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POLICIES AND PROCEDURES
1. Instructional Fees Fees are announced on the annual fee schedule included in the fall registration packet. The fees will vary according to the type of lessons you have selected. See schedule of fee payments for details. Fees must be paid in advance. At least the registration fee is due before or at fall registration. If there is a need to make alternative arrangements for payment differently than the schedule specifies, please contact the Suzuki Coordinator. No bills will be sent but a statement of account is mailed mid-year. A payment reminder form will be issued at registration to remind families of their payment of fees. A general reminder that payment is due will be posted in the monthly bulletin. Payments can be mailed to: UNI Suzuki School, School of Music, Cedar Falls, IA, 50614-0246. They may also be paid at registration, left in the Suzuki mailbox in the UNI School of Music Office at Russell Hall or given directly to the Suzuki Coordinator. Please do not give payments to your teacher. Regular fees entitle a student to participate in all UNI Suzuki School events which include 31 weekly lesson, 31 group lesson or group activities, play-ins, two recitals with performance classes and performances including the annual spring concert. The fee is paid regardless of how many lessons a student attends. There will be no refunds for lessons missed by the student. (See #3) Summer lessons are also available for an additional fee. Enrollment must be made for the full academic year or from date of enrollment through the last week of the spring session. If discontinuance is unavoidable, arrangements must be made in advance with the Director. A fee will be charged for early withdrawal. Lesson times (for most teachers) are set at the beginning of the fall semester and may be changed only by agreement of both teacher and student. Limited financial aid is available. A request form is available from the Suzuki Coordinator and must be sent to the school by July 15. Requests must be filed annually. When you provide a check as payment, you authorize us either to use information from your check to make a one-time electronic fund transfer from your account or to process the payment as a check transaction. When we use information from your check to make an electronic fund transfer, funds may be withdrawn from your account as soon as the same day the payment is received and you will not receive your check back from your financial institution. Fees must be paid in full by the end of the spring semester to enroll in summer lessons given by UNI Suzuki School or UNI School of Music faculty. Fees must be paid in full by June 30 to enroll in the following fall or to participate in any of the programs sponsored by the UNI Suzuki School including chamber music groups, Northern Iowa Junior or Youth Orchestras, lessons, group lessons, workshops or classes. 2. Expectations As a member of the UNI Suzuki School, each student is required to participate in the spring concert, annual recitals, attend lesson and group lessons and practice regularly. 3. Make-up Lessons If a student misses a lesson for any reason, the teacher is not responsible for making up this lesson. Your teacher is a professional who has reserved time in his/her weekly schedule for you. Your teacher is at the lesson whether or not you attend. Any lesson cancelled by the teacher will be made up. These may be given during holiday breaks and/or summer upon mutual agreement of the student/parent & teacher. A partial refund will be issued only if the teacher cannot make up lessons he/she missed. Cancelled group lessons cannot be rescheduled. Teacher lesson schedules will be distributed by each teacher. To avoid missing a lesson, students anticipating an absence should arrange to trade lesson times with another student on their teacher’s list. Every effort will be made to reschedule individual lessons missed due to cancellations because of inclement weather. 4. Dismissal The program reserves the right to discontinue a student who does not exhibit sufficient interest to progress. (See #2) 5. Snow Days If the university, Waterloo, OR Cedar Falls public schools are closed due to bad weather, no group lessons will be held. Individual lessons may be held. Contact your teacher. 6. General Activity Fund A $20 fee will be charged per family ($25 for families with more than one student) each year for the general fund. This fund will be used for special events and accompanists. Returning families will pay this with their intent to register form each spring. New families will pay this as soon as they enroll. This check should be made payable to “UNI Suzuki Association” and should not include instructional fees or instrument rent payments. This organization was incorporated in late 1990 as a non-profit support group of the UNI Suzuki School program. All families enrolled in the program are members of the association. The association's board is made up of teachers, parents, and interested persons. The board meets monthly and serves the program by planning various fund raising activities and special events throughout the year. 8. Classes, Workshops, Retreats, Master classes, Institutes Special educational opportunities will be made available to the students whenever possible. There may be a fee charged to help cover the expenses for these events. Information about these events will be announced in the bulletin or by special notice. 9. Requests for Change of Teacher Requests for a change of teacher should be made in writing to the director. 10. Parking Special visitor tags are available for $26.80 from UNI Suzuki School office with limited parking privileges for Suzuki families. An annual fee per tag allows parking in the lot accessed off 23rd St. (Schindler Education building) anytime or Russell Hall lot on weekdays after 4:00. Parking tags are not needed on weekends. 11. Safety Children (under the age of 12) should be accompanied by an adult at all times.
12. Recording & photography b. All recordings or photographs
should be considered for personal family use only (non- commercial). We encourage families
to consider the ramifications of posting videos or photos on the internet sites such as
YouTube due to potential copyright and privacy issues. c. If the school becomes aware of
any posting or use of photo or video that violates the above guidelines, the
d. Recordings or photographs made by agents of the school shall be used for instructional and archival purposes only unless specific permission is granted by parents to use recording or photograph of their children in any public way (such as advertising, school website, or fund raising). 13. Questions or problems Questions should be directed to the teacher when possible or to the Director. Questions regarding fees, program instrument rent, workshop registration, etc., can be directed to the Suzuki Coordinator. |
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UNI Suzuki School Phone: 319-273-2508 email: cathy.craig@uni.edu Last updated: 6/22/09 Site maintained by UNI Suzuki School.
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