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Service Fee Policy

The CTL's general fee policies are listed below. For rate cards an specific fee policies, use the links at right.

Service fees are assessed to offset the cost of providing labor, equipment, and materials for activities not directly related to the core instructional mission of the university. Three categories of service are provided by the Center for Teaching and Learning. The types of fees charged for these categories are detailed below, along with certain exceptions to the categories.

Category A Services

  • No labor fee
  • No equipment fee
  • Damaged or lost replacement fee for checked out equipment
  • Material and out-of-pocket expenses fee
  • Contracted services fee
  • (see Exceptions, at the end of this policy)

Category A Services are provided for...

  • Registrar scheduled credited classes held on the Dayton campus with assigned class time and classroom

Category B Services

  • Labor fee
  • No equipment fee
  • Off campus delivery fee
  • Damaged or lost replacement fee for checked out equipment
  • Material and out-of-pocket expenses fee
  • Contracted services fee
    (see Exceptions at, the end of this policy )

Category B Services are provided for...

  • Sponsored research projects
  • University administrative activities and meetings
  • Pre-commencement-activities
  • Commencement
  • Convocations
  • University meetings
  • Student- Union lighting grid installation and operation
  • Staff in-service training programs .
  • Non-credit, workshops, seminars, or lectures,
  • primarily for non-university participants, for which no fee is charged
  • Social activities
  • Service activities
  • Fund-raising activities
  • Department activities
  • System design services
  • Faculty in-service training programs
  • University or departmental programs intended to advise or counsel students
  • Student activities
  • Pre-College Programs
  • Class activities held outside of assigned class time or classroom (see Exceptions at, the end of this policy )

Category C Services

  • Labor fee
  • Equipment fee
  • Off campus delivery fee
  • Material and out-of-pocket expenses fee
  • Contracted services fee

Category C Services are provided for...

  • Non-university groups
  • Maintenance and repair of departmentally owned university equipment
  • Auxiliaries such as Athletics or the Nutter Center
  • Summer camps
  • Any activity for which a full or partial cost-recovery fee is charged participants
  • Equipment and System installations
    (see Exceptions at, the end of this policy )

Exceptions

  • Overtime rates apply to all categories (except scheduled classes) after hours (See Hours Schedule)
  • Sound, lighting, and video systems charges apply to all categories
  • Call backs due to client error are Category B (see callback fee)
  • Transportation requiring vehicle rental will be charged to the client
  • Multiple trips/vehicles for the same activity are billed mileage and travel time
  • External equipment and services rental charges apply to all catagories