Office of
Financial
Assistance

Ms. Trish Bussone
Tuition Exchange
Liaison Officer
(309) 677-3089
pmb@bradley.edu

The Tuition Exchange

Procedure for Selecting Participants for the Tuition Exchange Program

Effective September 17, 1981, the Bradley University Senate approved the following procedure for selecting parents to participate in the tuition exchange program:

Each faculty and administrative staff member will earn one unit of credit for each academic or calendar year of full-time service as a faculty or administrative staff member at Bradley University . Each faculty and administrative staff member will be debited at the rate of 2½ units for each academic year that his or her child participates in the tuition exchange program.

Preference for participation of a student in the program will be given to those faculty and administrative staff children whose parent has the highest number of net (credits less debits) units. In the event that two or more faculty and administrative staff members have an equal number of net units, preference will be given to the prospective student participant having the highest composite ACT score.

Once a student has entered the tuition exchange program, he or she is eligible to complete his or her entire academic program, up to a maximum of four consecutive academic years. Upon entrance of the student into the program, the parent is automatically debited for the number of years that the student applied for, times 2½ units / year. (For example, assume a student enters the Exchange Program as a freshman working toward a B.S. degree. Further assume that the faculty or administrative staff parent has 24 net units of credit. Ten units will be debited immediately when the student enters that program leaving the faculty or administrative staff parent with 14 net units of credit).

In cases where both parents are full-time faculty or administrative staff members, credit will be earned by the parent having the longest full-time service as a faculty or administrative staff member at the University.

This procedure will be applied on a year-to-year basis. That is, only people applying in a particular year will be considered and if a spot is not available in the first year of application the student may continue to apply each subsequent year with the hope of a spot opening up, but in no case will priorities of spots be assigned on the basis of application dates.

In order to be considered under these provisions applications for tuition exchange must be made to the Financial Aid Office at least one year prior to the expected date of matriculation.

Those faculty and administrative staff members who have participated in the program in the past at Bradley will be debited for the number of years their dependents have participated on the same bases as those entering the program for the first time.