Student Government will conduct an online survey on Friday and Saturday to help gather student reactions regarding University fees.

“This survey, known as the Fee Services Satisfaction Survey, will help us to measure the student level of satisfaction against the current fee increase,” said Stephen Kouba, Student Senate president. “We mainly aim to judge the level of satisfaction among the students.”

Until last year, if a department requested a fee increase, the survey was done on a fixed basis.

“We used to ask the students if they wanted the full fee increase, half fee increase or no increase at all,” said Kouba. “For example, if the Student Health Center requested to increase the fees by $10, then our questions to the students were: Do you want $10 increase, $5 increase or no increase at all?

“But now, we are planning to take all the student recommendations and use those to offer a comprehensive plan to the University fee committee,” Kouba said.

Patrick Devore, chair of the Student Senate Tuition and Fees Committee, said this survey mainly aims at tuition, as well as the fee increases pertaining to: athletics, transportation, student centers operations, student health services, student legal services and campus recreation services.

“There will be approximately three questions per department, which will generally ask for students opinions on the fee increase. They will be yes-no type questions and no long answers,” Devore said.

“The survey will be held from Friday at 12:01 a.m. until Saturday at 11:59 p.m. this week,” Kouba said.

The survey is available for all students at http://vote.ncsu.edu.

Kouba said that after the survey closes, recommendations will be made to the University Fee Committee based on the student survey responses.

Kouba urged all the students to vote during the survey period.

“Please do vote. Students will be able to express their concerns through this survey. The more students vote, the more data we can gather, and a better recommendation can be formulated from this,” he said.

Kanak Lagu, first year master’s student in computer science, said that the voting system will really help, especially for international students.

“I personally think having such a voting campaign is a great opportunity for international students like me,” said Lagu. “We have to pay quite a lot for tuition and other fees, so we get a good opportunity to express our opinions through such voting and have the guarantee that our concerns will be heard.”