The Student Technology Fee (STF) is assessed on each student's tuition bill each quarter. 

The Student Technology Fee is utilized to support the following four general categories of projects and initiatives: 

• Enhancing Student Access to Learning Content and Systems: As an ever-increasing amount of online learning content is available to students and as students and instructors increasingly interact with one another over the network, ubiquitous access to this networked content becomes vital to a successful learning environment.

• Supporting Innovative Pedagogy through Improvements to Campus Learning Spaces: Learning spaces must support new and innovative pedagogies that foster student engagement and success via active, participatory learning approaches. Moreover, these same learning environments must support evolving curricular delivery models that include remote presentation of materials, course capture, and course “streaming” in real-time.

• Improving and Enhancing UCR’s Learning and Collaboration Environments: Academic collaboration environments, both virtual and physical, are essential to an effective learning experience. For example, the online learning management system (LMS), referred to as "iLearn", is used to electronically facilitate campus curricular delivery, enable collaboration between students and faculty, and provide course assessment and feedback to students. Projects to enhance the iLearn environment, physical campus spaces along with other learning and collaboration spaces are routinely funded by STF.

• Supporting the Creation of Digital Content, eLearning Objects, and Blended Learning Environments: As teaching approaches evolve and technologies become available that enable additional methods of instructor/student and student/student engagement, UCR will need support for the creation and utilization of a broad suite of new digital learning content as well as systems for the deployment of this content within innovative curricular delivery models (e.g. blended learning approaches).

The Student Technology Fee Advisory Committee (STFAC) provides deliberated guidance, feedback, and recommendations to the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Provost regarding appropriate allocation of the STF funds.

Student Technology Fee Advisory Committee (STFAC) Charge:
The STFAC is charged with providing appropriate guidance, feedback and recommendations for all projects and initiatives funded via the Student Technology Fee. The Committee will specifically provide this input as follows:

• This Committee will review project justification, progress, funding and costs associated with long-term projects (as defined below) on an annual basis.
• The Committee will review and advise the CIO on the merit and priority of new project requests from campus constituents.
• The Committee will evaluate short-term projects (as defined below) funded by proceeds that are not allocated to any continuing, ongoing projects. 
• The Committee’s recommendations, advice and input will be provided to the campus CIO who will make final decisions relating to utilization of the Student Technology Fee, in collaboration with the Provost.

The Student Technology Fee Advisory Committee (STFAC) members for 2022-2023 are:

The videos below highlight two of the many projects that have benefited from STF funding.

Graduate Quantitative Methods Center (GradQuant) is dedicated to providing quantitative methods, computer programming, and digital research methods training to all UCR graduate students and postdoctoral scholars through free, individualized consultations and workshop programming.

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