Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 12, March 20, 2024
(a) Authority. The provisions contained
within this regulation are made pursuant to authority granted to the Higher
Education Services Corporation in sections
653,
655, and
679-c of the Education Law.
(b) Definitions. Faculty means a position
that is primarily teaching, rather than administrative or research.
(c) Eligibility. In addition to those
requirements already provided in sections
661 and
679-c of the Education Law, these
additional requirements shall apply in the selection of the program recipients:
(1) applications for the Senator Patricia K.
McGee Nursing Faculty Scholarship shall be postmarked or electronically
transmitted no later than July 1st of each year, provided that this deadline
may be extended at the discretion of the corporation;
(2) applications shall be filed annually on
forms prescribed by the corporation;
(3) the pool of applicants shall be those who
have successfully met the filing deadline;
(4) the applicant shall have been accepted
into a master's level nursing faculty preparation program at an accredited
nursing school, or in a doctoral program that will qualify the applicant as
nursing faculty or adjunct clinical faculty, in the State of New York, at the
time of application. The corporation will waive the requirement that the
applicant be accepted into a "nursing faculty preparation program" until such
time as the commissioner approves programs with curriculum that comprises a
"nursing faculty preparation program";
(5) first priority shall be given to
applicants who have received payment of an award pursuant to section
679-c of the Education Law in the prior
academic year;
(6) the applicant
shall have a grade point average of 3.0 or higher if the applicant has already
completed a semester in either a master's degree program in nursing, or in a
doctoral program that will qualify the applicant for nursing faculty or adjunct
clinical faculty; and
(7) the
following formula shall be used in determining award recipients:
(i) on a 4.0 scale, the applicant's final
grade point average received from the undergraduate nursing program where the
applicant received a diploma or degree in professional nursing;
(ii) on a 4.0 scale, the applicant's final
grade point average received from the nursing program where the applicant
received a master's degree in a nursing or nurse faculty curriculum;
(iii) on a 4.0 scale, the applicant's current
grade point average, provided that the applicant has already completed a
semester in a master's degree program in nursing, or a semester in a doctoral
program that will qualify the applicant for nursing faculty or adjunct clinical
faculty; and
(iv) on a scale of
0-10 for experience as a licensed registered professional nurse, where:
(a) 0 equals less than one year
experience;
(b) 2 equals one to
three years of experience;
(c) 5
equals three to five years of experience;
(d) 8 equals five to seven years of
experience; and
(e) 10 equals
greater than seven years of experience;
(v) the corporation shall add the points from
subparagraphs (i), (ii), (iii), and (iv) of this paragraph and then rank the
eligible candidates based upon highest scores;
(vi) tie scores shall be decided by lottery,
as determined by the corporation. The lottery shall be conducted by random
selection;
(8)
successful applicants shall execute a service contract prescribed by the
corporation.
(d)
Disqualifications. The applicant shall be disqualified from receiving a
scholarship award for any of the following conditions:
(1) the applicant has a service obligation to
the State of New York or another entity; or
(2) the applicant is in default on a
federally guaranteed student loan or State loan or has defaulted on any prior
service obligation.
(e)
Amounts.
(1) The amount of the scholarship
award shall be determined in accordance with section
679-c of the Education Law.
(2) Disbursements shall be made each semester
and pro-rated by credit hour.
(3)
Scholarship awards shall be reduced by the value of other scholarships and
grants.
(f) Penalty.
(1) The scholarship award monies received
shall be converted to a 10-year student loan plus interest for recipients who
fail to complete their education or who fail to complete their service in the
allotted time.
(2) Interest for the
life of the loan shall be fixed, and equal to that published annually by the
U.S. Department of Education for Federal Family Education Loan Program PLUS
loans at the time the service contract was signed.
(3) Interest shall begin to accrue on the day
the award money was first disbursed to the school and/or recipient.
(4) Interest shall be capitalized on the day
the scholarship award recipient violates the service contract or on the date
the corporation deems the recipient was no longer able or willing to perform
the terms of the service contract.
(5) The corporation may in its discretion
waive a portion of the repayment of a scholarship award that is commensurate
with service completed.