This benefit provides the opportunity for full-time and limited full-time professional support staff and administrators to be awarded a one-time stipend upon the completion of a higher education degree from a regionally accredited United States institution.  The value of this stipend would be determined according to the type of degree earned (ranging from an associates degree to earned doctorate), and the degree must be related to the employee’s work in the DCCCD.  

The stipend would be applicable only through the attainment of a progressively higher degree.  For example, an employee who currently holds a Masters degree could receive a stipend upon the completion of a doctorate, but would not receive a stipend upon the attainment of a second Masters degree.   

This stipend is available to full-time and limited full-time professional support staff and/or administrators earning degrees beginning September 1, 2007, and beyond.  No degrees earned prior to this date are eligible for this award. 

The College may request that an employee obtain a degree in a field other than one in which they have already obtained a degree for the benefit of the College/District.  The Degree may be lower than their highest degree obtained.  In these special cases the location cabinet member may authorize the payment of the stipend once the degree is conferred and District Human Resources receives the appropriate documents.