From: Holley Schramski (hschrams@arches.uga.edu)
Date: Fri Jan 14 2000 - 13:47:35 EST
Hello Kimberley and Bursar-l:
Despite the rush of the start of Spring Semester, we at UGA have had a short
meeting to discuss a response to the recent CIPRIS regulation. While our
letter
has not yet been sent, we are going to incorporate the following ideas.
Issues to be presented:
Institutional role as fee collector
1) Fee collection on behalf of a federal government agency is an
inappropriate role for institutions of higher education and compromises
our mission as it relates to international exchange of students and
scholars
2) Fee collection by UGA would be costly to our institution and divert
funds from the academic program of the institution to support collection
and monitoring.
--developing a system, alone, to collect, remit and monitor will be
complicated, inefficient, costly, and as a result burdensome, given the
diversity of our programs and activities (landgrant institution) and
participation of foreign nationals in these programs.
3) The proposed system will have an adverse effect on our exchange
programs, because of monitoring and enforcement requirements.
Additional topics to be included in the discussion are:
frequency of fee payment
method
who must pay
consequences to students and scholars for non-payment or late payment.
IF WE THOUGHT TRA'97 WAS A LOT OF WORK, HERE WE GO AGAIN! I'm not usually a
negative person but the more my institution thinks through the impact, the
more
negative we all become.
We encourage all institutions to respond to this legislation. If your school
has representation in Washington, please get them involved. THANK YOU
KIMBERLEY
FOR GETTING THE BALL ROLLING!
For additional info, please refer to:
http://www.nafsa.org/cipris/
http://www.nacubo.org/website/members/issues/bulletins/index.html#010500c
The NACUBO reference states:
NACUBO urges its members to review the Federal Register notice and submit
comments to the INS. The deadline for
comments is February 22. Given the statutory language, a legislative fix
may be
necessary to resolve the problem.
Institutions may want to send a copy of their letters to INS to their
congressional representatives. NACUBO would also
appreciate receiving copies of comment letters which may be sent to the
attention of Mary Bachinger by E-mail at
mbachinger@nacubo.org or by fax at 202-861-2583.
Kercheval, Kimberley A. wrote:
> Good Afternoon Everyone,
>
> Now that we have all our 1098-Ts out of the way for this year, students are
> enrolled and paid for the semester, and we have nothing else to do (RIGHT!),
> I would like to get some reactions to the proposed CIPRIS fee.
>
> You must have heard/read about the proposed $95 which the institutions will
> be required to collect from internationals of certain visa types at certain
> stated junctures in their educational careers - enter an institution, enter
> a new program, transfer to another institution, etc. We would then be
> responsible for forwarding payment for these people to the INS. Failure on
> the student's part to pay results in awful consequences, as does failure on
> the institution's part to collect and remit. There are several onerous
> issues on this one....(not to mention the one that says after approval it
> would be retroactive to August, 1999!)
>
> Thought I would ask you how your institutions are responding to this
> proposed fee - writing campaigns, etc. Has anyone given any thought to the
> logistics, costs involved?
>
> Any and all feedback welcome with many thanks,
>
> Kim
>
> Kimberley A. Kercheval
> Associate Bursar
> Indiana University
> Office of the Bursar E-mail: kkerchev@indiana.edu
> Bloomington, IN 47405 Telephone: (812)855-7749
> FAX: (812) 855-7535
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