The Graduate Student Fee Remission Tutorial for Staff has been developed to help staff working with academic graduate student fee remission eligible appointments to understand what fee remission is and the many complex nuances involved with fee remission. The Appointments unit realizes the many challenges hiring units face in setting up these appointments and we hope this tutorial in addition to our other tutorial, How to Create an Academic Appointment will help to demystify this subject matter. If you have more questions after reviewing this tutorial, please call the Appointments Unit at 642-7101 or e-mail us.

Fee Remission Tutorial Outline

1. What Is a Fee Remission?
2. Fee Remission; A Benefit to the Salary Source
3. Fee Assessment by Office of the Registrar and How That Can Affect Fee Remission?
4. Registration and Enrollment Requirement
5. Student Health Insurance Plan (SHIP)
6. General Overview of How Fee Remission is Generated
7. Undergraduate Fee Remission (GSI appointments only)
8. Combination of Academic Graduate Student Appointments
9. 170 Hour Rule per UC UAW Contract
10. NRST Remission Generation
11. Fee Remission in Combination with Other Awards in CARS
12. Collections Process for Fee Remissions
13. Requests for Retro-active Fee Remissions
14. Appointment Changes Initiated Near the End of the Semester or After the Semester has Ended