Fred, What are your target ages? Regarding rebuilding vs replacement, have you put some pianos in the "to be rebuilt" category, and all others in the "not worth rebuilding" category? Alan > From: Fred Sturm <fssturm@unm.edu> > Reply-To: "College and University Technicians <caut@ptg.org>" <caut@ptg.org> > Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 17:01:47 -0700 > To: "College and University Technicians <caut@ptg.org>" <caut@ptg.org> > Subject: Re: [CAUT] Student fees > > Answers below > --On Monday, December 13, 2004 12:34 PM -0800 Alan McCoy > <amccoy@mail.ewu.edu> wrote: > >> Hey folks, >> >> I want to make the case to the powers that be here that it would be a good >> idea to institute a student fee to fund piano maintenance and purchase. >> I'd like to hear from others who have experience with this. >> >> If you have student fees for these purposes: >> >> 1. How much is the fee? How much is allocated for piano maintenance? Piano >> purchases? > > $5 per credit hour, not specifically allocated (though there is a general > plan attached) >> >> 2. Who pays the fee? Music majors only? Minors too? Ed majors? >> > All classes offered by the music department are assessed this fee. > We started from a premise of needing $X per year to replace the inventory > on an on-going basis, with a target "oldest piano" age (one for uprights, > another for grands). I added to that a budget for rebuilding, and one for > contracting out some of the tuning. We then calculated the number of > "contact hours" generated by the music department, and came up with a fee > that would produce the required amount of money. > In fact, to date all money has gone to buy new pianos (I really, really > want to retire the loan program, and the chair wants to keep the students > happy by showing them where the money has gone in a visible way), but that > will change in another year or so. > A good bit of impetus was given this proposal by our recent NASM > evaluation, which identified the piano inventory as a deficiency (I wrote > that part of the department self-evaluation). This made it easier for the > chair to get permission from the higher ups from provost office through > regents to institute the fee. > I'll also note that out College of Fine Arts instituted a "technology fee" > to pay for computers and tech assistance a few years back. So we had > precedents in place. I'll also note that many instances of lobbying for > funds, over the 18 years I've been here, resulted in absolutely nothing > from upper administration. I think it might have been possible to get a one > time allocation in maybe another 10 years: it would have been an > emergency!!! But then we'd be back to the same old problem. Much better to > have an annual budget that WE control. >> >> Do you have any advice for me as I put my case together? What other >> questions should I be researching? >> >> Thanks. >> >> Alan >> _______________________________________________ >> caut list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > > > Regards, > Fred Sturm > University of New Mexico > _______________________________________________ > caut list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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