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Wednesday, August 19, 1992
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
New fee payment viewed as success
Bv KC Trauer
Kansan staff writer
For an extra 29 cents and a trip to a mailbox, most KU students avoided waiting in lines to pay for the fall semester's tuition and fees
Mail-in fee payment debuted this year with few problems and widespread participation, said Richard Morrell, university regis
About 17,510 students, or 77 percent of all students on the Lawrence campus who enrolled before Thursday, sent in their payments by Aug. 3. Several hundred more students mailed in fee payments than went through the old payment process last year, Morrell said.
Some 4,040 students,paid at least $100 to save their enrollment, he said. They will pay fees through the old process today and toromorrow. New graduate students and undergraduates enrolling this week will pay Friday.
Fewer students missed fee payment than last year. Morrall said 1,327 people, 31 fewer than last year, had their enrollments dropped. That accounts for 5.8 percent of all those enrolled, which is slightly lower than the average during recent years.
"The bottom line is fee payment by mail has had a better response than the other process," Morrell said.
Many students like the new process, including Jeff Stadler, Lecompton senior, who has been through eight fee payments.
"I think it's going to make it easier." Stadler said. "I didn't have to
Lauren Goldman, Englewood,
Colo. sophomore, said the new
way was more convenient.
come trekking all over campus for a morning. I preferred it this way."
Goldman has been in Lawrence during the past week for sorority rush and said the new process has made fee payment easier for sorority members and rushees.
"For rushees, most of them are so worried about rush, and fee payment is just another burden they have," she said. "It used to take a whole day out of the rush schedule. Now we can just get it over with."
"The university operators have a better idea where students are, which is good because students are usually trying to find other students now," he said.
Morrell said mail-in fee payment had advantages other than
convenience, including having students' updated addresses two weeks earlier than normal.
"Also, we have better information on who will really be here or who won't." Morrell said. "Now, we know this two weeks before school starts instead of when school is just starting. We have 1,327 class schedules to give other students. We have had two extra weeks to reshuffle class offerings."
A few students had payments caught up in the mail, Morrell said.
"We did have a handful of cases where the payment was sent and we did not receive the payment
from the post office until after the deadline, and those students were not at fault, so we reinstated them," he said.
Also, students set to receive Stafford loans, about 3,700 when the bills were mailed, had to pay with their own money, said Linda Mullens, assistant vice chancellor for student affairs and a member of the committee that organized the mail-in fee payment.
Because Stafford loans are disbursed by lenders outside the university, the loans could not be credited to the students' bill. Mullens said the committee would try to include Stafford loans during the next payment period.
"We don't consider the system perfect," said Morrell, also a member of the committee. "We'll continue to meet and improve the system."
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