Refund/Fee Adjustments

The Tennessee Board of Regents has instituted a new system wide policy for calculating refunds/fee adjustments. Under the new guidelines, fee adjustments will be based on courses dropped; and it is possible that certain adjustments will result in no refund after the fee adjustment period.

• These new guidelines will affect full-time students taking more than 12 hours who -- during a fee adjustment period -- adjust their schedules to below 12 hours, including complete withdrawal. Students who fall into this category will be assessed a prorated fee for the dropped hours.

• For example: fees for a student registered for 15 hours that drops to 9 hours during the 75% refund/adjustment period, will be re-calculated for 9 hours at the full rate per hour and 6 hours at 25% of the rate per hour. The difference between the re-calculated fees and the original tuition would be the refund to the student.

• Pellissippi State will begin processing fee adjustments beginning approximately two weeks after the end of each refund period (see dates below). It takes several weeks to process all the fee adjustments. The college will deduct from proposed refunds any amount owed by the student to the college.

Dates for Fall 2009

Note: The dates for refunds noted above are subject to change at any time prior to or during an academic term, due to emergencies or causes beyond the reasonable control of the institution…including severe weather, loss of utility services or by order of federal or state agencies

If you are forced to drop classes after these dates due to extenuating circumstances, use the Refund Appeal form* to appeal a higher refund. Submit this form with supporting documentation to the Cashier's Office at any campus.

* Please Note: To use this form you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader, Version 5.0 (or a later version) installed on your computer. If you do not have Adobe Acrobat Reader or would like to upgrade to a newer version, you can do so from the Adobe web site.