Student Senate Budget Book
What is the Budget Book?
The Student Senate Budget Book outlines how we use the Required Campus Fees to serve campus and promote the needs of students. Revenue from the Required Campus Fees totals around $24 million. Core services include subsidized healthcare for students through Watkins Health Center and Counseling & Psychological Services; free bus services within campus and to campus through KU Transportation Services and Lawrence Transit; operation and maintenance of the Memorial Unions and the Ambler Student Recreation & Fitness Center; and much more. Our budget is set in the spring of each year for the next fiscal year, as KU fiscal years run from August to July.
Access the Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Book here.
Student Senate supports the following organizations and programs:
- KU Memorial Unions
- Watkins Health Services and Counseling & Psychological Services
- Hilltop Child Development Center
- Sexual Assault Prevention & Education Center
- KU Recreation Services (includes Ambler Student Recreation & Fitness Center)
- Educational Opportunity Fund (financial-need scholarships and student salaries)
- KU Transportation Services (includes routes within campus and several city routes that connect to campus)
- KU Recycling
- Legal Services for Students
- University Daily Kansan
- Student Engagement Center (campus cupboard, winter clothes closet, community cloths closet, pregnant and parenting resource pantry)
- Supportive Services (community non-profits for suicide prevention, domestic violence resources, and support for sexual trauma)
- Jayhawk Finances (formerly Student Money Management Services)
- KU Alternative Breaks
- KU Bands
- Center for Community Outreach
- Center for Writing & Learning Support (Wingspan)
- KU Forensics (student organization)
- Jayhawk Motor Sports (student organization)
- Lied Center of Kansas
- Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center
- KU Natural History Museum
- Office of Graduate Studies
- Spencer Museum of Art
- Sport & Exercise Psychology Club (student organization)
- Student Support & Case Management (includes the Campus Cupboard)
- Military-Affiliated Student Center
- University Dance Company
- University Theatre
Student Senate also supports a variety of student organizations every year through allocations of Line-Item Funding, which can be drawn either from our Activity Fee or Community Development Fund Fee.