Washington Administrative Code › Title 174 - Evergreen State College, The › Chapter 174-162 - Student affairs - Release of student information - Financial obligation of students › Section 174-162-300 - Collection and appeal

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
As an institution of public higher education administering
				public funds, the college has the responsibility to exercise due diligence in
				the collection of its outstanding accounts. To this end, the following policy
				is adopted:
(1) When students
			 register, tuition and fee obligations are incurred unless the students
			 officially withdraw by the fifth day of the quarter. Tuition and fees are
			 payable in full by the fifth day of the quarter. Students who have not paid
			 full tuition and fees prior to the sixth day of the quarter will be assessed a
			 fifteen dollar late payment fee. Students who have not paid the full amount of
			 tuition and fees by the thirtieth calendar day will be disenrolled for
			 nonpayment of fees on the thirty-first calendar day. If the student is
			 reinstated following disenrollment, a fifty dollar reinstatement fee will be
			 assessed in addition to tuition and fees (as well as the late payment fee), and
			 will be due and payable at the time of reinstatement. All other charges
			 presented on accounts receivable statement forms are due and payable on the
			 tenth day of the month following the month that the charges were recorded.
			 Charges that are not paid when due are considered delinquent and as such are
			 subject to interest and penalty charges.
(2) Every student has the right to appeal a
			 decision to assess any fee, fine, charge, debt or other financial obligation to
			 the college as long as the appeal is made within ten days after the written
			 notice of assessment. The appeal must be in writing and directed to the
			 budgetary unit head of the unit assessing the charge(s) in question. The
			 budgetary unit head receiving the appeal must respond to the appeal within ten
			 days of the date of the appeal. If the appeal is denied and the student has not
			 resolved his or her financial obligation to the college within ten days after
			 the response to the appeal, the college may take the action authorized by WAC
			 174-162-310. If the student is
			 still in disagreement with the decision, he or she may initiate COG mediation
			 procedures as long as those actions are started within ten days after the
			 response to the appeal.
(3) All
			 student charges will be turned over to student accounts for collection
			 action.
(4) In the event an account
			 becomes sixty days delinquent all facilities on campus will be notified to
			 cancel all credit privileges for the account and the registrar will be advised
			 to withhold the student's transcript and registration privileges.
(5) In the event an account becomes
			 seventy-five days past due it will be turned over to the collection agency for
			 collection and/or legal action if appropriate.
Statutory Authority:
				  RCW
				  28B.40.120(11). 83-12-001
				  (Order 83-2, Motion No. 83-21), §
										174-162-300, filed 5/19/83;
				  80-18-025 (Order 80-3, Resolution 80-43), §
										174-162-300, filed 11/26/80;
				  Order 77-4, §
										174-162-300, filed 12/16/77;
				  Order 77-1, §
										174-162-300, filed
				  4/26/77.