Resolution Recommending Restoration of Full Faculty/Staff Tuition Benefit

Present March 19, 1999; Passed April 17, 1999

The Faculty Senate of The University of Southern Mississippi requests that the Board of Trustees, State Institutions of Higher Learning restore full tuition benefits to USM faculty, staff, and their qualified dependents.

The Faculty Senate bases this request on the following considerations:

1. Full tuition benefits for USM faculty, staff, and their qualified dependents were available until July 1977 when the benefit was reduced to half tuition;
2. Full tuition benefits would provide greater incentive for faculty, staff, and their qualified dependents to pursue higher education and enhance the competence and quality of faculty and staff;
3. Full tuition benefits for faculty/staff and their dependents would enhance the University's capacity to recruit highly-qualified employees in increasingly competetive academic and administrative marketplaces; and,
4. Full tuition benefits would be of material assistance to USM's historically underpaid faculty and staff members and their dependents.

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