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C. Principles for Setting Tuition and Related Fees: 3. Within each tuition category, each university president will have sufficient flexibility, with appropriate justification, to recommend differential levels of tuition and fees for all students at their university or for subcategories of students, consistent with Regent and institutional strategic goals, based on student classification level, program of study, or other relevant criteria 5. University Tuition and Fee Proposals: Prior to submitting tuition and fee recommendations to the Board Office for review and analysis, each university president must: h. Tuition for nonresident students should, at a minimum, cover the full cost of their education at each Regent university.

Excerpts Include: Introduction: UNL will continue to build on areas of academic strengths. For many of the degree programs expanded markets are the only way UNL can offer distance education programs to citizens of the state. The greatest growth opportunities are with non-thesis masters programs and graduate certificate programs. Principal Academic Emphasis: The goal is for faculty, departments and administrators to treat distance education responsibilities as part of their normal workload and not as an extra, or adjunct, responsibility, thus allowing UNL to be a stronger and more responsive university. 1. Develop distance education graduate degree and certificate programs for professionals in fields of UNL's special expertise. 2. Develop modules with specific learning outcomes to be used in credit and non-credit programs. When evaluating new distance education degree and certificate programs the following guiding principles will be used: 3. Develop courses, sets of courses or certificates in undergraduate professional programs, i.e. Journalism and Agriculture. 4. Explore the application of instructional technology to support learning of distance education and on-campus students. When evaluating new distance education degree and certificate programs the following guiding principles will be used: 7. Are there collaborative partnerships that expand resources by building relationships with other colleges and universities within the state, region or nation?

Response to Need and Demand: Most of the growth will occur in masters degree programs that have excess capacity and new degree and certificate programs that will be developed in the next four years. To increase enrollments will require aggressive target marketing of individual programs within Nebraska, the nation and the world. Targeting Nebraska alumni living outside the state is an important target audience for some distance education programs. The greatest potential for graduate student growth will be the out-of-state market. Funding Support for Distance Education: In July 2003, the NU Presidents Council adopted a policy giving the chancellors authority to set out-of-state tuition for distance education students at a higher rate than the in-state tuition. This tuition differential (difference between the in-state tuition and out-of-state distance education tuition) is returned to the campus and funds are used to support distance education programs.

Finance information: * 4.22 WAIVER OF FEES: page138 * 4.23 WAIVER OF TUITION: page 139 * 4.23.4 WAIVER FOR OKLAHOMA STATE REGENTS ACADEMIC SCHOLARS PROGRAM: page 140 * 4.23.5 NONRESIDENT TUITION WAIVER: page 141

4.20 IRREGULAR CLASS MEETINGS All class meetings should be held during the regular hours scheduled for the course. Unscheduled meetings at other hours should be held only for very unusual and clearly defensible reasons and never for the mere personal convenience of the instructor or the students or both. If it is desirable for sound educational reasons to schedule a departmental or joint quiz at an evening hour so that all sections of a course may write the quiz simultaneously (uniform exams), the date and hour of each such irregularly scheduled quiz should be made known to all the students concerned during the first week of classes. If a student then incurs a serious conflict at one of these hours, the responsibility is the students. If no such notice of irregularly scheduled hours for departmental or joint quizzes can be given, such a plan for giving tests is presumably not important enough to merit systematic planning and should not be used. The University discourages all unscheduled class meetings; individual faculty members and departments regulate their teaching schedules in accordance with this principle. The department that announces the hours at which a course will meet, the faculty member who agrees to teach it at those hours and the student who has agreed to take it at those hours have all assumed an unwritten contractual obligation from which no one of them should deviate without very substantial reasons for doing so. (Deans Council, 12-14-66; Senior Vice President and Provost, 9-20-68, 3-3-05)

4.22 WAIVER OF FEES Norman Campus - Faculty Handbook Institutions may establish procedures for waiving of tuition and fees for students who are enrolled in courses offered on a non-standard schedule. (State Regents for Higher Education, 1-30-61, 5-31-97)

Meeting Educational Needs through Partnerships and Collaboration (Chapter Five) page 53 ♦ Higher education institutions will work as partners with one another and with other entities whenever appropriate to share resources and deliver programs cooperatively to enhance learning opportunities for Nebraska residents. ♦ Higher education will work effectively with elementary and secondary schools to improve teaching and learning at all levels of education and to facilitate the transition from one level of education to another.

