Local 2627 Members in CUNY
PART I from CUNY WHITE COLLAR CONTRACT
Article V.
Section 5. Educational Opportunities
Employees shall be exempted from the payment of tuition fees for
courses offered at colleges of The City University, as defined in
Article I, pursuant to the following conditions;
(a) Each employee, to qualify for tuition fee exemption, shall:
- be a full-time active employee, and
- have served full time for at least twelve months prior to the first
day of classes, and
- meet the academic requirements for the course. (It is not necessary
for the employee to be a candidate for a degree; the employee may be a
nondegree student).
(b) Tuition fee exemption shall be offered for courses which are:
- in an associate degree program,
- in a baccalaureate degree program.
[See also, PART TWO, below]
(c) Exemption from payment of tuition fees shall not apply to adult
education courses or to other courses supported solely by fees except as
provided herein.
(d) Exemption from payment of tuition fees does not include exemption
from payment of non-instructional fees.
(e) Selected employees who are recommended by their supervisor for
training in stenography, typing, and other special work skills, after
consultation with the administrative head of the Division in which the
course is offered, for example, a Dean of a School, shall be exempt from
payment of tuition fees for such courses.
(f) Other conditions of tuition fee exemption:
- There must be an available vacancy in the course at the time of
enrollment and such enrollment shall not be used to determine if the
course is to be given.
- The course shall not be taken during employee's normal working
hours.
- An employee may choose to take a course during his/her lunch hour
which is designated as the period between the hours of 11:45 a.m. and
2:15 p.m., provided that when an employee elects to take a course
during the lunch hour he/she will automatically be charged, at the
beginning of the semester, at the rate of 15 minutes of annual leave
per contact hour. Therefore, on a semester basis, an employee will be
charged one-half (½) day of annual leave for each classroom
period per week (a classroom period is not to exceed sixty (60)
minutes). If at the end of the semester, the employee can reasonably
demonstrate to his/her College Director of Human Resources that the
time charged was not used, all such time will be restored to the
employee's annual leave balance.
(g) The controlling factors in the availability of the educational
opportunities described above shall continue to be time in employment,
availability of courses, work schedules, and, with reference to
subsection (e) selection.
PART II from MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT,
CUNY & DC 37, JULY 2005
6.a Article V of the respective Blue and White Collar Unit Agreements
shall be amended to provide three (3) credits per semester at the
graduate level to full-time employees of the Blue and White Collar Units
during the fall and spring semesters, on a space available, no cost
basis, in accordance with the requirements set forth in Article V,
Section 5 of the Blue and White Collar Unit Agreements.
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