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June 8, 2001
Volume 38, No. 17

• Of clowns and satellites: Staff Celebration Day

• Final budget determinations wait for word from state and Regents

• Worried about energy curtailment? Don't sweat it

• Faculty, staff get 'em while they're hot

• "Quote....Endquote"

• News Briefs

• UI SMART suggestion program seeks ideas for streamlining processes, saving money

• Staff Council presents June Longevity Award

• Staff Charter Committee selections made

• IOWA winners

• Bulletin Board

• Calendar

• Deaths

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Offices and Awards

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Ph.D. Thesis Defenses

• Pubs. and Creations

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Correction

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Office of the Provost tentative deadlines for 2000-2001

• Parking: Ring in the new, renew the old

• Staff tuition grant application for fall semester 2001

• Tuition assistance for employee development

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Tuition assistance for employee development

The University offers a Tuition Assistance Program that expands opportunities for professional development. The program allows departments to pay tuition costs for course work for faculty, professional and scientific staff, and non-organized merit staff. Courses must be in degree programs that contribute to the staff or faculty member’s professional development in his or her position.

To be eligible, employees must be appointed in a regular position for 50 percent time or more and must have been employed one continuous year at the University. Tuition assistance for up to four hours of course work per semester is allowed.

While taking course work, employees must remain employed and available for regularly scheduled work hours unless modifications to their schedules are authorized by their departments. Those who leave University employment within three years of completing the class may have to reimburse the University for all or part of the assistance.

Faculty and staff members wishing to participate should request permission from their departmental executive officers. Funding for the program ordinarily comes from the source that supports the faculty or staff member’s salary. Correspondence class costs will be reimbursed after course work is completed.

A limited fund has been established to provide aid for those whose salaries are supported by the general education fund or by grants that do not permit such expenditures. Departmental executive officers may request support from this fund by sending a completed Faculty/Staff Tuition Assistance Program application to Leann Hotchkiss, Staff Development, 121-51 USB. Staff members and departments requesting assistance from this fund must return completed applications for the 2001 fall semester by July 20.

Application forms are available from the Office of Staff Development, 121-51 USB, or on Staff Development’s web site at www.uiowa.edu/~fusstfdv. For additional information, call Leann Hotchkiss, (33)5-2901. Semester application deadlines are: July 20 (fall) Nov. 1 (spring); and April 1 (summer).

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