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July 13, 2001
Volume 38, No. 18

• Forget weeding: It's time for reading

• Iowa's energy costs prompt conservative measures

• Retirees take their own sweet time

• "Quote....Endquote"

• News Briefs

• July longevity awards presented

• Twelve honored for staff excellence

• 2000-2001 Faculty and Staff Retirees

• Bulletin Board

• Calendar

• Deaths

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Offices and Awards

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Ph.D. Thesis Defenses

• Publications and Creations

• Tuition assistance available for employee development

• Staff tuition grant application for fall semester 2001

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Tuition assistance available 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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