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Educational benefits for university employees

UIS provides tuition waivers and fee exemptions as a benefit associated with University employment. Employees may visit the Office of Human Resources (HR) web site or call 206-6652 for more information. Tuition waivers, some fee exemptions or reimbursed payment for courses may be granted to employees and retirees for regular courses (established curriculum at any of the U of I campuses, including on-line courses with an online fee per credit hour payable by the employee), special courses, refund courses and directed study courses.

Employee eligibility and credit limitations differ for academic professional and civil service staff. Online waiver application forms for classes at the U of I campuses must be completed each semester and are available for benefit eligible employees by going to the HR website, then going to NESSIE, Life Events, and Continuing Your Education. HR staff will be happy to assist any employee with questions/information regarding educational benefits.

It is important to know that employee requests for tuition waivers for courses taken here on campus have a deadline each semester. If the NESSIE waiver is not received in HR prior to the end of the semester in which the course(s) is/(are) taken, they will not be approved and the cost of tuition will be the responsibility of the employee. It is the employee's responsibility to ensure that the proper paperwork is completed and submitted in the appropriate time frame.