Financial Officers' Common Price Distribution Model TOP The finance officers agreed that students would pay a common price for Great Plains IDEA program course credits at all Great Plains IDEA institutions. The price is subject to annual review and adjustment. The fees collected are dispersed to support teaching (75%), program administration and advising (25%), and Alliance central services (25%).

Collaboration: page 118 Kansas Board of Regents Policy and Procedure Manual APPENDIX K COLLABORATIVE PROGRAM/DEGREE PROCEDURES Proposals for collaborative programs/degrees must include the following and should be limited to two pages: (a) A brief description of the nature of the collaboration and the benefits to Kansas (b) Lists of partners in the collaboration and degrees/certificates (if any) to be conferred by each partner (c) Description of faculty load and faculty compensation for each partner (d) Tuition/fees for each partner (e) Description of student support services provided by each partner (1) Academic Advising (2) Financial Aid (3) Access to facilities (4) Transcripting procedures (f) Plans for joint use of facilities (g) Plans for joint purchase and/or maintenance of facilities (1-19-05) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 25. COLLABORATIVE PROGRAM/DEGREE POLICY page 148 The Kansas Board of Regents encourages and supports system-wide cooperative and collaborative efforts among postsecondary institutions within the State of Kansas and between Kansas institutions and out-of-state institutions, including international institutions. a. Defion of collaborative programs/degrees Collaborative programs/degrees are defined as programs/degrees developed and/or approved jointly by more than one institution; students from each participating institution may study parts of the program/degree at the collaborating institutions. In this policy, "program" refers to a formal academic course of study. Although most programs result in a degree or a major within a degree, in some cases, such as teaching endorsements, a program does not result in a major or a degree. b. Requirements for collaborative programs/degrees (1) Effective August 2005, all new collaborative programs must be reported to SCOCAO and SCOP according to the procedures described in Appendix K. The purpose of the report is to

APPENDIX D RESIDENCY RULES AND REGULATIONS Article 3--GUIDELINES FOR THE DETERMINATION OF RESIDENCY FOR FEE PURPOSES Page 88 88-3-1. Student Information. Whenever a question arises concerning a person's residence classification for fee purposes, that person shall be provided with a copy of information substantially as set forth in this regulation, together with K.A.R. 88-3-2 through 88-3-13. "Carefully read the information, statute, and regulations that follow. Then, if you believe you should be eligible for resident classification for fee purposes, complete the attached application for residence classification and submit it to the registrar within 30 days of your notification of classification as a nonresident for fee purposes. When an appeal is made by a student from a determination that the student is a nonresident, the student must pay nonresident fees at the time designated for payment of fees. If the student is found to be a resident, the difference between resident and nonresident fees will be refunded. Subject to the provisions of K.S.A. 77-601, et seq. decisions of the residence committee shall not be subject to further administrative review by any officer or committee of the university, or by the state board of regents." Responsibility "The responsibility of enrolling under proper residence classification for fee purposes is placed on the student. If there is any possible question of residence classification under the regulations of the state board of regents, it is the duty of the student when registering and paying fees to raise the question with the registrar. If a student enrolls incorrectly as a resident of Kansas and it is determined at a later date the student was a nonresident for fee purposes, the student shall be required to pay the nonresident fee for all terms during which the student was incorrectly registered." (Authorized by K.S.A. 76-730; implementing K.S.A. 76-729; effective, E-71-35, Aug. 20, 1971; effective Jan. 1, 1972; a

Finance Info: 3.17.18 Fiscal Provisions for Electronic and Traditional Off-campus Instruction. Page 157 3.17.20 Electronic Curriculum Development Fund. Page 159

3.14.8 Certificates: Certificates and other forms of academic recognition other than degrees may be awarded by institutions only as authorized by the State Regents and in the form approved by them for this puspose. Institutions should submit reequests to award certificates only when the certificate is identified on the transcript, diploma, or degree (See the State Regents Aademic Program Review Policy). Awards or certificates give for completion of short courses, non-credit offerings, basic education courses, or other such experiences need not be submitted for State Regents' Approval. Page 127

Academic Program Review. Page 68