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.