Program Purpose

 

To provide an exemption of tuition to eligible students to encourage their parents to continue employment as professional nurse faculty or staff members in the State of Texas.

Eligibility Requirements

Students who:

• Are residents of Texas, and

• Are registered with the Selective Service System as required by federal law or are exempt from selective service registration under federal law, and
  

• Have not been granted a baccalaureate degree, and
  

• Enroll at an institution that offers an undergraduate or graduate program of professional nursing, and
  
• Enroll at the SAME institution of higher education at which the student’s parent is currently employed or with which the parent has contracted, either as a professional nursing faculty or staff member, and

• Be the child of an individual who:

            - At the beginning of the semester or other academic term for which an exemption is
              sought:

 

              (i)     holds a master's or doctoral degree in nursing, and is employed full-time by a
                      undergraduate or graduate professional nursing program offered by the institution that
                      the child is attending and is employed as a member of the faculty or staff with duties
                      that include teaching, performing research, serving as an administrator, or performing
                      other professional services other than serving as a teaching assistant, or

 

              (ii)   holds a baccalaureate degree in nursing and is employed by a professional nursing
                     program offered by the institution as a full-time teaching assistant, or

            - During all or part of the semester or other academic term for which an exemption is
              sought:

 

              (i)   holds a master's or doctoral degree in nursing, and has contracted with an
                    undergraduate or graduate professional nursing program in this state to serve as a full-
                    time member of its faculty or staff with duties that include teaching, performing research,
                    serving as an administrator, or performing other professional services other than serving
                    as a teaching assistant, or

 

              (ii)  holds a baccalaureate degree in nursing and has contracted with a professional nursing
                    program offered by the institution to serve as a full-time teaching assistant.
 
Effective Fall 2014, students must be making satisfactory academic progress (SAP) in accordance with the institutions financial aid policy.  Specifically, this means that students must:

 

            - Maintain a financial aid GPA of at least a 2.0 (Financial Aid GPA includes grades
              from developmental courses), and

 

            - Cannot have been reported by the institution as being in access hours according to Education
              Code 54.014

 

              SAP is run at the end of EACH semester.

Eligible Institutions

Available only for use at a Texas public college or university.

Award Amount

 

The exemption covers the student’s tuition only – fees are not covered.

Application Process

 

  Submit the following to the Financial Aid Office:

• The application form, and

• A written letter from the Human Resources Department confirming your parent’s employment.

        *The letter must include the preceptor’s name and that they employed as a Professional
          Nursing faculty or staff member.

 

To learn how to submit a request for the Child of Professional Nursing Staff exemption in Workday, click here.

Additional Information

Contact the Financial Aid Office for additional information or assistance with this program.

To read more about this program check out: Texas Education Code, 54.355