Graduate Studies Dean Jeffery Gibeling has issued a directive reminding that the campus's nonresident tuition remission policy for graduate student researchers is set to take full effect in 2007-08.

The university enacted the policy in the fall of 2004, relieving graduate student researchers of their obligation to pay nonresident tuition provided their GSR employment status was 25 percent or more. Tuition this year for a full-time, nonresident graduate student is $4,898 per quarter, or $14,694 for three quarters.

The university collects the GSR tuition money instead from other sources, usually the same funds that pay the students' salaries. This is the case for most federal sources, such as the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.

But while the policy took effect in 2004, the university allowed for a three-year transition period, knowing that research programs with existing grants had not budgeted for tuition costs.

So, during the transition period, the university advised deans, department chairs and others to collect tuition from alternate funding sources as allowed, or to tap into an emergency fund set up by the provost.

Gibeling, in his directive, advised: "One important consequence of the end of the transition period is that the emergency fund will not be accessible after June 30, 2007."

The directive also lays out the procedures to follow for tapping into alternate sources.

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For more information, contact CeCe Coyle in the Office of Graduate Studies, (530) 752-5125 or ccoyle@ucdavis.edu.