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Staff Tuition Benefits (Staff Fee Privileges)

PSU employees appointed at half-time or more (not including temporary classified employees, graduate assistants, or other student employees) may register for classes at special rates. To qualify for the staff fee, the staff member must meet the criteria no later than the first day of classes of the term of enrollment. An eligible employee, upon approval by the university president or designee and with approval of the employee's immediate supervisor, may register for a maximum of twelve credit hours per term at staff fee rates, under the terms and conditions described in the Academic Year Fee Book. Starting with the Fall 2003 term, the staff fee rate will be 25% of the resident per credit hour undergraduate tuition rate of the teaching institution, rounded to the nearest dollar.

Eligible employees may transfer their staff fee privileges to family members or domestic partners upon verification that the transferee is a qualified recipient of transferred staff fee privileges. For purposes of this policy, the term family includes spouse and dependent children in accordance with IRS Code and domestic partner as defined per Section One of the PEBB Affidavit of Domestic Partnership .

Important Changes in 2004-05

Beginning Fall term 2004, the timeline for submitting Staff Fee Approval Forms has been changed. Your cooperation with the new deadlines is needed to manage workload created by the staff fees program.

• Staff Fee Approval Forms for family members must be submitted to the employee’s Human Resources office two weeks prior to the start of classes.
• Staff members may submit their Staff Fee Approval Forms up to two days prior to the start of classes.
  

This change is necessary to eliminate the reprocessing late submission imposes on campus enrollment offices. Human Resources offices will be required to send all approved staff fee forms to the campus enrollment offices before the first day of classes.

The universities reserve the right to deny staff fee rates for late submission of approval forms.
Denials may be appealed to the university.

FAQs regarding staff fee and transferred staff fee privileges

Required Forms

• Staff Fees Form
• Affidavit of Domestic Partnership for Staff Fee Privileges
• Notice to Terminate Domestic Partnership for Staff Fee Privileges
• Programs Excluded from Staff Fee Privileges

PSU Course Information

Portland State University Bulletin

Schedule of Classes. List of classes offered each term. Available from the Registrar's Office.