Faculty Staff Tuition Remission and Tuition Exchange
Faculty-Staff Tuition Remission
Employees and their families may be eligible to receive Faculty-Staff Tuition Remission. Specific policies governing remission are outlined in the Birmingham-Southern College Policies and Procedures Manual. For more information, contact the Human Resources Office at (205) 226-4646. This application must be routed to appropriate personnel before being returned to the Financial Aid Office. Employees who are requesting faculty-staff tuition remission for themselves must complete a faculty-staff tuition remission form each term in which he/she is enrolled. The application tuition remission is year specific and is located on the financial aid form page for the specific year:.
The Tuition Exchange Program
BSC participates in both the national Tuition Exchange (TE) Program, involving schools throughout the United States, and in the Associated Colleges of the South (ACS) tuition exchange program, involving most ACS member schools. These programs provide the opportunity for dependent children of BSC faculty and staff members to receive tuition exchange at other participating institutions. For the national TE Program, the annual value of the exchange varies among participating institutions; however, it cannot be less than a stated minimum in any given year. (This figure is available from the Office of Financial Aid.) For the ACS program, the value of the exchange at participating institutions is full tuition. Most member institutions in both programs are liberal arts colleges, although some more specialized institutions also participate. The Office of Financial Aid has lists of those institutions participating in either or both programs. (Some institutions, like BSC, have dual participation.) Due to restrictions inherent in both programs, some member institutions may not, in given years, be able to participate in tuition exchanges. Interested faculty and staff members should contact the Office of Financial Aid beginning in the fall of each dependent's senior high school year for details on participating institutions.
Procedures for applying for tuition exchange are:
- Obtain from the links below or from the Office of Financial Aid the list of participating institutions in either or both programs to determine which schools will be participating in tuition exchanges.
- The Office of Financial Aid will certify the eligibility of your dependent child to the school or schools under consideration.
- The Tuition Exchange Liaison Officer of the receiving institution(s) will notify both the student and the Office of Financial Aid of acceptance into or rejection from the particular tuition exchange program and, if acceptance, will indicate the value of the particular tuition exchange for the upcoming year.
- Both tuition exchange programs are renewable annually, usually up to a four-year maximum, provided the student meets the stated academic standards of his or her institution for continuance of the tuition exchange. It must be noted that at many institutions the process of admission into the institution is separate from the process of receiving tuition exchange, and that an offer of one neither implies nor guarantees an offer of the other. (Typically, an offer of tuition exchange follows an offer of admission or is contingent upon a subsequent offer of admission.)
To apply please submit the form directly to Financial Aid.