RegardingID Archive | Lost your campus card? It will cost you

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

You need it to take tests eat, and make other purchases. So what happens when you lose your student ID card? At most colleges you pay a replacement fee. For Louisiana State University students, that amounts to $15, a figure some students don’t like. Getting a card to last the eight semesters a student attends college could be problematic for some.

“It seemed a little expensive to replace,” said one LSU student.. “I have to have it to take tests and eat.”

Yet, it’s hardly a cash cow for LSU, since it costs the university $11.49 to produce each card. The remainder of that $15 replacement fee goes into a fund for software and equipment upgrades.

Some 6,600 students contributed to that fund last year, LSU’s The Daily Reveille reported. Read more here.

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Lost your campus card? It will cost you