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Berkeley College officially dropped the mandatory online resource fee. This win belongs to every student who pushed back against these costs. Check your account balances to ensure the charges are removed and report any discrepancies to the bursar immediately.

January 2, 2012

Petition for being charged for Online Class Resources

Petition for being charged for Online Class Resources

🏆 Won — 102 supporters Verified

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Started by Anonymous 15 years ago
This is a petition against Berkeley College to charge and extra $75 per online class. That means for a full-time student taking 4 online classes it will cost them an extra $300 per semester and for a part time student taking 2 classes it will cost an extra $150 per semester.That means Berkeley will get an extra $1200 for a full time student per year and $600 per year for a part time student for a year. As students we should have a choice where to get our books. Some students need to have books in front of them in order to finish assignments and papers.It would be hard to see the materials and answer questions if it is on the same page. That would mean we(students) then need to invest in a printer and ink to print out information making it more costly for students and bad for the environment. This is purely to get more money from students and in this economy it isn't right. So many of us are on financial aid and with the government cuts we are getting less money then before. If you feel the same and agree with the petition then please fill this out so we as students can voice our opinions. Please forward it to everyone. You can email this link to all students by going to Blackboard, click on you course, then click course tools, then click on send email, and then finally click on all student users and paste the link so everyone will see the petition. We need to get as many signatures as possible. Please do this for all classes. Thanks.

Updates

November 10, 2011

I have been hearing from dozens of you about the financial strain these extra fees place on your semester budget. Log into Blackboard right now to email this link to all users in your courses so we can show the administration that this impact is widespread. If they refuse to acknowledge our frustration we will continue to organize and push until this policy changes.

November 10, 2011

We hit our first major momentum shift and it shows that the administration cannot ignore our collective frustration. Open your Blackboard courses right now and email this link to every student user in your classes to keep the pressure mounting.

Reached 100 supporters

November 10, 2011

6 Comments

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Sarah Cole
14 years ago Featured

so tired of these extra fees. i cant afford to print out all these pdfs and buying ink is way too expensive right now.

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Marcus Townsend
14 years ago Featured

Ridiculous. They know we are struggling with financial aid but they keep adding costs anyway.

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Kevin Hill
15 years ago Featured

This is nothing but a money grab. We already pay enough for tuition it is absolutely ridiculous.

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David Townsend
15 years ago Featured

Stop nickel and diming us. We are students not piggy banks.

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Jessica Perry
15 years ago Featured

i need physical books to study properly. staring at a screen for hours makes my head hurt and i cant focus. let us choose our own materials!

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Emily Olsen
15 years ago Featured

My financial aid is already low enough. This is really unfair to people working jobs and trying to finish school.