From the Student Fee Advisory Board:
In addition to tuition, every student at UMBC pays mandatory fees that support student life on campus. These fees are broken down into six categories: Athletics, Technology, The Commons, Transportation, Auxiliary Facilities, and Student Activities.
Every year, UMBC engages students in a process to review each of these fees and assess how to increase and allocate their funding. Student input is a valuable component of the fee review process and the SGA Student Fee Advisory Board makes a formal recommendation to approve or amend each fee on behalf of students.
Below is a link to the 2016 Student Mandatory Fee Review Survey. It is an online form that explains the details of proposed fee increases and collects your input on how you feel about each fee and its related expenditures. The fee advisory board uses this data to directly advocate for fees and expenditures that students support.
It it immensely important that you take and share this survey so the largest possible percentage of students' direct feedback can be represented by the Board and its recommendations. So paw this post and share it on facebook!