OFFICE OF RECORD: Office of Graduate Studies
INITIATED BY: Briant L. Davis/Timothy G. Henderson
APPROVED BY: II-D-05
EFFECTIVE DATE: November 15, 1988 Page 1 of 1
GRADUATE TEACHING/RESEARCH ASSISTANT TUITION REMISSION POLICY
POLICY
Graduate teaching or research assistants carrying nine or more credit hours per semester
(six credit hours during the summer session) and receiving a minimum salary of the currently
defined minimum stipend per semester are eligible for the graduate assistant tuition rate.
Students who are not appointed as graduate teaching or research assistants or graduate student
fellows are not eligible for the graduate assistant tuition rate.
PROCEDURES
1. Tuition remission for assistantships must be charged to an externally-funded
research activity, whether funded through SDSM&T or the SDSM&T
Foundation.
2. Scholarships and fellowships funded from private funds, including those funded
through the SDSM&T Foundation, do not qualify a student for the graduate
assistant tuition rate, and hence, will not be charged for tuition remission or used
in the ratio for calculation of tuition remission charges.
3. A review will be made of the source or sources of salary funds for each graduate
student receiving the graduate assistant tuition rate. The review will be
conducted separately for each of the following three academic periods: summer,
fall and spring. The review will be designed to analyze the composition by
source of funds in the total salary disbursement to each graduate student.
4. At the conclusion of the salary review, direct charges for the applicable share of
the graduate assistant tuition benefit will be made to all funded projects based on
the ratio of non-state-appropriated salary to total salary. Direct charges for
reduced tuition benefits will not be made to state appropriated funds or to funds
used to support teaching assistantships.
5. Research fellowship eligibility requirements and restrictions are parallel to those
for research assistantships. A fellowship award may not always include reduced
tuition as a benefit.
The above policy will apply to sponsored research projects whose budgets have been submitted
after August 31, 1988, or whose budgets previously included tuition remission.
Revised 5/19/92 to “standardize” wording.
Reference BOR Policy #2:22.