Comments received since presentation of this resolution at our last meeting resulted in the Handbook Committee recommending additional, clarifying, updates as reflected in the tracking document below.

 

 

TRACKING OF 4/25/02 PROPOSED CHANGES

HANDBOOK SECTIONS AFTER PROPOSED CHANGES [4/3/02]

 

 

Section 5

 

Faculty Benefits

 

 

§ 5-1  UNIVERSITY BENEFITS

 

The University of Southern California provides extensive benefit programs to benefits-eligible faculty.  In addition to benefits required by law, those programs currently include health insurance, dental insurance, retirement benefits, child care, tuition assistance for the faculty member and his or her eligible spouse and dependent children, life insurance and various other benefits.

 

The particular provisions of each benefit program are determined by the USC Senior Vice President for Administration after consultation with faculty through the University Employee Benefits Advisory Committee and the Senate Committee on the Faculty Environment.  Current provisions are discussed in the University publication Your Benefits for 200*, which can be accessed via the USC Benefits web site [hyperlink to:  www.usc.edu/benefits].

 

 

§ 5-2  TUITION ASSISTANCE and TUITION EXCHANGE

 

The University has two distinct plans to encourage and assist a full-time faculty member and his or her eligible spouse or children the dependent children and spouses of its full‑time faculty members to pursue higher education.  While this section contains a brief description of these plans, faculty members must contact the appropriate representative for complete information.

 

The Tuition Assistance program provides support to attend USC for the faculty member and his or her eligible, the spouse and, or dependent children who are admitted to the University.  Faculty members are allowed to audit one course per semester or summer session or to take a limited number of units of coursework in undergraduate, graduate, or professional classes per semester or summer session for credit at no charge.  But,

 

fFull‑time faculty members at the rank of assistant professor or higher shall not be received as candidates, or continued in candidacy, for any degree at the University of Southern California.  Individual exceptions may be made only with the approval of the Provost or of a special committee appointed by the President.

 

Eligible spouses, if admitted to the University, receive a fifty percent tuition discount for a maximum of 144 units of undergraduate coursework (including units for credit or audit-for-record), or for up to 72 units of graduate or professional school coursework. at the undergraduate, graduate, or professional school level.

 

Eligible Dependent children, if admitted to the University, receive a grant of 100% tuition remission up to a maximum of 144 units for credit or audit-for-record for their undergraduate education, or for up to 72 units of graduate orand professional study.  EligibleFaculty children enrolled in undergraduate degree programs that require more than 144 units shall be eligible for the additional units necessary to complete the degree program upon approval of a petition to the Provost's Office.  EligibleDependent children of faculty members with 15 years of full-time equivalent service continue to be eligible for tuition assistance, even if the faculty member is no longer employed by the University.  Similarly, eligibledependent children already receiving tuition remission who marry retain their eligibility.

The Tuition Exchange program, which is a nationwide competitive scholarship plan involving over 500 universities, provides for reciprocal tuition assistance for eligible children of full‑time faculty members and other eligible employees of institutions that grant internal full tuition assistance.  Tuition Exchange Scholarship awards are competitive and based on policies set by each member institution.  The awards may range from 75 to 100 per cent of tuition and fees.  Units taken under the Tuition Exchange Scholarship program count toward the unit maximums for tuition assistance at USC.  Information about participation in the program may be obtained from the Tuition Exchange Liaison in the Office of the Registrar.

 

 

Substantively, these updates bring the Handbook into agreement with the University’s Your Benefits document by (1) inserting the term ‘eligible children’ instead of ‘dependent children’, which is too restrictive a descriptor; (2) inserting the term ‘eligible spouse’ instead of ‘spouse’, where eligibility is defined in Your Benefits; and (3) recognizing that spouse benefits have the same unit limits as benefits for children.

 

 

Academic Senate Resolution 01/02-08

 

HANDBOOK SECTIONS AFTER PROPOSED CHANGES

[As approved at 5/8/2002 Senate Meeting]

 

 

Section 5

 

Faculty Benefits

 

 

§ 5-1  UNIVERSITY BENEFITS

 

The University of Southern California provides extensive benefit programs to benefits-eligible faculty.  In addition to benefits required by law, those programs currently include health insurance, dental insurance, retirement benefits, child care, tuition assistance for the faculty member and his or her eligible spouse and dependent children, life insurance and various other benefits.

 

The particular provisions of each benefit program are determined by the USC Senior Vice President for Administration after consultation with faculty through the University Employee Benefits Advisory Committee and the Senate Committee on the Faculty Environment.  Current provisions are discussed in the University publication Your Benefits for 200*, which can be accessed via the USC Benefits web site [hyperlink to:  www.usc.edu/benefits].

 

 

§ 5-2  TUITION ASSISTANCE and TUITION EXCHANGE

 

The University has two distinct plans to encourage and assist a full-time faculty member and his or her eligible spouse or children to pursue higher education.  While this section contains a brief description of these plans, faculty members must contact the appropriate representative for complete information.

 

The Tuition Assistance program provides support to attend USC for the faculty member and his or her eligible spouse and children who are admitted to the University.  Faculty members are allowed to audit one course per semester or summer session or to take a limited number of units of coursework in undergraduate, graduate, or professional classes per semester or summer session for credit at no charge.  But, full‑time faculty members at the rank of assistant professor or higher shall not be received as candidates, or continued in candidacy, for any degree at the University of Southern California.  Individual exceptions may be made only with the approval of the Provost or of a special committee appointed by the President.

 

Eligible spouses, if admitted to the University, receive a fifty percent tuition discount for a maximum of 144 units of undergraduate coursework (including units for credit or audit-for-record), or for up to 72 units of graduate or professional school coursework.

 

Eligible children, if admitted to the University, receive a grant of 100% tuition remission up to a maximum of 144 units for credit or audit-for-record for their undergraduate education, or for up to 72 units of graduate or professional study.  Eligible children enrolled in undergraduate degree programs that require more than 144 units shall be eligible for the additional units necessary to complete the degree program upon approval of a petition to the Provost's Office.  Eligible children of faculty members with 15 years of full-time equivalent service continue to be eligible for tuition assistance, even if the faculty member is no longer employed by the University.  Similarly, eligible children already receiving tuition remission who marry retain their eligibility.

The Tuition Exchange program, which is a nationwide competitive scholarship plan involving over 500 universities, provides for reciprocal tuition assistance for eligible children of full‑time faculty members and other eligible employees of institutions that grant internal full tuition assistance.  Tuition Exchange Scholarship awards are competitive and based on policies set by each member institution.  The awards may range from 75 to 100 per cent of tuition and fees.  Units taken under the Tuition Exchange Scholarship program count toward the unit maximums for tuition assistance at USC.  Information about participation in the program may be obtained from the Tuition Exchange Liaison in the Office of the Registrar.