Full-Time Enrollment-Part-Time Enrollment: A full-time student is enrolled in 12 or more credit hours in a semester (full-time status for a summer term is 12 credit hours). A part-time student is enrolled in less than 12 credit hours in a semester.

 

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Full-Time Enrollment-Part-Time Enrollment: A full-time student is enrolled in 12 or more credit hours in a semester (full-time status for a summer term is 12 credit hours). A part-time student is enrolled in less than 12 credit hours . . . View Full Definition

Open Enrollment: A period when eligible persons can enroll in a health benefits plan.

Open Enrollment Period: The period of time designated by the employer’s health or other benefit plan when employees may enroll in new benefit plans or make changes to existing benefit plans.

Full-time student: A full-time student is defined as a student taking at least 60 per cent of a full course load.

Full-Time Equivalent (FTE): A value assigned to signify the number of full-time employees that could have been employed if the reported number of hours worked by part-time employees had been worked by full-time employe . . . View Full Definition

Disenrollment: Voluntarily terminating one's participation in a health benefits plan

Active Full-Time Employee: An employee must work for the employer on a regular basis in the usual course of the employer's business to be considered an active, full-time employee and eligible for coverage. Usually, a . . . View Full Definition

Automatic Enrollment: Your employer has the right to sign you up for your company's 401(k) plan, in what's known as an automatic enrollment. If you don't want to participate, you must refuse, in writing, to be pa . . . View Full Definition