The Daily Bulletin Archive

The NYS & CSEA Partnership for Education and Training has announced a Statewide Targeted Tuition Program for Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) that provides tuition assistance to CSEA-represented NYS employees who are formally enrolled in one of the following types of programs:

• a bachelor’s degree program in facilities engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, or marine engineering; or
• an associate degree HVAC program; or
• a BOCES HVAC certificate or diploma program (440 or 900 hour); or
• an HVAC, electrical, refrigeration, boiler operations and maintenance, or plumbing certificate or diploma program at an accredited technical school or technology college.

Eligible employees can receive up to two targeted tuition benefits (vouchers or reimbursements). Each targeted benefit can cover one non-credit course up to $1,180 or one credit-bearing course, up to a maximum of 4 credits at the resident tuition per credit rate, not to exceed $295 per credit. Applications must be received by March 31, 2020, and courses must be in session sometime between April 1, 2019, and March 31, 2020.

More information can be found on the partnership’s website (PDF, 387 KB), by phone at (800) 253-4331, or by e-mail.