Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3356 - Youngstown State University › Chapter 3356-7 - University Employees and Benefits › Section 3356-7-31 - Fee remission, excluded professional administrative employees

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A)
								Policy statement. The university is committed to
			 employment practices that promote the health and welfare of its employees.
			 Through its various fringe benefits packages, it offers employees incentives to
			 pursue additional education, to take advantage of events, activities and
			 performances offered, and to otherwise enhance each employee's standard of
			 living.
(B)
								Scope. This policy applies to full-time and part-time
			 excluded professional administrative employees, where applicable. For purposes
			 of this policy, "full-time employees" includes .75 full-time equivalent
			 excluded professional administrative employees. Academic department
			 chairpersons are excluded professional administrative employees, covered by
			 this policy. This policy does not apply to intermittent
			 employees.
(C)
								Parameters.
(1)
									University employees are eligible to be granted
			 remission of instructional and general fees at the university, including
			 out-of-state fees, where applicable. Dependent children and spouses are
			 eligible to be granted remission of instructional fees at the university,
			 including out-of-state instructional fees, where applicable. Children, for
			 purposes of this policy, are the biological children, legally adopted children,
			 stepchildren, or children for which the employee has been granted a legal
			 guardianship. Details of the fee remission program may be found at the benefits
			 section of the office of human resources website.
(2)
									The employee will
			 be required to produce sufficient documentation as requested by the university,
			 such as copies of marriage licenses, birth certificates, and certificates of
			 adoption or legal guardianship to assist the university in determining that the
			 child or spouse is eligible for fee remission. Employees must also complete the
			 university's application in order to receive tuition remission.
(3)
									Except for online
			 instruction provided by academic partnership or any successor, full-time
			 excluded professional administrative employees receive the following fee
			 remission:
(a)
										Instructional and general fees remission for up to eighteen
			 semester hours per academic year and six semester hours each summer
			 session.
(b)
										Instructional fee remission for
			 spouses.
(c)
										Instructional fee remission for dependent children to
			 the end of the academic year during which the dependent child reaches age
			 twenty-five.
(d)
										Instructional fee remission for former employees who
			 are retired. Instructional fee remission is available for retirees' spouses,
			 and dependent children (to the end of the academic year during which the
			 dependent reaches age twenty-five).
(e)
										Dependent
			 children of a deceased employee are eligible for fee remission of instructional
			 fees until they reach the end of the academic year during which the dependent
			 child reaches age twenty-five.
(f)
										A surviving
			 spouse of a deceased employee is eligible for remission of instructional fees
			 as long as the spouse remains unmarried. A stepchild of a deceased employee is
			 eligible for fee remission until the end of the academic year in which the
			 stepchild reached age twenty-five only as long as the surviving spouse of the
			 deceased employee remains unmarried.
(g)
										Starting in the
			 fall semester of 2022, full-time employees, their spouses and their dependent
			 children shall pay for twenty per cent of the cost of online instruction
			 provided by academic partnership or any successor.
(4)
									Except for online
			 instruction provided by academic partnership or any successor, a part-time
			 excluded professional administrative employee whose appointment equals at least
			 .5 FTE, but is less than .75 FTE, receives remission of one-half of the
			 instructional and general fees for up to six semester hours during the fiscal
			 year of employment. This formula for part-time employees also applies to
			 classes and noncredit continuing education. Spouses and dependents of part-time
			 employees are eligible for instructional fees based on the same formula,
			 pursuant to the parameters set forth in paragraph (C)(3) of this policy for the
			 spouses and dependents of full-time employees.
(5)
									Fee remission is
			 available to eligible part-time and full-time employees enrolling in classes
			 bearing Youngstown state university credit, including classes audited. Fee
			 remission does not apply to the college credit plus program.