The InCommon Steering Committee has approved a new fee schedule for 2012, increasing fees by approximately 8%. There has been no fee increase since 2010.
“We have a number of new or improved services and initiatives we believe are important to the community to roll out in 2012,” said Jack Suess, chair of the Steering Committee and vice president of information technology and chief information officer at UMBC. “We know that institutions are under intense pressure to keep down costs but felt the benefits our community will gain from the success of these initiatives necessitate the cost increase.”
The additional resources will help to support InCommon’s roll-out of the assurance program, efforts to streamline the deployment of federated collaborations and client certificates on campus, and support such technical initiatives as improved metadata management, delegated administration, and automating the support of recommended practices.
Under the new fee schedule, annual participation fees will range from $1,180 to $3,250, an approximate increase of between 7-8%. Fees are based on Carnegie classifications for higher education participants, size of staff (FTE) for research organizations, and annual revenue for sponsored partners.
Under the new Carnegie Classification system, 10 of our campuses will see an adjustment down or up in their tier. Fees for those campuses will decrease or increase according to the appropriate re-classification.
Details are available at <http://www.incommon.org/fees.html>.