Tuition Appeals
The Tuition Appeals Committee will consider requests for adjustment
to tuition and fee charges when a student can document extenuating
circumstances. Examples of circumstances:
- Medical Reasons which prevented you from attending class and/or
completing the requirements of the course.
- Death in the immediate family
- Change in Employment beyond students control
- Other extenuating circumstances
Appeals must be made within one year of the semester of which the
course being appealed was taken. Student needs to withdraw from course(es)
before appeals will be considered. Tuition appeals are for tuition
charges adjustment only. All grades received
will remain on the students transcripts.
**Students should be aware that if a tuition appeal
is submitted and they are a Financial Aid recipient, their financial
aid may be impacted and they may potentially owe Aims Community
College money.
Appeal forms can be obtained by contacting any Cashiers Office
or by using the link below. Tuition Appeal guidelines are
also available by using the link below, Be sure to review
the guidelines before completing the appeal process.
Links:
Please follow the below steps for filing a Tuition Appeals:
- Review Tuition Appeal guidelines.
- Print Tuition Appeal
form from the Aims website.
- Complete Tuition Appeal
form and obtain all supporting documentation
as set forth in the Tuition Appeals guidelines.
- If grant, scholarship and/or loan funds were paid on your behalf
for the semester in which you are appealing, see the Financial
Aid Office to go over the impact an approved appeal will have on
your financial aid eligibility.
- Submit the completed Tuition Appeal form and supporting documentation
to any Aims Community College Cashiers office. Appeals can be submitted
by mail, in person, or by fax 506-6952. Appeals will NOT be accepted
by email.
- Once the Tuition Appeal committee has reached a decision, the
student will be sent a letter stating the decision and action to
be taken next by the college or the student.
- If Tuition Appeal is “Approved”,
the student’s tuition account will be adjusted accordingly.
- If Tuition Appeal is “Pending additional documentation”,
the committee is requesting additional documentation in order to
make a final decision. The student will have 30 days to submit
the additional documentation or the appeals will be denied.
- If Tuition Appeal is “Denied”, student
can request for the tuition appeals to be reconsidered by the committee
if the student can supply additional documentation to support the
circumstances.
- An appeal of the final decision of the Appeal Committee may be
made to the Dean of Students, IF the student has
extenuating circumstances that includes confidential information
(e.g. personal, medical, etc); or can not, or will not document
the circumstances thru the original appeals. The student
needs to complete the Tuition appeals process first.
**Please note: Effective January 7, 2008: courses
for which a tuition appeal are approved will no longer be dropped
from your academic transcript. Rather, they will show as a
withdrawn course, or the grade recorded, and included
in your attempted hours.
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