Tuition+Reimbursment

 Attention all teachers:

On March 1st (2012) the Tuition Waiver committee met to discuss modifications we felt needed to be made to the current tuition waiver program. This program was created years ago in partnership with WSCU as a way to encourage teachers, especially those with interns, to continue their education at Western by providing them with the financial means to do so. In the past, each fall the "Teacher Welfare" account was given $2000 from WSCU to fund the waiver program. The money for this program came from grant monies that have been spent. The head of the teacher education department at Western wants to continue to partner with the Gunnison Schools, so they have give what they can, which is $500. In the past teachers with interns were given priority over all other teachers as this was seen as a compensation for taking Western State Colorado University students.

As a committee we decided to make it a trimester program where reimbursements will be accepted and made in November, January, and May. Reimbursement for November will be from classes taken during the summer, January's reimbursement will be for classes taken in fall, and May's reimbursement will be for winter classes.

The tuition reimbursement committee decided there would be a maximum outpay per trimester as well as a maximum of two credits per trimester (potential of 6 credits reimbursed a year) in order to prevent all of the money being used up right away. Per the request of the WSCU teacher education department only courses taken from Western will be reimbursed. The priority for those being reimbursed will go to those with a WSCU intern, and then those working in some capacity with WSCU students, followed by those others who apply for reimbursement. There will be a specific form for requesting tuition reimbursement which will have you detail all of this information, which will then be organized by the tuition committee three times per year (prior to each tuition reimbursement submission).

For now the dollar amount of reimbursement is going to remain at $25 per credit hour with the possibility of lowering the amount as determined by the committee in order to reimburse as many teachers as possible.