New fee to designate $5M to Fresno State Athletics

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Beginning this fall, the instructionally related activities interest for Fresno State students volition summation from $628 to $1,123.

It's the archetypal clip the assemblage has raised the interest successful 16 years.

The summation is projected to bring successful much than $11.3 cardinal to the university. What's getting criticized is the $5 cardinal that volition beryllium designated to the athletics department.

That full outpaces 2nd second-place holder by much than 2 and a fractional times and is 43% of the full increase.

The determination comes arsenic the assemblage prepares to determination into the PAC-12 adjacent year.

Students accidental they don't judge the wealth is being distributed properly.

“It's disheartening successful a sense, it's pugnacious you wanna enactment your school,l but astatine the aforesaid clip it's hard to wage those fees that spell straight towards them,” said Guadalupe Zamudo Telles.

“Fresno State does not person a wealth problem, it has a wealth absorption problem,” said Matthew Casarez.

Phong Yang is the Interim Vice President of Student Affairs and says the alteration was not made lightly.

"In bid for america to supply the aforesaid prime of work to much students than 16 years ago, but determination is nary mode astir it, we inactive wanna beryllium the flagship and the premier university," said Yang.