Information Technology Division
Services:
Rules and Procedures


Tuition Waiver

IOP #207. 80.
Audience: Internal

Service Type:
ITD-Staff-IOP

Service Name:
Tuition Waiver

Brief description of service:
Class time vs. work time considerations.

Clients Eligible for service:
Staff

Type of use:
University business only


Guidelines for Taking Courses and Applying for the Tuition Waiver Plan


The purpose of the Tuition Waiver Plan is to help employees continue their education so as to improve themselves and develop their careers. This is consistent with our university's emphasis on life-long education.

This plan is not intended to interfere in any way with satisfactory job performance. The university waives tuition for a course during a regular semester. Information Technology may allow job-related courses to be taken during working hours if such arrangments can be made without interfering with satisfactory job performance. The following guidelines are given to achieve these purposes.

  1. Permanent full-time employees may apply for tuition waiver for a course which is job-related and leads to career development, including courses which are required in a degree program in which the employee is enrolled. The employee's manager will recommend to the vice provost or assistant vice provost whether the course should be considered job-related. The manager may also recommend approval for the course to be taken during working hours (up to a maximum of three hours per week). This approval is contingent on the manager's ability to make arrangements permitting the employee's absence during those hours. Times which do not adversely break up the work day are preferred. ITD reserves the right to require the employee to make up the course time. This will only be done during severe overload periods. Time spent in a course during working hours will not be considered as time worked for purposes of computing compensatory time or overtime.

  2. Permanent full-time employees may apply for Tuition Waiver for courses which are not job-related. If approved, these courses are to be taken on the employee's own time.

Persons applying for Tuition Waiver should fill out the form, get their supervisor's signature, and have the form signed by the vice provost or assistant vice provost.

 


Last modified 4/16/02 fw

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