Instructionally Related Activities (IRA) Fee
One of the six Category II Fees mandatorily paid by all Humboldt students
Activities eligible for IRA funding are limited to those which:
- Are discipline / departmentally-based and sponsored
- Are integrally related to its formal instructional offerings
- Are intensive, structured activities
- Reflect active rather than passive student involvement
- Are considered to be essential to a quality educational program and an
- important instructional experience
- Demonstrate skills derived from intensive coursework involvement
Evaluation Criteria used by the committee to determine funding allocations each spring:
- Educational benefits of the program
- Identification of student learning outcomes for participants
- Benefits to student community
- Number of students benefiting indirectly
- Number of students participating
- Overall cultural value to the University
- Overall educational value to the University
- Importance to the University as a whole
- Ratio of past and current student participants to the program cost
- Costs in comparison to comparable programs at Humboldt
- Willingness to attempt to generate income to help support the activity
- Appropriateness of IRA Fee support as opposed to General Fund support
- Maximization of program revenue
- Other sources of funding received by the program area
- Innovation and new ideas
- Continuity
- Cost/benefit ratio