PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR CLASSIFIED STAFF:
tuition payment for a class at tcc Taken to Complete a Degree Program
1. Decide which degree to pursue and develop a timeline for completing that degree.
2. Decide which TCC class to take toward completing your chosen degree.
3. Decide on a funding source or combination of sources.
Three sources of funding for tuition are available to full-time classified staff:
4. Fill in and submit forms HR-78 and HR-79 (see instructions, below). If using Classified Funds, attach e-mail confirmation of funding to the forms. Use the timeline you developed in Step 1 to fill in the HR-79.
5. Wait for return of the approved, signed HR-78.
[If you have not received approval before tuition is due, contact Dorie Monroe, DMonroe@tcc.edu, 822.1704, in HR, for assistance.]
NOTE: If you begin taking the course before receiving the fully authorized request form, you are beginning that class without TCC's permission and without TCC's agreement to help pay your expenses. You may have to complete the course without the college's financial assistance.
THEN:
6. Register for the class.
8. You may submit to HR a copy of the tuition assistance request forms and a photocopy of your final grade printed from the SIS screens to be added to your personnel file. Keep a photocopy of your final grade for your files.
1. Tuition Reimbursement Fund ($500.00 available after the one-year probationary period): Every campus (and District) has been allotted a fund (managed by the Business Manager on each campus or the Budget Manager for District) to assist employees with tuition expenses. During each new fiscal year (July 1 – June 30 of the following year), full-time employees are allowed to submit applications for up to $500.00 from this fund. All courses must be completed and the paperwork processed before the end of the fiscal year. After January, you might consider submitting a second request for additional funds; if there are fewer than normal requests made to date that year, your request may be awarded. This fund is for tuition assistance only, and for classified the course must be job-related or degree-related.
2. Individual Equity ($150.00): Every full-time classified staff member has been allotted $150.00 in financial support, called "individual equity", for professional development every fiscal year. To "be allotted" the money simply means that TCC will earmark that much for you to use each year if you want it. But the money belongs to the college and if you do not use it, the college will use it for something else. TCC reallocates that amount every July 1. You may use this fund toward tuition as well.
3. Classified Professional Development Fund ($800.00 available after the one-year probationary period): On July 1 of each year, a specified amount is reallocated into the fund. The Classified Association administers the fund in accordance with the Classified Professional Development Plan. A Classified Professional Development Fund Committee determines which requests for funding are awarded. Again, this money belongs to the college and whatever monies employees do not use will be used by the college for something else. According to the "rules", each staff member is limited to requesting a max of $800. Use it to pay whatever balance you may have left after using your tuition assistance or individual equity.
4. Other funding may be available through your department budget or an outside agency/organization willing to pay your expenses. Ask your supervisor or do some research on these. If you do find an outside funding source, you will have to do the paperwork for that agency’s financial assistance to their satisfaction.
