NEWS: Student Fee Committee Gives Student Service Fee Revenue To Athletics
(The Student Fee Advisory Committee meets on April 26 to review funding proposals.) The Student Fee Advisory Committee unanimously passed the athletics budgets within the student services fee on April 26. Unless President Calhoun objects, athletics will retains its funding from student services. The eleven-member committee met with all but one member present to approve budget requests from student services departments. Athletics Director Howard Patterson also attended but did not comment on the athletics budget during the meeting. On the question of the legality of student service money going to athletics when it is a separate service and has its own fee, and when this appears to be an exclusion given the statutory definition of a student service , Vice President for Student Success Ona Tolliver said that the university reached out to UT-System General Counsel in 2019 and received legal guidance from UT-System attorneys. While it was unclear what exactly that guidance was, Ch...