Tuition Assistance

Important Deadlines

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Please fill out the form completely and accurately to avoid delays or issues with timely processing. 

Please list the student ID number at the institution the employee is planning to attend/attending (Teaching Institution on the TAP form).

It is the employee’s responsibility to ensure the completed form is received by the TAP Team on or before the deadline. We appreciate early submissions!

TAP participants should expect notification emails throughout the TAP form approval process. 

Email to tap@westga.edu or fax to 678-839-6425.

For questions please call (678) 839-6403.  

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 Please email tap@westga.edu with questions regarding TAP or to arrange a time to speak over the phone.

The USG and its institutions encourage fulltime faculty, staff, and administrators to participate in development activities and study by remitting tuition for those activities that have been authorized by the employee’s institution. Participation in the Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) shall be available to fulltime, benefits-eligible employees who have successfully completed at least six months of employment in a benefits-eligible position as of the date of the TAP application deadline for the desired academic semester.

Fulltime employees who meet the applicable admissions standards and have received appropriate prior authorization from their institution may enroll in up to nine academic semester credit hours for each of the three designated semester periods: fall, spring, and summer semesters. 

Student status will be secondary to employee status in all considerations, including student fee waivers. Tuition assistance is the waiver of tuition and the waiver of certain fees. Tuition waivers for employees participating in the Tuition Assistance Program will be applied as follows effective January 1, 2018:

The Board approved applicable face-to-face or online tuition rate will be waived in full for all undergraduate and graduate programs and classes eligible under the Tuition Assistance Program.

TAP participation will be granted on a space-available basis. For limited-slot enrollment programs, approval must be granted by the teaching institution. An employee must receive a grade of C or better in each approved Tuition Assistance Program academic course.

TAP participants are allowed up $5250 annually in “tax free” educational assistance benefits. Employees generally pay taxes on benefits in excess of the annual $5250. Please contact your home institution’s payroll department and a tax professional about tax implications.

The following programs are NOT eligible for the Tuition Assistance Program waiver:

• Dental
• Medical
• Pharmacy
• Veterinary
• Law
• Executive total cost programs

 

The following UWG programs are NOT eligible for the TAP waiver:

• Online MBA