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Tuition Reimbursement for Courses Taken at Other Institutions

The College provides tuition reimbursement for courses completed at other accredited institutions of higher education. The College will reimburse actual tuition costs for approved undergraduate, graduate and career technical courses in an amount not to exceed the University of Missouri-St. Louis resident tuition rate in effect during the semester in which a course is completed. An employee will be responsible for tuition expenses which exceed the maximum reimbursement amount and for other institutional fees and books. Only courses not offered at the College are eligible for reimbursement except in cases where completion of a degree requires that a course be taken at the degree awarding institution.

a. An employee must be a full-time faculty member or be employed in a regular or in an externally funded position which is assigned to a minimum thirty-two (32) hour work week and be continuously employed in this eligible category for at least one hundred and eighty (180) calendar days before the start date of a course.

Student Assistants, Educational Aides, work-study students and project based employees are not eligible for tuition reimbursement.

b. The course must be related to the employee’s job assignment or to a position at the College which is within the career path of the employee’s current position or the course must be a requirement for a degree program toward which the employee is working. The degree must also be similarly related.

c. The course must be taken from an accredited institution of higher education.

d. A maximum of fifteen (15) academic credit hours or the equivalent per calendar year is eligible for reimbursement.

e. An employee must submit a Tuition Reimbursement Form and obtain approval for the specific course(s) from the immediate supervisor and the Human Resources Department. This approval must be requested prior to the start of a course.

f. Upon completion of a course, the employee must submit proof of payment and a grade report which verifies that a grade of “C” or higher was earned for an undergraduate course or a grade of “B” or higher for a graduate course. When a letter grade or academic credit is not issued for a course, other verification of satisfactory completion will be required.