What are the mandatory dining requirements for 2014-15?
What is the Campus Dining Fee?
What are meal plans?
What is Dining Dollars?
What is BlazerBucks?
Who is required to purchase a meal plan?
What meal plans are available for the 2014-15 academic year?
How can a student or employee select a meal plan?
How can a student or employee pay for a meal plan? Campus Dining Fee? BlazerBucks?
Which funds roll over from semester to semester? From year to year?
Can a student request exemption from meal plan participation?
Can a student request exemption from the Campus Dining Fee?
Can funds be added to a meal plan? Dining Dollars? BlazerBucks?
Which types of funds are refundable?
How does a cardholder request a refund?
At what point are funds in an inactive account forfeited?
Enrolled students living on campus or under a UAB contract with an off-campus property, and all undergraduate students
taking twelve (12) or more credit hours who do not reside on campus will be assessed a $225 Campus Dining Fee during
fall and spring semesters. Enrolled students living on campus or under a UAB contract with an off-campus property, are also
required to purchase a meal plan during fall and spring semesters. Students not residing on campus and UAB employees can elect to purchase
a meal plan during fall and spring semesters.
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The Campus Dining Fee was instituted for the purpose of generating revenue to
expand dining services at the University. The Campus Dining Fee will be assessed on the student
account. For 2014-15, the Campus Dining Fee is $225 during the fall and spring semesters, and will be assessed
to enrolled students living on campus or under a UAB contract with an off-campus property, and all undergraduate students taking
twelve (12) or more credit hours.
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Fall and Spring meal plans are a combination of Meals and Flex Dollars.
Meals can be used exclusively at the Commons on the Green, the University’s all-you-care-to-eat facility. One Meal is debited from the weekly allotment
upon entrance and the cardholder has unlimited access to all available items. Meals in the Blazer and Gold plans will be cleared each Sunday night and
reset the following morning. Meals are meal plan holder exclusive.
Flex Dollars is a declining balance account that can be used for purchases at all UAB dining facilities. The cost of the meal plan includes sales tax, so
tax will not be assessed on purchases made with Flex Dollars. At the conclusion of each semester any unused funds in Flex Dollars will be removed from the
student’s meal plan account the day after the last day of final exams.
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Dining Dollars is a declining balance account that can be used for purchases at all UAB dining facilities. Students
assessed the Campus Dining Fee during fall and spring semesters will access their funds through their Dining
Dollars account.
Enrolled students not assessed the Campus Dining Fee may elect to add $225 to their Dining Dollars account during fall and spring semesters.
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BlazerBucks is a declining balance account that can be used for goods and services anywhere the UAB ONE Card
is accepted. BlazerBucks accounts are available to students, faculty and staff and other individuals in possession of a UAB ONE Card.
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For the 2014-15 academic year all *freshmen living on campus will be required by the University to purchase a meal plan and must select either plan 1 through 3. All other students
living on campus or under a UAB contract with an off-campus property will be required by the University to purchase a meal plan and must select from plans 1 through 8.
*Freshmen are defined as first-year students who reside on
campus and meet the following criteria:
- Graduated high school within the last 4 academic years
- Entered UAB with less than 12 credit hours taken at another university after high school graduation
- Have not attended UAB during a previous academic year, excluding the summer term immediately preceding the academic year in question
Fall 2014 and Spring 2015 Meal Plans
The following meal plans are available for Fall 2014 and Spring 2015:
| Plan | Meals | Flex Dollars | Cost per Semester |
| Blazer 1 | 19 per week | $100 | $1,820 |
| Blazer 2 | 12 per week | $300 | $1,820 |
| Blazer 3 | 10 per week | $400 | $1,665 |
| Gold 4 | 7 per week | $200 | $1,070 |
| Gold 5 | 5 per week | $150 | $795 |
| Gold 6 | 3 per week | $125 | $600 |
| Green 7 | 25 per semester | $150 | $375 |
| Green 8 | 12 per semester | $25 | $150 |
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Students and employees can select a meal plan at www.uab.edu/campuscard
under the “Manage My Account” section. Students who are required to purchase a meal plan who do not make a selection by the
published deadline will be assigned the minimum required meal plan.
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Student payments for meal plans and the Campus Dining Fee can be made to the
Student Accounting Office in person in the Lister Hill Library Ground Floor 110,
by mail to UAB Student Accounting Services, LHL Ground Floor 110, 1720 2nd Avenue South, Birmingham, AL 35294-0013,
and online through BlazerNET.
Employees will be required to submit payment by credit/debit card when they select their meal plan to complete the ordering process. Employees
who prefer to pay by check can come to the Student Services office in SIH 220 to sign up and pay.
