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As a MD resident I find this kind of shocking. Why should the university provide that kind of benefit to any employee with 5 years of service? It's meant to reward employees, and in the case of retirees long term employees (and usually retirees are using it to take a class here and there, not send their kids to college). That seems out of the norm for universities. What other costly benefits is the university system providing to people who have only been there 5 years and are able to retire? Given the budget and tuition pressures someone needs to look into this.[/quote]

How is it "shocking?"  It's a good benefit, from an employer that does not pay that well.  DH struggles to hire staff because they have strict limitations on how much they can pay.  DH is not faculty, and his program actually makes hundreds of thousands of dollars in [b]profit FOR[/b] the University, and he's paid less than people in the private sector.[/quote]

Because they are giving the benefit to people who AREN'T staying. It's one thing to give it to current employees but another to give it to people who only stayed for 5 years. You can start to build up a pretty big obligation that way.[/quote]

I don't see it that way at all.  In the private sector, DH and his colleague would be getting higher pay, stock options, or have a profit sharing arrangement, all guaranteed benefits, given the amount of revenue he is generating for the organization.  Instead, he is offered tuition remission at ONLY MD state schools, a benefit he may or may not use, depending on so many factors.  Other universities actually offer tuition support outside their own system.   Further, you are not even aware of the actual cost, you just assume that MD employees are taking advantage of it right and left (they're not). Even worse, the University reserves the right to change access to the benefit at any time.  You can rest assured that if tuition remission was actually having much of a negative impact, the policy would change instantly.  The University has no obligation to lose money on it.  So I am not counting on it, but it is a good benefit if we do happen to use it, and DH has no intention of leaving anytime soon.[/quote]

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