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Reform Student Activities Fee

Reform Student Activities Fee

By Eric Bazail-Eimil April 28, 2020

Since 2001, Georgetown University students have paid a semesterly fee to cover the cost of student activities and to fund initiatives that benefit the entire Georgetown community. This Student Activities...

GUSA Fund Dissolved, FinApp Absorbs Resources

GUSA Fund Dissolved, FinApp Absorbs Resources

By Harrison McBride October 25, 2019

The Georgetown University Student Association Senate unanimously voted in support of a bill to dissolve the GUSA Fund, a committee that redistributed a small part of the student activities fee to clubs...

GUSA | Outdoor Education, the performing arts advisory council, Students Activities Commission and the Georgetown University Student Association executive experienced the largest budget cuts at the conclusion of the appeals process March 17.

Appeals Process Ends; Student Groups See Significant Budget Cuts

By Max Levine March 21, 2019

Student group Outdoor Education appealed for $3,800 more in funds after expressing safety concerns over training during the Georgetown University Student Association Finance and Appropriations Committee’s...

GUSA Approves Budget, Media Board Sees Cut

By Ben Goodman March 31, 2017

The Media Board’s student activities fee funding is set to decrease from $95,000 to $57,500 — a 39.5 percent cut — as approved Sunday in the Georgetown University Student Association Finance...

Space Funded For Unofficial Groups

By Andrew Wallender March 24, 2015

As part of the 2016 Georgetown University Student Association Budget approved by the senate after contentious debate Sunday evening, unrecognized student groups will receive on-campus storage space, club...

Club Sports Denied Trainers

By Carly Graf March 19, 2013

After months of advocating for an athletic training program for club sports, the Advisory Board for Club Sports requested $41,000 from GUSA, but was denied any funding at GUSA’s Feb. 24 budget summit...

GUSA Funding Plateaus

By Caroline Welch March 15, 2013

The Georgetown University Student Association Finance and Appropriations Committee released a draft budget Tuesday allocating $979,200 to on-campus student programs. Available funds shot up $19,200...

GUSA Fund May Shift Focus

By Annie Chen November 6, 2012

Two years after its founding, the GUSA Fund is rethinking its role on campus. Given changes in sources of funding for campus groups, the fund is looking to alter its mission from providing supplementary...

SAFE Proposals 101

By Mariah Byrne January 24, 2012

Voting opened yesterday on the referendum for the three proposals on how to spend the $3.4 million generated from the Student Activities Fee Endowment reform. In December 2010, the student body voted to...

SAFE Proposals Finalized

By Sam Rodman December 1, 2011

Members of the Georgetown University Student Association's Finance and Appropriations Committee finalized a proposal Wednesday that allocates funds from the Student Activities Fee Endowment to the Social...

Funding Overhaul Forces Clubs to Tackle a New System

By Jenny Rogers April 29, 2011

Funding frameworks for campus groups saw sweeping change this year, with SAFE reform more than doubling the funds available to organizations and a new Student Activities Commission bulk allocation system...

Funding Reform Sets Budget Summit Tone

By Katie Kettle March 2, 2010

At the first-ever Georgetown University Student Association Budget Summit held Sunday by the GUSA Finance and Appropriations Committee, the five advisory boards, the Georgetown Program Board and the GUSA...

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