Catalogue 2008 Book - Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary

FINANCIAL AID
DINING HALL
The Seminary’s Stotts Fellowship Hall is located in the McCord Center, adjacent
to the Currie Residence Hall. The facility is operated by a catering service and
administered with the goal of providing healthy, well-balanced, reasonably priced
meals. Stotts Fellowship Hall also serves other special events of the Seminary as
needed.
Any member of the campus community can dine at Stotts Fellowship Hall.
Accepted forms of payment are cash, check, or a Seminary Campus Card. Ordinarily,
while school is in session, breakfast, lunch, and dinner are served Monday through
Friday with the exception that dinner is not served on Friday evening. The meal
schedule and costs are subject to change.
�CAMPUS EMPLOYMENT�
The Student Employment program at Austin Seminary provides opportunities for
students to work up to fi fteen hours per week on campus at various compensation
levels depending on the responsibilities of the position. To be eligible to work in the
program, a student must be enrolled in the Master of Arts in Theological Studies
or Master of Divinity degree program. Students enrolled in course work during the
term(s) of employment are given fi rst priority. Employment opportunities include
assisting a member of the faculty and administration or working in the library or
chapel. The Student Employment program is coordinated through the Seminary’s
human resources and fi nancial aid offi ces.
�FINANCIAL AID�
PROGRAM
Austin Seminary, in accordance with principles generally accepted by member
seminaries of the Association of Theological Schools, seeks to assist students whose
fi nancial resources are insuffi cient to meet the cost of attending the Seminary. Persons
applying for admission as students in the Master of Arts in Theological Studies and
Master of Divinity degree programs receive the current Student Financial Assistance
Program Policies and Procedures and are thus enabled to form an opinion of the
fi nancial feasibility of pursuing graduate theological study at Austin Seminary. The
Seminary’s director of fi nancial aid stands willing to assist students in assessing their
particular fi nancial circumstances, especially where anticipated needs are markedly
greater than assured aid.
There is no fi nancial aid available for Doctor of Ministry students or Special
Students.
RESOURCES
Financing of a seminary education is understood to be a shared responsibility
of the individual student (and spouse, where applicable), the Seminary, and the
church (including individual members, local congregations, and governing bodies).
Inasmuch as nearly 70 percent of the actual cost of an Austin Seminary education
is provided by the Seminary through endowment income and from contributions,
the cost to the student refl ects only a small portion of the actual cost. Students are
expected, therefore, to meet as much of their seminary expenses as possible through
assets, savings, earnings, or spousal employment.
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