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Student Choice Initiative.
The Student Choice Initiative (SCI) is the provincial mandate forcing universities to give an opt-out option for certain ancillary fees to students.

What does this mean?
Most of AVSSU's society fee is being deemed "non-essential", and this means that the funds that we use to host events such as our annual Formal, Orientation, Destressor Weeks, Studio Brunch/Dinners, Portfolio Review Sessions, and Design Challenges, will no longer be enough. 

What can you do?
Contribute to our AVSSU Society Fee, because YOUR student life is being affected. Choose to OPT-IN to our society fees, because our student life depends on each and every one of you!


AVSSU Society Fee Breakdown.
MANDATORY FEES
Academic Support   |  Full-Time: $2.00 , Part-Time: $ 1.00 
This allows for us to provide more resources for the following but not limited to: portfolio review sessions, grad school info sessions, career networking opportunities, City Building Expo, and design challenges.

Health & Counselling | Full-Time: $2.50 , Part-Time: $1.25
AVSSU wishes to provide better support for all our students whether this is hiring more staff members to be available at all times for counselling in our Daniels building, providing studio brunches/dinners, keeping our Destressor Weeks, keeping our snacks and coffee cubby full, and most importantly making sure that we are living a healthy studio culture.

Mandatory Total
Full-Time: $ 4.50, Part-Time: $ 2.25

OPTIONAL FEES
AVSSU Clubs Levy | Full-Time: $5.00 , Part-Time: $2.50
The AVSSU Clubs Levy funds our co-curricular initiatives of subcommittees such as VSSP: Visual Studies Student Projects, AALD: Applied Architecture Landscape and Design, and Daniels Mentorship, to provide more outreach on campus and provide more opportunities to its members.

Shift Magazine Levy | Full-Time: $1.00 , Part-Time: $ 0.50
SHIFT Magazine is our official publication for the Architecture and Visual Studies Student Body. They publish articles, interviews, reviews, and original artwork created by students of our Daniels community. With this Levy, SHIFT is able to provide more opportunities for our students and increase the scale of publication and host events to showcase undergraduate work as well. 

Social Events | Full-Time: $2.50 , Part-Time: $1.25
This fee helps to subsidize for any of our social events such as our annual formal, club/pub nights, Destressor Week, and movie night. Without this, AVSSU will not have enough funds for our events.

Studio Space Upkeep | Full-Time: $3.00 , Part-Time: $1.50
This fee allows for our studio space to be more homely and functional. This would include upgrades or buying new furniture for our studio, to have model storage spaces, better worktables, and even having a larger collection of board games available.

Optional Total
​Full-Time $ 11.50 , Part-Time: $ 5.75

If you choose to OPT-IN we can continue to provide our support and run our events like usual!

Please contact any members of our executive team if you have any questions and want to reach out! 
​You can find our contact info here!