The Student Technology Fee is assessed at $5.00 per credit hour up to $100.00 dollars to all students registered at Northwestern State University. Students should maintain the primary decision over how the money will be spent. In order for this process to be executed, a self-sustaining committee was developed to oversee all expenditures. This committee is known as the Student Technology Advisory Team (STAT) and is a representative body of students which:

• Appoints student members to ITAC for student representation;
• Helps ensure that NSTEP promotes the technology needs of students;
• Approves the annual Student Technology Fee budget;
• Ensures that the performance of all personnel funded through the student technology is evaluated annually, or as requested by STAT in accordance with university staff evaluation guidelines;
• Adheres to the membership, charge and role defined for STAT as presented herein.

There will be a standing committee composed of eight members know as the S.T.A.T (Student Technology Advisory Team). Those composing the membership of the committee include:

        Voting:

• SGA President – Natchitoches campus (Chairman)
• SGA Treasure – Natchitoches campus (Vice-Chairman)
• SGA President – Shreveport Campus
• SGA Treasurer – Shreveport Campus
• Two students nominated by the Natchitoches Campus SGA President, and approved by the associated SGA senate
• One student nominated and approved by the Leesville Director
• One student nominated and approved by the Cenla Director

        Ex-officio members (non-voting)

• Director of Information Systems (The Director of Information Systems may act as a non-voting chair to call STAT meetings in the event that the regular STAT Chair and Vice-Chair become inactive)
• Faculty/Staff Representative from ITAC