Educational Benefits
Last updated
August 21, 2012 9:26:03 AM PDT
Learn about educational benefits and resources for eligible UCSD employees.
UCSD employees receive a variety of educational benefits, depending on eligibility. Benefits include reduced-fee enrollment or discounts on courses. In some cases, employees may also be able to arrange time off or an alternative work schedule to attend classes. Read below for details, or go to the Educational Benefits system to complete your request.
Types
Types of educational benefits include:
- UCSD Extended Studies and Public Programs (Extension)
Career employees and their spouses or domestic partners receive a 10% discount (up to $50 per quarter) on most UCSD Extension courses with fees of $75 or more. You do not have to complete your probationary period to receive this discount. For information, contact the Extension Cashier's Office, (858) 534-3400.
- UCSD General Catalog courses for fall, winter, and spring
Career employees who have completed their probationary period and work 50% or more are eligible to receive a 66% discount on full-time education and registration fees at UCSD or any other UC campus when enrolled as a student to take up to 3 courses or 9 units per quarter, whichever provides the greater benefit. For information, see Employee-Student Program.
- Note: Some UCSD degree programs (such as certain graduate programs) are self-supporting and do not offer educational discounts. Be sure to check with the program's home department to confirm that the discount applies.
Using educational benefits
For Staff Education and Development courses, vist the UC Learning Center.
To use your educational benefits for Extension, General Catalog or Summer Session classes, and to process all requests for professional development, please follow these steps:
- Campus-funded employees
- Use the Educational Benefits system to create your request. The request can be created by the applicant (student) or a departmental preparer.
- Choose the type of class that you will take
- Indicate whether department funds or time will be used
- Complete all required fields
- Use the Save/Send button to begin the approval process
- Supervisor and department head will be notified by email for their approval.
- When all approvals have been obtained, the request will be emailed to the appropriate campus office, who will contact the applicant.
- If expenses will be paid via reimbursement or advance payment, an email will be sent to Disbursements confirming the approval. Departments will process the payment through the Payment Authorization system; there is no change to this process.
- UCSD Medical Center-funded employees:
- Fill out the Training Justification and Anticipated Cost (TJAC) form (pdf)
- Request signature approval from your supervisor and department head
- Submit the original copy of the completed TJAC form to: UC San Diego Health Sciences Human Resources Dept., Attn: Tamitha Mueller, Mail Code 8912.
Resources
For more details on educational benefits, check the following resources:
Note: This page has a friendly link that's easy to remember: http://blink.ucsd.edu/go/edbenefits
Notice: The information on this page summarizes provisions of university policies and/or collective
bargaining agreements. Refer to the Personnel Policies for Staff
Members (PPSM) or applicable collective bargaining
agreement for full text of referenced information.
