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TAP Procedures


Responsibility Required Actions
Employee1. Completes and signs the TAP application (available on line at http://www.reg.uga.edu/or.nsf/preview/TAP%20Application%20Info
Immediate Supervisor2. Promptly reviews the TAP application and advises the employee if his/her request is approved or denied.
Immediate Supervisor & Employee3. If an approved TAP course(s) is scheduled to meet during an employee’s regularly scheduled work hours, the immediate supervisor will advise the employee whether his/her work hours must be rescheduled or the employee’s class hours must be reported as annual leave (if available).
Immediate Supervisor4. Signs the approved TAP application and forwards the original document to the TAP Coordinator of the employee’s home institution by semester deadlines:
Fall Semester July 15th
Spring Semester November 15th
Summer Semester April 15th
Immediate Supervisor & Employee5. Each retains a copy of the approved TAP application for departmental and personnel files.
TAP Coordinator of the Home Institution6. Verifies employee eligibility and grants “home institution” approval. Notifies the TAP Coordinator of the“teaching institution” within ten (10) business days of the application deadline.
TAP Coordinator of the Teaching Institution7. If the TAP participant enrolls in a limited-slot academic class at a “teaching institution”, the TAP Coordinator of the “teaching institution” will advise the TAP Coordinator of the “home institution” if the employee will be accepted as a class member.
Employee8. Registers for TAP course(s) during the designated employee registration period of the “teaching institution”. (Please see http://www.usg.edu/employment/benefits/tuition/tap-dates.phtml )
Employee & Immediate Supervisor9. If a desired course(s) is filled before the employee registration period, the employee may receive approval from his/her immediate supervisor to enroll in an alternate course(s). The employee will be required to notify his/her “home institution” TAP Coordinator in writing or by e-mail of this decision, and, the employee will be required to copy his/her immediate supervisor of the change.
Employee & TAP Coordinator
(Home Institution)
10. TAP participants who are students at UGA but not UGA employees must submit a copy of their grade(s) to the TAP Coordinator of their "home institution" to continue participation in the TAP program.