* ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS FOR FACULTY/STAFF TUITION WAIVERS:
Subject: EDUCATION BENEFITS
I. PURPOSE: To encourage and facilitate enrollment in university coursework.
II. POLICY # 8.2.1:
A. Group 1–Benefit Eligible Employees
1) Tuition waivers are available to all employees who are currently employed .75 FTEor greater, and to spouses of employees who meet
the criteria listed above. Tuition and institutional student fees are waived for nine (9) or less credit hours per semester; any eligible
employee or spouse who takes ten (10) or more credit hours per semester must pay full institutional student fees (only the tuition is
waived) in accordance with the University catalog. Special fees are still assessed.
2) This waiver program is available for all educational and general SUU credit courses including summer school and night school offerings.
Non-credit or self-support classes are subject to all non-credit or self-support fees.
3) Employees with the appropriate arrangement with the department head or immediate supervisor may make application to enter into
academic work, up to six (6) clock hours of work in a work week period during the employees’ regular working day hours, arranged so
as not to interfere with his/her contractual agreement and obligation to the University.
a. If th
e course is specifically related to the improvement of job performance (as determined by the employee, the supervisor,
and/or the intermediate supervisor), three (3) clock hours of work a week may be taken on a released-time basis, and the
employee will not be expected to make up the time.
b. Anything not covered by “A” above requires the released time to be made up or compensation adjusted as approved by the
supervisor.
c. Employees may, with the approval of their supervisor, use their lunch hour or time before and after their regular working day
hours to make up released time.
All such applications must be approved by the President, Vice-President, or Dean; in addition to the immediate supervisor.
4) The application and authorization for tuition waiver form must be obtained by the person receiving the waiver and appropriately
signed and submitted to the University Human Resources Department at the beginning of each semester.
5) An employee (and his/her spouse) who has formally retired at the age of 65 (normal retirement age) or older who was holding a
position under full-time “contract” for nine (9) months or more at the time of retirement is eligible for tuition waiver under the
provisions of this policy.
6) Tuition waivers are available to unmarried dependent children under 27 years of age of full-time employees currently under
“contract” for nine (9) or more months. One-half of tuition is waived for courses covered in Paragraph 2. The eligible individual must
pay one-half of tuition and all regular and special fees.
a. Eligibility and approval will be determined by the University Human Resources Department.
b. Application must be made in accordance with Paragraph 4.
7) Eligibility for all waivers is determined as of the first day of the term, not at the time application is submitted.
A. Gro
up 2–Half-time Benefit Eligible Employees
1)
Half-time benefit eligible * employees who are employed for less than .75 FTE and greater than .50 FTE are eligible to register for three (3)
or l
ess credit hours per semester without being charged tuition and regular fees. Special fees are still assessed. The class must be taken
outside of normal working hours.
1)
Adjunct faculty employees teaching part-time are eligible to receive a full tuition waiver for three (3) or fewer credit hours per
semester in which they are teaching. Special Fees are still assessed.
*Ben
efit Eligible employees refer to individuals that are eligible for University fringe benefits (retirement, vacation, medical insurance, long-
term disability, etc.).
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