Guarantee for Job Competency for Professional/Technical/Workplace Students

If a graduate or certificate completer is judged by his/her employer to be lacking in technical job skills identified as exit competencies for the specific degree or certificate program, the graduate will be provided up to nine tuition-free semester credit hours of additional skill training by TSC under the conditions of this policy. The guarantee does not imply that the graduate will pass any licensing or qualifying examination for a particular career.

Conditions applying to this guarantee policy:

  • The graduate/completer must have earned the A.A.S. degree or certificate in a technical program published in the Catalog (or its addenda).
  • The graduate/completer must have completed the A.A.S. Degree or Certificate with a majority (75%) of the credits being earned at TSC within a four-year time span from initial enrollment. The last 15 semester credit hours MUST be completed at.
  • The graduate/completer must be employed full-time in an area directly related to the area of program concentration as certified by TSC.
  • The graduate/completer must commence employment within six months of graduation/completion.
  • The employer must certify in writing that the employee is lacking entry-level skills which were identified as program exit competencies as approved by the program advisory committee. The employer must specify the areas of deficiency within 90 days of the graduate’s/completer’s initial employment.
  • The employer, graduate/completer, and representatives of TSC will develop a written educational plan for retraining.
  • Retraining will be limited to nine semester credit hours related to the identified skill covered by the retraining plan.
  • All retraining must be completed within one calendar year from the time agreed upon for the educational plan.
  • The graduate/completer and/or employer is responsible for the costs of books, insurance, uniforms, and other course-related expenses.
  • The student’s sole remedy against TSC and its employees for skill deficiencies shall be limited to nine semester credit hours of tuition-free education under the conditions described above.