Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3352 - Wright State University › Chapter 3352-5 - Personnel Policies › Section 3352-5-08 - Educational benefits program

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A) General 
								education benefits program
			 policy. The Wright state university board of trustees has established an
			 educational benefits program employee fee
			 remission policy to permit and encourage employees, their spouses,
			 retirees, and eligible dependents to enroll for course work at the university
			 with educational benefits under the provisions of the Wright state university
			 code of regulations. The benefit under this program consists of payment of the
			 instructional fee, general fee, and out-of-state tuition (if applicable) while
			 engaged in eligible course work at the university for qualifying employees;
			 payment of a portion of the instructional fee, general fee, and out-of-state
			 tuition (if applicable) while engaged in eligible course work at the university
			 for their spouses and eligible dependents of qualifying employees; and for
			 payment of a portion of the instructional fee, general fee and any out-of-state
			 tuition while engaged in eligible course work at the university for qualifying
			 retirees and their spouses and eligible dependents. The policy also provides a
			 benefit for services rendered the university by  graduate assistants, graduate teaching
			 assistants, and research fellows.
The program consists of two separate employee benefit plans
				(the qualified educational assistance plan and the fee remission plan)
				providing similar benefits. Eligible participants access educational benefits
				under both plans in the same manner. The two plans are maintained to provide
				maximum benefits while minimizing income tax liability for the benefit amount
				for eligible participants.
Under the first plan, eligible employees and retirees enrolled
				for qualifying graduate level courses at the university receive benefits under
				the qualified educational assistance plan. The qualified educational assistance
				plan is offered under the provisions of Internal Revenue Code Section
				127.
Under the second plan, fee remission plan benefits are
				available to eligible employees and eligible retirees enrolled for
				undergraduate classes at the university, to the spouses and dependents of
				eligible employees and eligible retirees enrolled for graduate and
				undergraduate classes at the university, and to certain graduate assistants,
				graduate teaching assistants, and research fellows.
The fee remission plan benefit is offered under the provisions
				of Internal Revenue Code Section 117.
(B) Eligibility for benefits. Eligibility is
			 determined by the status of the employee or retiree on the first day of the
			 applicable term. An employee who is eligible employee on the first day of
			 classes of an academic term remains eligible for that academic term even if the
			 employee separates from service with Wright state university during the period
			 of the term.
(1) The following persons are
			 considered eligible employees for benefits under the qualified educational
			 assistance plan:
(a) An employee of the
			 university who is appointed to work at least on a seventy-five per cent annual
			 full-time equivalency basis in one or more of the following categories:
(i) Fully affiliated faculty;
(ii) Professional/administrative staff;
			 and
(iii) Hourly paid staff.
Appointed to work at least on a seventy-five per cent annual
				full-time equivalency basis is defined as appointed to work full time for a
				minimum of three academic quarters, as appointed to work seventy-five per cent
				of full-time for one year, or as appointed to work an equivalent amount of time
				on an annual basis if the appointment period is of another length.