Regularly employed full-time and part-time faculty and staff may enroll in the university for undergraduate or graduate tuition-waived classes, for a maximum of twelve (12) credit hours per fiscal year for full-time employees and six (6) credit hours per fiscal year for part-time (20+ hrs./wk.) employees.
For employees enrolled in semester module courses, up to four (4) hours can be taken in the Fall and Winter semesters and six (6) of the twelve (12) tuition-waived hours can be taken in the Summer provided the supervisor agrees to the schedule and space is available after all tuition paying students have been accommodated.
For employees enrolled in module courses that are less than a full semester (for example, eight week courses), up to six credit hours may be taken during each of the Fall and Winter Semesters; not to exceed one course at a time and not to exceed the 12 credit hours per fiscal year.
For this policy only, the tuition-waived class year is determined to be May 1 to April 30, meaning that all summer classes will be counted in the next fiscal year (June 1 to May 31).
Tuition waivers do not apply for private music lessons, student teaching, courses requiring individualized faculty direction, laboratory costs, and/or other costs and fees which are charged in addition to tuition.
If a university employee does not utilize all of the available hours in a given year the employee’s spouse may benefit from the tuition-waived policy under the same terms as for an employee. An employee and spouse can take a class at the same time; an employee’s spouse can take more than one course at a time; but in any and all cases, the combination of hours taken by the employee and their spouse cannot exceed twelve (12) credit hours (six credit hours for part time) in any year.
Employees must have a current Southern Adventist University financial account and be current on all student loan payments at the time of registration before the tuition-waived class plan will be approved. University scholarships and monies from the Southern Adventist University Endowment Fund are not available to anyone enrolled in a tuition-waived class.
The regular number of work hours must be maintained while taking any tuition-waived class. Employee eligibility begins the semester immediately following the semester in which the employee was hired. Eligibility for tuition-waived classes ends at the end of the semester in which employment ends.