Tuition for Winter Courses

2025 Session
In-person: January 5 - 18, 2025 \\ Online: January 3 - 16, 2025

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 20 by 12:00 a.m. EST/11:00 p.m. CST. 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.

Ox-Bow Need Based Scholarship
This scholarship is available to students enrolling in an Ox-Bow class who demonstrate financial need.  Applications for this scholarship are informational, not portfolio based, and are reviewed by the Ox-Bow Scholarship Committee on a rolling basis.

Students interested in a Need Based Scholarship should submit the application by Sunday, October 20 by 12:00 a.m EST/11:00 p.m. CST. Awards will be communicated to the student at least one-week prior to open registration.

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.

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 18.

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
If a student drops their course from the time of registration until four weeks before the start of their class they will receive a tuition and room & board refund minus a $350 drop fee. If a student drops within four weeks of the start date of their class, no refunds will be given. 

Requests to drop must be submitted in writing to the Ox-Bow registrar via email (oxbow@ox-bow.org) by 4:00 p.m. on the last day of the drop period. It is not possible to drop an Ox-Bow class through the SAIC Self Service, through the SAIC registrar, or to use scholarships granted by Ox-Bow to cover the costs of drop fees.

Students who register for an Ox-Bow class assume the risk that they may need to leave Ox-Bow due to testing positive for respiratory or other illnesses and are encouraged to consider insurance options. Ox-Bow does not provide refunds for students who leave campus prior to the completion of their course for any reason.

Ox-Bow is dedicated to providing students with the experience described in the catalog, but cannot guarantee the listed faculty. In the rare 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.