Season Pass/Individual Fee vs. Team Fee

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I am a GA for Intramurals at my current institution, and I was curious to see if any other schools have used a flat fee for participants to play in all of intramurals as opposed to a team fee for each team that signs up.

I am curious, as we have had roughly 650 total teams sign up, with 2700 participants overall. If the team fee is $30, and the potential participant fee was $10, we would generate more revenue for our program (this is not the objective of our program by any means). Also, students could potentially be encouraged to participate in more sports as they have already paid.

Any thoughts? Has anyone done this type of payment structure?

Hello,

Although many of our hands are forced from upper administration to create revenue generation, I would reflect how individual fees may affect those from lower-socioeconomic means. Whereas a team fee can be absorbed by having more members on the team, individual fees may create barriers to participation that may not have been as daunting previously. If you think $10 per student is not a lot, then visit with your office of institutional research to understand your student population in aggregate. You may be surprised what you find. How does this align with our value of inclusion?

If one has a choice to increase student fees tied to tuition, this may be a better course forward as often financial aid can provide students with financial assistance. Once on campus if we start charging students, then that can have a much larger impact for who participates and who doesn't.

Again, this all is moot if we don't have a choice (and many of us don't).

Best,
-Jason