0.5 credit to a Maximum Fee of $25.68 per term
- This fee provides support in the cost of operating and maintaining the student centre and the Fred Nichols Campus Centre, which contains Wilf’s Restaurant/Pub, the Turret Night Club, the Centre Spot convenience store, the Terrace Food Court, the Alumni (24 hour) Lounge, and the Offices within the Students’ Union.
NOTE: This fee only applies to Waterloo Campus Students only. This fee is levied by the Wilfrid Laurier University Students’ Union.
Student Center Building Fee-Brantford Campus
Cost: $9.80 per 0.5 credit to a Maximum Fee of $39.20 per term
- This fee provides support in the funding of all building related costs of the WLUSU Brantford Student Centre located at 103 Darling Street Brantford, Ontario. The main items that this fee covers are financing, maintenance and contracted services in the operation of the Student Centre.
NOTE: This fee only applies to Brantford Campus Students only. This fee is levied by the Wilfrid Laurier University Students’ Union.
Enhancement of Student Life Levy
Cost: $10.27 per 0.5 credit to a Maximum Fee of $41.08 per term
- This fee represents a contribution from the undergraduate student body to the University’s capital campaign. The total contribution to the university is in excess of $3 million and students are the largest single contributors to the campaign. In 1993, a referendum was passed by the students of WLU to approve this fee. Our contributions are designated in three specific areas:
1) Funding the 1995 expansion of the Fred Nichols Campus Centre
2) Scholarship and Bursary funds – The most significant portion of this is in the Jim Wilgar bursary fund that has been endowed so the money will always be available. A scholarship in the name of Dr. Lorna Marsden, a former president of the University, was also provided for by the WLUSU donation.
3) Increased computer and library acquisitions – thus far WLUSU has contributed to the creation and upkeep of numerous computer labs on campus. We have also provided funds each year for an on-line journal research package and a CD-ROM journal research printer.
As well WLUSU has made a major contribution to the Trellis (tri-university library search engine), and to the replacement of the University’s computer backbone. More recently, money has been committed to improve the 3rd Floor of the Students’ Union. Services and programs offered by WLUSU are now more accessible to students.
NOTE: This fee applies to both Waterloo and Brantford Campus Students. This fee is levied by the Wilfrid Laurier University Students’ Union.
Copyright Agreement Fee
Cost: $0.34 per 0.5 credit per term
- This fee is charged to both full and part-time students. This is the result of an agreement between Wilfrid Laurier University and the Canadian Reprography Collective to grant Laurier the right reproduce copyright works for the purpose of education, research and higher learning.
NOTE: This fee applies to both Waterloo and Brantford Campus Students. This fee is not levied by the Wilfrid Laurier University Students’ Union.
Faculty Based Fee
Cost: $3.75 per 0.5 credit per term to a Maximum fee of $15.00 per term
- This fee was established based on a student referendum question in 2007/2008. These fees allow the faculty based club activities and programming to provide Laurier students access to resources that will support student learning and improve their experience here at Laurier. Fee revenue is assessed and distributed within undergraduate faculties (Arts, Science, SBE, Music and Education) to provide necessary resources needed to manage and run activities and programs for the Laurier student body.
NOTE: This fee applies to both Waterloo and Brantford Campus Students. This fee is levied by the Wilfrid Laurier University Students’ Union.
Pool Improvement Fee
Cost: $2.50 per 0.5 credit per term to a Maximum fee of $10.00 per term
- This fee, passed during a referendum in 2009, results in a fee of $10 a term for all Waterloo campus undergraduate students for five years. The fee is collected by the Wilfrid Laurier University Students’ Union, and then transferred to Wilfrid Laurier University in order to finance vital repairs to the Pool for the long-term. The referendum question was:
Question: "Do you approve a new ’Pool Improvement Fee’ of $10 per semester per full-time Undergraduate student, pro-rated per course for part-time students, to finance critical repairs to the pool? This fee will commence in September 2009 for the duration of 5 years.”
Results: Students voted with over 64% favourability for the new fee
NOTE: This fee applies to Waterloo Campus Students only. This fee is levied by the Wilfrid Laurier University Students’ Union.
Sustainability Fee
Cost: $1.25 per 0.5 credit per term to a Maximum fee of $5.00 per term
- This fee, passed during a referendum in 2009 focused on increasing the Green Fee from a $0.50 fee to a $5 per term fee. This fee funds the creation and operation of an Ecological Sustainability Office. This fee is collected by the Wilfrid Laurier University Students’ Union and then distributed to Wilfrid Laurier University as an appendix to the OPA. The referendum question was:
Question: "Do you approve of replacing the current Green Fee of $0.50 per semester with an Eco Fee of $5 per semester, indexed annually to inflation, collected by the Wilfrid Laurier University Students’ Union and distributed to the Wilfrid Laurier University to fund the creation and operation of a Wilfrid Laurier University Ecological Sustainability Office?"
Results: Students voted over 65% in favour of the increased fee.
NOTE: This fee applies to both Waterloo and Brantford Campus Students. This fee is levied by the Wilfrid Laurier University Students’ Union.
Food Service Facility Fee-Brantford Campus
Cost: $3.75 per 0.5 credit per term to a Maximum fee of $15.00 per term
- This fee is to pay for the construction of the Brantford Dining Services Facility. The fee itself will be uttilized to amortize the expense for building of the dining hall in Brantford.
NOTE: This fee applies to Brantford Campus Students. This fee is levied by the Wilfrid Laurier University Students’ Union.