STAP Eligibility & Coverage

To be eligible for the Staff Training Assistance Program, an employee must meet all the following criteria:

• Staff includes regular benefits-eligible staff, including SLAC, other teaching staff, and clinician educators.
• Be a current and continuing regular or fixed-term staff employee (including a bargaining unit employee). See Admin Guide Memo 2.2.1 for the definition of regular staff or fixed-term employees.
• Receive no financial assistance from other sources that would duplicate STAP assistance (departmental funds may augment but not duplicate STAP assistance).
• Academic Staff-Teaching: Senior lecturers, lecturers, and artists-in-residence who work at least 50% of the time are also eligible for the Staff Training Assistance Program.

• Faculty, students, temporary employees, retirees, post-doctoral scholars, and other non-staff university affiliates are not eligible for STAP assistance.
• Family members of eligible employees are not eligible for STAP assistance, even if they attend a course with eligible staff.
• Terminated employees: No requests for training or development activity will be accepted after employment with the university or employment with SLAC ends.

• Tuition and registration fees
• Required course textbooks and other eligible media 
• Stanford Technology Training courses
• Stanford Healthy Living Courses (where designated as STAP-eligible)
• Stanford Continuing Studies Program (CSP) courses
• Stanford Talent Management & Workforce Strategy (TM&WS) courses
• Stanford Career Counseling Network (CCN) up to $500
• Stanford Children’s Health (LPCH) parenting and prenatal courses (only employee’s portion of the course fee; not family members, if a joint course)
• Courses, workshops, webinars (e.g., Coursera or SkillPath)
• Registration fees for seminars, professional conferences, and symposiums may also be eligible

• Test preparation courses (e.g., GMAT, LSAT, GRE, and MCAT)
• Exam or testing fees
• Retreats (i.e., staff or group retreats, conference retreats, wellness retreats are some examples)
• Courses and other education involving sports, games, or hobbies
• Training to meet the minimum educational requirements of the current job or to qualify for a new trade or business
• Professional membership fees, dues, or subscriptions
• Travel expenses, parking, lodging, and meals
• Rosetta Stone Language CDs or similar programs
• An employee may not receive reimbursement under STAP and reimbursement under the Staff Tuition Reimbursement Program (STRP) for the same course or program. For example, eligible staff cannot use STRP for tuition and STAP for books, supplies, and equipment for the same course or program.