Dependent Tuition Waiver for Graduate Students. Dependents of full-time regular unit members who are matriculated students shall be eligible for a waiver of 50% tuition for courses taken as part of an approved program of study for the degree. Dependents of part-time regular unit members who are matriculated students shall be eligible for a waiver of 25% tuition for courses taken as part of an approved program of study for the degree when space is available.
Dependent Tuition Waiver for Graduate Students. Dependents of full-time regular unit members who are matriculated students shall be eligible for a waiver of 50% tuition for courses taken as part of an approved program of study for the degree. Dependents of part-time regular unit members who are matriculated students shall be eligible for a waiver of 25% tuition for courses taken as part of an approved program of study for the degree when space is available. In no event shall a tuition waiver exceed 50 % tuition for a dependent of a full-time regular unit member or 25 % tuition waiver for the dependent of a part-time regular unit member. Unit members and dependent waivers cannot be additive. Requests by a unit member to take a course during his or her normally scheduled work hours shall be subject to supervisory approval. Such requests shall not be unreasonably denied. In the event that approval is granted, the supervisor must make arrangements for the unit member to make up time which was missed from work unless the unit member is approved to take a leave without pay or annual leave for this purpose. This benefit shall not be applicable when a unit member is on an unpaid leave of absence of more than ninety (90) days (except for military call-up), long-term disability or Worker's Compensation. In the event a unit member has begun a course and one of the above situations occurs, the unit member shall be permitted to maintain enrollment at no cost until the end of the semester. Any unit member or dependent eligible under the provisions of this Article, who receives a scholarship or work study funds from any source, shall have the tuition waiver applied first and then the amount of the scholarship and/or work study funds. When a unit member is terminated through participation in the University's long-term disability program and has twenty (20) or more years of continuous University service, or dies, or retires, or is laid off, the dependent of that unit member who is enrolled full-time or is a part-time matriculated student participating in a tuition waiver program at the time of the unit member’s termination, death, retirement or lay-off shall maintain eligibility for that tuition waiver program. The tuition waiver shall remain in effect as long as the student either maintains continuous full-time enrollment or part-time matriculation, until completion of the requirements for a degree. When a unit member is called to active military duty, his / her dependents shall be eligible to participate in the tuitio...
