COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Students at the University of Maryland at College Park are considering imposing a $34 fee on themselves to go towards investigating sex assaults on campus.

The university’s Student Government Association approved the new $34 fee for students at its Sept. 28 meeting because “the university has failed in their responsibility to fully fund” its Title IX office, SGA vice president A.J. Pruitt told BuzzFeed.

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“By putting in a proposal to add an additional fee – that’s placing another financial burden on students,” Pruitt said. “It’s not something I’m excited about, but it gets us to fully funding the office in a short amount of time.”

Catherine Carroll, the school’s Title IX director, laid out her office’s workload and financial situation for BuzzFeed.

Carroll said her office received 243 reports of sexual misconduct in the 2015–16 school year, up from 112 reports the previous year, and has three investigators to respond to those cases. (A fourth investigator handles discrimination cases.) A survey in the spring concluded that 13.8% of women on the campus are raped by the time they graduate, on par with other universities of similar size.

Carroll told the student government her office only received $725,000 in the 2016 fiscal year. The university said that when computer supplies and employee benefits were taken into account, the full budget was $947,558. The budget for fiscal year 2017 for the office is $1.01 million, school officials said.

“The University of Maryland has funded the Title IX office since its inception,” Crystal Brown, a university spokeswoman, told Inside Higher Ed.

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“Annual budgets for this office have increased every year. Students have proposed a new fee to provide this office additional revenue, but it has not yet been voted on and [is] not yet final,” she said. “We are supportive of the Student Government Association’s proposal, which, if approved, will supplement the existing budget and is a show of support for the important mission of the Title IX office.”

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Experts told the news site that student fees to fund sex assault investigations are unheard of.

“Erin Buzuvis, an expert on Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and director of the Center for Gender and Sexuality Studies at Western New England University, said she has never heard of an institution using a student fee to cover the costs of a Title IX office,” the news site reports. “Neither has the National Center for Campus Public Safety or the Clery Center for Security on Campus.”

Carroll pointed out that the Obama administration expects colleges to resolve sex assault complaints within two months, but it’s currently taking an average of 140 days for her investigators to clear cases.

“That is not prompt,” she told Inside Higher Ed. “And when people are experiencing crisis and trauma, the last thing you need is to drag it out.”

The proposed student fee, which awaits approval from the university’s Board of Regents, is expected to rake in about $900,000 for the Title IX office, which would bring its total budget to just shy of $2 million.

Carroll told BuzzFeed the money would go towards a deputy for her department, as well as two more investigators and a manager of rape prevention programming.

The manager of rape prevention programming would be tasked with overseeing mandated online training for all students on sexual misconduct prevention, she said.

“None of us are under the illusion (the online course is) going to change their behavior. It’s not even intended to,” Carroll said. “It’s really to put them on notice this is what our policies are.”