San Diego State has proposed a 45% increase to the mandatory Instructionally Related Activities (IRA) fee, from $580 to $840 per year. According to The San Diego Union-Tribune’s Mark Zeigler, “The IRA fee primarily flows to the athletic department and represents the highest such student fees in the Mountain West Conference by a wide margin.” The proposed athletic budget for the current academic year projects student fees to account for $16.3M, more than any other line item. The proposed increase to the IRA fee – 95%, or $9.7M, of which would go to athletics – would grow the student contribution to $26M annually on a total budget around $90M. Zeigler: “So can SDSU students vote it down? Actually, no.”