Resolution Recommending Portability of Faculty/Staff Tuition Benefit

Presented March 19, 1999; Passed April 17, 1999

The Faculty Senate bases this request on the following considerations:

1. USM faculty, staff, and especially their dependents, effectively lose the existing tuition benefit if a desired educational program is unavailable at USM, forcing them to pursue higher education elsewhere;
2. Dependents of USM faculty and staff who cannot pursue their educational goals at USM may find appropriate programs of study at another state-supported Mississippi institution, thereby retaining these students in Mississippi institutions and forestalling their quest for higher education outside of Mississippi;
3. The pursuit of higher education at other state-supported Mississippi institutions, for a variety of academic and nonacademic reasons, may be more appropriate to students' aspirations, goals, and needs;
4. Portability of tuition benefit to other state-supported Mississippi institutions for faculty, staff and their dependents affords greater freedom of choice in their pursuit of higher education.

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