Current through Register Vol. 51, No. 3, September 1, 2024
RELATES TO:
KRS
164.7894
NECESSITY, FUNCTION, AND CONFORMITY:
KRS
164.744(2) authorizes the
authority to provide scholarships.
KRS
164.7894(6) requires the
authority to promulgate administrative regulations as may be needed for the
administration of the program. This administrative regulation sets the
conditions for Kentucky Coal County College Completion Scholarship Program
eligibility for students simultaneously enrolled in two (2) or more
participating educational institutions.
Section
1. For purposes of the Kentucky Coal County College Completion
Scholarship Program, a student who is otherwise eligible pursuant to
11 KAR
20:010, except that the student is enrolled
simultaneously in two (2) or more educational institutions pursuing an eligible
program of study jointly offered by those institutions, shall be eligible under
this section if:
(1) The program of study is
covered by a consortium agreement between the educational
institutions;
(2) The student is
carrying a combined academic workload at all educational institutions in the
consortium equal to full-time enrollment at the primary institution;
and
(3) The primary institution is
the institution that the student indicated he or she would be attending at the
time the award under this program is made.
Section 2. Consortium Agreement. Two (2) or
more eligible educational institutions under the Kentucky Coal County College
Completion Scholarship Program, as either participating or nonparticipating
institutions, may, for purposes of Section 1 of this administrative regulation,
execute a consortium agreement which meets the following terms and conditions:
(1) The agreement shall be written and signed
by authorized representatives of each participating educational
institution;
(2) The agreement
shall designate which educational institution will serve as the primary
institution; and
(3) The agreement
shall specify:
(a) The tuition, fees, room
and board cost, and all other costs assessed to the student by each
institution; and
(b) That the
primary institution will perform the duties set forth in Section 3 of this
administrative regulation.
Section 3. Duties of Primary Institution. For
purposes of Section 2 of this administrative regulation, the primary
institution designated in a consortium agreement shall assume the following
duties and responsibilities:
(1) Counsel
students, who are enrolled or accepted for enrollment in programs of study
covered by the consortium agreement, concerning student eligibility, rights,
and responsibilities under the Kentucky Coal County College Completion
Scholarship Program;
(2) Maintain
all records, including information from all participating institutions about
the student's grades, institutional costs incurred, financial aid received,
enrollment, and all other information related to the student's eligibility as
is required to be maintained on any other scholarship recipient enrolled only
in the primary institution;
(3)
Disburse the Kentucky Coal County College Completion scholarship;
(4) Confer academic credit to the student for
all courses completed at other educational institutions under the consortium
agreement as if the courses had been provided by the primary
institution;
(5) Monitor the
student's enrollment status at all educational institutions in the consortium
and indicate the student's enrollment at the primary institution as the
equivalent of the combined enrollment at all educational institutions in the
consortium;
(6) Calculate any
refund or repayment and make any refund based on the primary institution's
refund policy, based upon any change in enrollment at any of the educational
institutions in the consortium, as if the student were enrolled only at the
primary institution; and
(7)
Provide to the authority, on behalf of all educational institutions in the
consortium, all reports and notifications required by
KRS
164.7894 and
11 KAR
20:010 through
11 KAR
20:060 as if the student were enrolled only at the
primary institution.
Section
4. The consortium agreement may contain any other terms and
conditions, not inconsistent with this administrative regulation, as may be
considered necessary or appropriate by the participating educational
institutions.
STATUTORY AUTHORITY:
KRS
164.744(2),
164.7894
