Hopkins to charge students for CPS codes
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Summary
- This News-Letter article covers a new fee for CPS “clicker” enrollment codes and the debate over the change.
- The paper reported that the university moved from free codes to charges of $10 per semester or $35 for a lifetime code.
- The article says Steven David explained that the university wanted students who benefited from the devices to pay, similar to buying a class textbook.
- The reporter writes that sophomore Katherine Weiling Tan created a Facebook protest with nearly 200 participants and hoped to use the SGA as a platform for opposing the fees.
- The paper reported that student views varied: John Jiao called the reaction excessive, while Andi Shau cited the lack of warning and questioned the devices’ usefulness and reliability.
- According to the article, XiXi Xu said many students had already paid the $35 lifetime fee and no longer cared, while Candice Dalrymple said more than 19 faculty members were using CPS with over 2,500 students.
- The article adds that Dalrymple said the fees addressed rising costs and fairness between students, and that the shift to students paying for their own codes was permanent.