Deposits into BlazerBucks can be made by check in person in the Smolian International House room 220 or by mail to UAB Student Services, SIH 220, 1720
2nd Avenue South, Birmingham, AL 35294-1280. Deposits can also be made through a BlazerBucks Value Transfer Station, located in One Stop Student Services and Sterne
and Lister Hill Libraries via credit/debit card or cash, and pre-registerd and enrolled students and UAB employees can make deposits online at www.uab.edu/campuscard via credit/debit card.
University employees may also sign up for BlazerBucks payroll deduction online.
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Funds in the student’s Dining Dollars account will roll over during the terms included in one academic year (i.e. fall to spring to summer).
After the last class day of summer semester 25% of any remaining balance in a student’s Dining Dollars account will be converted to
BlazerBucks before the Dining Dollars account is cleared out in preparation for the upcoming academic year. Balances in BlazerBucks carry-over
from year to year until the cardholder graduates or otherwise permanently leaves the university. Meals and Flex Dollars do not roll over at the end of the semester.
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Campus resident students with dietary restrictions due to a disability or medical condition or with dietary restrictions based on
religious practices may apply for exemption from mandatory meal plan participation. In order to qualify for an exemption, students must
submit a Meal Plan Exemption Request Form and all required documentation to the Director for Academic and Student Service Operations no
later than the last day to drop/add. Exemption Request Forms can be picked up or requested by email from the following departments: One
Stop Services – onestop@uab.edu, UAB Student Services - campuscard@uab.edu, Campus Restaurants – uabdining@uab.edu, and Disability
Support Services – dss@uab.edu. After that point, mandatory meal plan charges will not be removed from the student account unless the
student is approved for withdrawal from the University by the UAB Office of Enrollment Management.
Campus residents who are approved for meal plan exemption will still be subject to the mandatory Campus Dining Fee unless they apply and
are approved for Dining Fee exemption. Students must re-apply for exemption prior to the beginning of each subsequent academic year.
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Campus resident students and all undergraduate students taking twelve (12) or more credit hours who do not reside on campus with dietary restrictions due to a disability or medical condition or with dietary restrictions based on
religious practices may apply for exemption from the Campus Dining Fee. In order to qualify for an exemption, students must
submit a Campus Dining Fee Exemption Request Form and all required documentation no later than the last day to drop/add. Exemption Request Forms can be picked up or requested by email from the following departments: One
Stop Services – onestop@uab.edu, UAB Student Services - campuscard@uab.edu, Campus Restaurants – uabdining@uab.edu, and Disability
Support Services – dss@uab.edu. After that point, mandatory Dining Fee charges will not be removed from the student account unless the
student is approved for withdrawal from the University by the UAB Office of Enrollment Management.
Campus residents who are approved for Dining Fee exemption will still be required to purchase a meal plan unless they apply and
are approved for meal plan exemption. Students must re-apply for exemption prior to the beginning of each subsequent academic year.
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Additional funds cannot be added to meal plan or Dining Dollars accounts. Individuals who wish to add additional funds
can do so through their BlazerBucks account; BlazerBucks requires no minimum deposit and additional funds can be
added at will.
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Refunds of any unused meal plan balances will be available until the last day to drop/add if a student 1) selected a non-mandatory
meal plan, 2) no longer meets mandatory meal plan requirements, or 3) withdraws from the University. After the last day to drop/add, refunds
of unused meal plan balances will be allowed only for students who are approved for withdrawal by the UAB Office of Enrollment Management
(e.g. military leave, medical withdrawal, etc.) Refunds based on approval by the Office of Enrollment Management must be requested within one year
of the student’s withdrawal from the University; after that time, unused meal plan balances become non-refundable.
Refunds of any unused Dining Dollars balance from the current semester will be available until the last day to drop/add if a student 1) no longer
meets mandatory Dining Fee requirements, or 2) withdraws from the University. After the last day to drop/add, refunds of unused Dining Dollar
balances from that semester will be allowed only for students who are approved for withdrawal by the UAB Office of Enrollment Management
(e.g. military leave, medical withdrawal, etc.) Refunds based on approval by the Office of Enrollment Management must be requested within one year
of the student’s withdrawal from the University; after that time, unused Dining Dollars balances become non-refundable.
Refund requests for unused BlazerBucks funds are accepted only after the cardholder leaves the University. Refund requests must be made within twelve months of the
cardholder’s withdrawal from the University.
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Approved Meal plan and Dining Dollarsrefunds are processed automatically by credit to the individual’s student account.
BlazerBucks refunds are processed only by request of the cardholder and can be submitted online at
campuscard.uab.edu under the “Manage My Account” section.
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Balances in UAB ONE Card accounts which remain inactive for a twelve (12) month consecutive period, and for
which no request for refund has been received, will be forfeited.
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