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Through the annual budget cycle Dearborn campus units receive general fund resources to  support educational costs including faculty & staff salaries, student services, infrastructure  costs, information technology costs, library costs, and other activities which directly support  instructional activities on campus. These resources are generated through the assessment of  mandatory tuition, course premiums, and fees as approved by the University of Michigan  Regents and paid by students enrolled at the Dearborn campus. 

There are times, however, when there are extraordinary costs associated with delivering  instruction or offering specific educational experiences which arise and generate costs above  and beyond those funded by mandatory tuition or course premiums. The purpose of this  policy is to explain how these extraordinary costs may arise, how they should be addressed,  and to provide transparency to students, as well as the campus community, about how these  costs are calculated and approved on the University of Michigan-Dearborn campus. 

Academic Units with new extraordinary costs, that is, costs beyond those funded by  man