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Employee Tuition Waiver

Employee Tuition Waiver

Full-Time Regular Employees
During employment, full-time college employees, their spouses/domestic partners and eligible dependent children, will be entitled to tuition-free enrollment in MHCC courses, including challenge courses and portfolio assessment courses. Any class attendance or class-related responsibility that might interfere with the employees work schedule must be approved by the employees supervisor.

When a full-time employee retires under one of the colleges retirement incentive programs, the retired employee, spouse/domestic partner and dependent children will be entitled to tuition-free enrollment in MHCC courses, including challenge courses and portfolio assessment courses.

If a full-time employee or a former employee who retired under a retirement incentive program passes away, his/her spouse and/or dependent children are eligible for tuition-free enrollment in MHCC courses, including challenge courses and portfolio assessment courses. Upon remarriage, the spouse will no longer be eligible for tuition-free enrollment; however, dependent children will still be eligible.

One-time admission fees, special course fees and community education course fees are excluded from the tuition waiver benefit.

The following persons are eligible for the tuition waiver:

• Husband or wife of the employee
• Domestic partner as defined by health coverage eligibility; documentation may be required.
• Natural, legally adopted or legal custodian of an eligible dependent children of the employee through the age of 23
• An employees stepchildren who qualify as eligible dependents of the employee, through the age of 23; documentation for the dependent status may be required
• Domestic partners children who qualify as eligible dependents as defined by health coverage eligibility through the age of 23; documentation for the dependent status may be required
• Eligible dependent children are qualified as long as the employee is supporting them financially at least 50 percent.

It is the employees responsibility to inform human resources if a family member no longer meets the above stated eligibility requirements.

Part-time Non-Bargained Employees
Part-time employees who have worked 400 hours or more in the prior fiscal year and are expected to work 400 hours or more in the current fiscal year shall be eligible for one three-credit tuition waiver each term during which they are employed. Tuition waiver is non-transferable to a dependent and cannot be accumulated.

Human Resources will verify the 400 hours worked in the prior fiscal year, and the supervisor will be responsible for confirming the number of hours that will be worked in the current fiscal year.

Part-time Faculty & Tutors Association Members
Members of the part-time faculty & tutors association shall receive tuition waiver benefit as outlined in the collective bargaining agreement between the college and the association.