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wednesday Aug. 23, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
Lines at Hoch Auditorium often have been long but should be shorter this year because holds were cleared during enrollment.
Fewer lines improve fee payment nightmare
by Barbara Koilmeyer Kansan staff writer
For many students at the University of Kansas, fee payment traditionally has been an ordeal.
Students used to stand in several lines and go to many places on campus to get their fee cards and clear holdings. If students had forgotten anything, they would find out after waiting, often for hours.
Most students who enrolled last spring took care of their holds before they enrolled. Enrollment permits
This fall there will be fewer required lines for some students to wait in.
were sent in the mall, which told them whether they had any holds. Students were not allowed to enroll until their holds were cleared. Those holds included parking tickets, library fines and other fees that occurred before April enrollment.
Between the time that students cleared holds in April and the start of the fall semester, some students may have obtained parking tickets. However, students who enrolled in the spring semester will not have to pay those tickets until they enroll in November. Holds will appear on their enrollment cards and students will not be allowed to enroll until they
are cleared.
Only parking fees will need to be paid individually. Most other fees will be added to tuition. One statement will be given to the student, and the full amount on the bottom will have to be paid.
Gary Thompson, director of student records, said the new system of paying fees at enrollment time would require students to take care of their holds in April and November rather than August and January.
"This August, April enrollees only problems will be unpaid housing, health services and library holds, which will be added to their tuition."
Thompson said. "Parking fines will not be enforced until this November."
Returning students, who enrolled in the spring semester, will have to get their fee cards at Hoch Auditorium and go to the Kansas Union for address correction and fee payment.
Returning students who did not enroll in April, will have to clear holds they acquired the last semester they attended before they pay their tuition fees.
Parking holds must be paid at Parking Services in Hoch Auditorium. Library fines and unpaid bills at Watkins Memorial Health Center
must be cleared at the Comprollers office in Carruth-O'Leary Hall.
A new University health rule requires freshmen to complete an immunization form and return it by October 1. These students should have received the forms in the mail before the start of school. Students who do not return their forms by October I will not be allowed to enroll in spring 1990 classes.
Wes Williams, dean of educational services, said KU was working on a few programs that would make enrollment and fee payment easier.
One proposed program is tuition billing by mail, which could be implemented within two years. The other is telephone enrollment, in which students would send their enrollment to the University by touch tone phones. Williams said telephone enrollment is still in the talking stages.
In August, students will pay their fees on each of the three fee payment days, according to the first letter of their last names.
Thompson said students must pay on their scheduled day, because each evening the enrollments of those who did not pay are canceled. He said the letter schedule is not enforced but advised to avoid long lines.