TUITION REMISSION
Alliance Contract
Per your Alliance contract:
Full-time employees shall be eligible for tuition remission as follows:
A. For enrollment in any state-supported course or program at the undergraduate or graduate level at any Community College, State College, or State University, excluding the M. D. Program at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, full tuition remission shall apply;
B. For enrollment in any non-state supported course or program offered through continuing education at any Community College, State College or State University, excluding the M. D. Program at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, fifty percent (50%) tuition remission shall apply;
C. Remission benefit is subject to space available and usual and ordinary admission policies. It is also subject to the approval of the Board of Higher Education and the policies and procedures of same.
D. A committee shall be established to evaluate the experience of this program and to consider possible extension of the program and to make recommendations concerning both.
E. Effective July 1, 2001, spouses of full time employees shall be eligible for the remission benefits contained in this Article and subject to the other provisions of this Article. It is understood that any program of spousal eligibility developed by the Board of Higher Education in conjunction with the Employer (HRD) require the subordination of spousal eligibility rights to those remission benefit rights extended to full time employees in different bargaining units as well as full time employees covered by the provisions of this agreement.