B. Courses under this program must be for credit, and employees must meet the regular academic rules and regulations of the institution offering the course. Auditing a course is allowed if the course is a credit course. Fees will not be waived for programs for which part-time or course by course enrollment is prohibited as determined by the institutions or costs exceed regular courses. Examples include, but are not limited to, programs of law, medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, veterinary medicine. Payback Provisions None required.
Forms are available in the employee's department.
After obtaining approvals through the appropriate Academic or Administrative Officer, the form should be sent to the Graduate School for graduate students and to Admissions for undergraduate students. If the employee is attending the employer institution, the expenditure is charged to employee benefits. If the employee is attending another institution, the instituion attended charges the expenditure to scholarships and fellowships. The employer institution does not recognize an expenditure when an employee attends another institution. The University of Tennessee and the Tennessee Board of Regents do not exchange funds for employees taking courses between the systems.