Metro State’s Extended Campus Program is on a mission to make sure that students, faculty and staff understand that the College Opportunity Fund (COF) stipend has no bearing one way or the other on tuition for courses at Metro South and Metro North.

“The tuition for Extended Campus courses remains what it has always been because they are cash-funded,” explains Carol Svendsen, director of Metro Education Ventures, the umbrella program that manages off-campus courses. “There never has been any state funding for these courses, so students have always paid—and will still pay—only the student share of tuition, plus the appropriate fees.”

On the other hand, courses on the main campus require the COF stipend or students will have to pay the state share as well as the student share of tuition. For more information about COF go to http://www.mscd.edu/~collcom/@metro/tw@metro_vol2/cof_twv2011205.htm

Svendsen says that there has been some confusion because Extended Campus courses are listed as “COF ineligible.”

“Yes, COF stipends don’t apply to these classes, but neither are students being charged any state contribution to tuition, so it’s a wash,” she said.