Tuition for Winter Courses

2023 Session
In-person January 7 - 20, 2024
online January 5 - 18

ROOM & BOARD fees cover more than just your cozy 13-night stay. At Ox-Bow, the kitchen is the heart of campus and aims to provide all participants with three restorative, sustainable, and healthy meals per day. This team uses locally sourced ingredients as much as possible and can adapt to any dietary restriction. Meal plans are included in the room and board fee.

Single or shared rooms are available. Single rooms are limited, first-come-first-served and we encourage those interested to register quickly.

Questions about tuition, funding, or fees?
Bobby Gonzales, Programs Manager, at oxbow@ox-bow.org

FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

Ox-Bow Merit Scholarship
Ox-Bow will award a limited number of partial merit scholarships this winter. Applications are due October 22, 2023 by midnight. All students are eligible to apply. These portfolio based applications are reviewed by an outside panel of diverse arts professionals.

Students who receive a scholarship are able to pre-register for their preferred course. Apply online at ox-bow.org

Ox-Bow Work Scholarships
Ox-Bow will award a number of work scholarships on a first come, first-served basis to students enrolling in Ox-Bow classes for-credit. The work scholarship is equivalent to 50% of the cost of shared room and board while attending Ox-Bow.

Students work 13 hours per week while on campus in one of the following jobs: kitchen, housekeeping, grounds and maintenance. Each work study scholarship field is unique and requires teamwork with other Ox-Bow staff members in their departments. Tasks specific to these departments may change based on the time of year or priority projects but general descriptions are as follows;

• Kitchen work is often dishwashing, cleaning the dining room, or prepping ingredients for meals.

• Housekeeping is often cleaning bathrooms, sweeping floors, and turning over bedrooms.

• Grounds & Maintenance is often raking leaves, snow removal, setting up tables and chairs for events, and trash removal.

Students who receive a work study scholarship will receive confirmation of their field when they arrive on campus from Ox-Bow’s Campus Director, Claire Arctander.

Schedules are dynamic, based on the current needs of each department and students will be scheduled to work, at times, during class. Faculty are aware they may have a student who is working toward their work study scholarship and will keep them caught up with the syllabus. Failure to complete any of the hours assigned will result in a removal of the scholarship.

Due to one seven-hour shift on the final Saturday of the session, we highly recommend that work study scholarship students drive their own car to Ox-Bow. Students who did not drive to campus or cannot get a late ride home must find local accommodations on their own. The only train out of the area leaves very early in the morning, before your shift begins on that final day. If you are not driving, please consider if it is worth it to you to purchase housing nearby in order to take advantage of the work study scholarship.

Work scholarships can only be claimed in person at Ox-Bow's registration event in the Neiman Center starting at 8:30 a.m. CST November 13, 2023.

SAIC FINANCIAL AID
Undergraduate and graduate students from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago may be able to use their financial aid award and merit scholarships from SAIC toward for-credit tuition for courses at Ox-Bow. Students will need to complete an SAIC Winter 2022 Institutional Financial Aid Application available at www.saic.edu/faforms. Applications must be submitted before the term begins.

Please contact the SAIC Student Financial Services office or refer to the application for exact deadlines. Financial aid typically does not cover room and board or lab fees at Ox-Bow. Learn more about applying at the School's Office of Financial Aid, by calling 312-.629-.6600, or by emailing saic.sfs@saic.edu.

PAYMENT INFORMATION
For-credit payments should be processed via check to SAIC or credit card payment through SAIC’s payment partner, CASHnet, which is accessible through Peoplesoft Self Service.

DROP POLICY
Students needing to drop a winter course must drop their class by 4:30 p.m. CST on December 8, 2023 to receive a refund. All drops must be submitted in writing to Ox-Bow at oxbow@ox-bow.org From the time of registration to 4:30 p.m. CST on December 8, students will receive a full refund minus $250 and any associated lab fees. If dropped after December 8, no refunds will be given. In cases of a documented emergency, students may go through SAIC’s refund review process. 

If any participant tests positive for COVID-19 within 5 days of the first day of class, they will receive a credit to attend a future Ox-Bow class of the same credit type and amount. Proof of test results is required.

Ox-Bow is dedicated to providing students with the experience described in the catalog, but cannot guarantee the listed faculty. In the event that a faculty cannot instruct their class due to an emergency, a replacement of similar expertise will be provided. Faculty replacement does not make a student eligible for a refund.