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Tuition Waiver
In
cooperation with the other undergraduate school programs in the Atlanta
University Center, Spelman offers a Tuition and Fee Waiver Program.
This program is designed to strengthen our faculty and staff and to
provide educational assistance to their children.
Eligibility
The tuition
waiver benefit is available to full-time employees with at least one
(1) year of service.
Dependent
Eligibility
The
Dependent be the dependent child of a full-time employee of Spelman
with at least one (1) year of full-time service. The dependent child
must be a recent high school graduate with no more than 12-months since
graduation, or students who are transferring from another accredited
college or university.
Dependent
children of employees who retire or die with twenty years of service
that meet all other requirements of the program are eligible for this
benefit as it exists at the time of enrollment.
For
purposes of this policy, dependent children are defined as natural
children, legally adopted children, or stepchildren that are your
legal, court certified, dependants, under the age of twenty-four (24).
Proof of
dependent relationships must be provided at the time of initial
enrollment through the presentation of birth certificate, adoption or
guardianship papers or other legal documentation. If deemed necessary,
the College reserves the right to investigate the status of students
claimed as dependents.
This
program is intended to be a supplemental program to be applied after
the eligible participant has applied for and received all appropriate
federal and state financial aid grants or scholarships for which they
qualify. Those programs include:
Tuition
Equalization Grant (TEG) - Up to the maximum allowable by the state,
for any Georgia resident who is registered and enrolled for 12 or more
hours. This must be applied against tuition and mandatory fees.
Hope
Scholarship - Up to $3,000 per year, $1,500 per semester, for students
graduating from high school in the 80th percentile or with a GPA of
3.0. At each attempted 30-hour interval, students are evaluated and
must be maintaining a 3.0 GPA. This must be applied against tuition and
mandatory fees.
For the
Spelman student who is a dependant of a Spelman employee, the amount of
tuition and mandatory fee waiver for which the student is eligible will
be reduced by the TEG/HOPE eligibility amount.
For Spelman
students who are dependants of employees of other AUC schools, the
amount of tuition and mandatory fee waiver the student is eligible for
will continue to be reduced by the amount of TEG/HOPE for which the
student is eligible.
The College
offers this program at its discretion and reserves the right to modify
or discontinue this program at any time. Appropriate notice will be
given if this program is to be affected.
Employee
Eligibility
Faculty and
staff members who are employed as regular full-time employees and have
completed one (1) full calendar year of service are eligible for the
Tuition Waiver Program. Employees hired or classified as temporary,
contract or part-time are not eligible for this benefit.
Eligible
employees may not take more than four (4) complimentary credit hours,
or one (1) course, per semester utilizing the tuition waiver. With
supervisory approval, this single course may be taken during regularly
scheduled working hours. In such case, the class must be taken in lieu
of the lunch hour.
Courses
taken over and above the four (4) complimentary credit hours, or one
(1) course, per semester, will be billed to the employee at their
expense. These courses must be taken before or after work, and may not
exceed a total of nine (9) hours. The employee will be expected to work
an equivalent number of hours to compensate for any loss of work time
due to class attendance.
The
employee benefits portion of the tuition waiver program is not
administered on an exchange basis among the schools in the Atlanta
University Center. Therefore, all employees must take classes at the
respective institutions at which they are employed, which in your case
would be Spelman College. However, since Spelman is a women's college,
and does not accommodate males through graduation, our male employees
are permitted to take classes under the tuition waiver program at any
of the other colleges in the AU Center.
Employees
that become inactive (extended leave, FMLA etc.) may complete the
semester in which they are currently enrolled but may not make
application for another course or semester until they have returned to
full-time active status.
Employees
must maintain a minimum "C" average, as defined by Spelman
College academic standards to remain in the program. If the GPA falls
below the minimum, the employee may continue to take classes at their
own expense until the minimum standard has been reached.
General
Information
The Tuition
Waiver Program for employees and dependents is available for
undergraduate courses only. The tuition waiver does not apply to
Continuing Education or to post-baccalaureate courses
Approval
for this benefit does not by itself authorize an employee's absence
from work to attend courses scheduled during normal work hours.
Arrangements must be made in advance with the supervisor before being
absent from work.
This
benefit must be applied for and all paperwork completed, each semester.
When
applying for the tuition waiver you must show evidence that you have
completed all of the necessary steps to apply for financial aid. Your
application should be submitted to the Vice President for Financial
Affairs and Treasurer as soon as possible to allow time for processing.
Participating
Institution Deadlines
Please keep
in mind that the institution you are applying to may have a deadline
for receipt of your application. Clark Atlanta University will not
accept tuition waiver applications after the established deadline for
the semester to which you are applying. Your tuition waiver application
must be received in their office by this date. Please note the
following Clark Atlanta University application deadlines:
Semester First Day of Application Application Deadline
Fall May 1st June
30th
Spring September 1st
October 30th
Since each
institution has the right to impose a strict deadline, please be sure
to contact the institution to which you are applying to ensure that you
have time to meet their deadline.
This
benefit allows for the acquisition of only one degree each, for the
eligible employee and children.
Policy No. 391 Effective Date: 9/1/2000
Revision Date: 6/1/2002
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