90.00 POLICY ON THE CAMPUS ASSESSMENT OF VOLUNTARY STUDENT CONTRIBUTIONS TO
STUDENT GOVERNMENTS AND REGISTERED CAMPUS ORGANIZATIONS
(Revised July 28, 2004)
90.10 Campus Procedures
In furtherance of the University's stated goal of actively
encouraging voluntary student support for the programs and activities of student
governments and Registered Campus Organizations, and consistent with the University
of California Guidelines for Implementing a Voluntary Student Fee Pledge System,
Chancellors may establish procedures permitting the use of the student registration
process or other formal campus assessment process to collect voluntary contributions
from students in support of student governments and their related programs and
activities, as well as Registered Campus Organizations and their related programs
and activities when they serve the interests of students enrolled at the University.
No program or activity of a student government or a Registered Campus Organization
may be supported by voluntary contributions collected through a formal campus
assessment process unless that program or activity is also in compliance with
all other applicable University policies and the law.
Campuses shall consult broadly with representatives of student
government in the development of such assessment and collection procedures.
Such procedures:
90.11
Shall require that any voluntary contribution assessed
through the student registration process or other formal campus assessment process
be collected only from those students who have affirmatively elected by means
of a positive check-off mechanism to authorize such an assessment;
90.12
Shall require either a student referendum (conducted under
the same criteria as for compulsory campus-based student fees as set forth in
Section 84.00 of these Policies) or, subject
to the concurrence of the Chancellor or Chancellor's designee, a duly adopted
resolution of student government, to authorize use (consistent with the University
of California Guidelines for Implementing a Voluntary Student Fee Pledge System)
of the student registration process or other formal campus assessment process
for the collection of voluntary contributions;
90.13
Shall require that the actual costs (as defined in Section
8 of the University of California Guidelines for Implementing a Voluntary Student
Fee Pledge System) of the collection of voluntary contributions to benefit
a Registered Campus Organization be borne by the Registered Campus Organization
(at the discretion of the Chancellor or Chancellor's designee, all or a part of
the actual costs of collection of voluntary contributions to benefit a student
government may or may not be required to be borne by the student government);
and
90.14
Shall require that a written disclaimer be incorporated
into the ballot measure language (or the duly adopted resolution of student government)
at the time of authorization, and into the student registration or other formal
campus assessment process at the time of collection. This disclaimer shall state
that the collection of such voluntary contributions through the University's agency
for support of the programs and activities of student governments or Registered
Campus Organizations does not constitute sponsorship or endorsement by the University
(or, in the case of the programs and activities of student governments, does not
constitute sponsorship or endorsement by any entity of the University other than
the student government).
90.20
These Policies shall apply only to voluntary contributions
collected from students as part of the student registration process or other
formal campus assessment process and shall not apply to voluntary contributions
solicited from students as part of the more general fund-raising activities
of any University or University-affiliated entity. Student governments and Registered
Campus Organizations engaged in more general fund-raising activities are subject
to all other applicable University policies relating to the fund-raising activities
of University and University-affiliated entities.
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