UCSC SFAC · Subcommittee
Audit Subcommittee
A standing subcommittee of the UCSC Student Fee Advisory Committee responsible for finding information about, and writing reports on, student fees within its chartered scope.
Charter
Responsible for looking into policy violations within the SSF, M7, and Campus Based Fee Referenda. Find information about these fees and current usage. Write reports and recommendations based on these findings and present to relevant UCSC and UC Office of the President administration. Develop policy SSF, M7, and Campus Based Fee Referenda.
Charter language reproduced as adopted; “develop policy” here means recommend, not enact. The subcommittee makes recommendations to the full SFAC and to UCSC administration; it does not set university policy.
Time commitment: at least 1.5 hours a week, with additional time during active audit projects.
Scope
Within charter
- Student Services Fee (SSF)
- Measure 7 (M7)
- All Campus-Based Fee Referenda
Outside charter (shown for context)
- Tuition (set by UC Regents)
- UC SHIP Health Insurance
- Nonresident Supplemental Tuition
- Records Management Fee
Fee Transparency Project
slugfees.org is the Audit Subcommittee's public deliverable under our charter. It publishes:
- An interactive view of every fee on a UCSC bill, with the Audit Subcommittee's in-scope fees marked distinctly from out-of-charter context.
- Voting patterns across every Campus-Based Fee Referendum: turnout and yes-share over decades, with the 1994 quorum-failure annotation and historical rule-change footnote.
- A research instrument for student fee priorities: input from students that informs our reports and recommendations.
- A searchable mirror of public-record SFAC meeting minutes.
- Audit Subcommittee reports as they are produced.
Modeled on UC Berkeley's precedent: the official csf.berkeley.edu Resources page lists the student-run berkeleyfee.org as a Student Fee Data Visualization companion.
Data sources
- Fee amounts: the UCSC Registrar's published rates. Last reviewed May 2026.
- Ballot measure history: the UCSC Dean of Students elections archive, supplemented by UCSC Special Collections for older referenda. Detailed vote tallies for several pre-1999 measures remain undigitized; these are excluded from the trend charts and noted as such.
- Meeting minutes: mirrored from the public record at sfac.ucsc.edu as a research index for the Audit Subcommittee's work.
- Passage rules: documented at the top of the trend charts; rules have changed over time (simple majority pre-2015, two-thirds with 25% undergraduate quorum since 2015).
Maintenance & succession
The site is maintained by the chair of the SFAC Audit Subcommittee. The maintainer role is tied to the subcommittee chair seat, not to any individual student, so the project survives committee turnover.
Errors and omissions are the Audit Subcommittee's. For official campus information, refer to ucsc.edu, the UCSC Registrar, and Financial Aid & Scholarships.
Contact
Questions, corrections, or feedback: [email protected] (Audit Subcommittee Chair).
The official UCSC SFAC website (including current committee composition and meeting schedule) is at sfac.ucsc.edu.