(A) Authority
This rule is established by authority conferred upon the
chancellor of the Ohio board of regents
department of higher education by section
3333.72 of the Revised
Code.
(B) Policy and intent
The purpose of the Ohio co-op/internship program is to promote
and encourage cooperative education programs and internship programs at Ohio
institutions of higher education for the purpose of recruiting Ohio students to
stay in the state and attracting back to Ohio students who left to attend
out-of-state institutions of higher education, to participate in high quality
academic programs that use cooperative education programs or significant
internship programs. Such participation supports the growth of Ohio's business
by providing them with talented students and an experienced potential
workforce, and providing Ohio graduates with job opportunities with Ohio
companies and organizations.
(C) Definitions
(1) "Cooperative education program" means a
partnership between students, institutions of higher education, and employers
that formally integrates students' academic study with work experience in
cooperating employer organizations and that meets all of the following
conditions:
(a) Alternates or combines periods
of academic study and work experience in appropriate fields as an integral part
of student education;
(b) Provides
students with compensation from the cooperative employer in the form of wages
or salaries for work preformed
performed;
(c) Evaluates each participating student's
performance in the cooperative position, both from the perspective of the
student's institution of higher education and the student's cooperative
employer;
(d) Provides
participating students with academic credit from the institution of higher
education upon successful completion of their cooperative education;
and
(e) Is part of an overall degree or
certificate program for which a percentage of the total program acceptable to
the chancellor of the Ohio board of
regents
department of higher education
involves cooperative education.
(2) "Internship program" means a partnership
between students, institutions of higher education, and employers that formally
integrates students' academic study with work or community service experience
and that does both of the following:
(a)
Offers internships of specified and
and definite duration; and
(b)
Evaluates each participating student's performance in the internship position,
both from the perspective of the student's institution of higher education and
the student's internship employer.
An internship program may provide participating students with
academic credit upon successful completion of the internship, and may provide
students with compensation in the form of wages or salaries, stipends, or
scholarships.
(3) "Eligible institution" means a state
institution of higher education or a nonpublic
nonprofit
university or college collaborating with a state institution of higher
education.
(4) "Nonpublic
Nonprofit
university or college" means a nonprofit institution holding a certificate of
authorization issued under Chapter 1713. of the Revised Code.
(5) "State institution of higher education"
means the university of Akron, Bowling Green state university, Central state
university, university of Cincinnati, Cleveland state university, Kent state
university, Miami university, Ohio university, Ohio state university, Shawnee
state university, university of Toledo, Wright state university, Youngstown
state university, the northeastern Ohio universities
college of medicine
northeast Ohio medical
university, any community college, any state community college, any
university branch established under Chapter 3355. of the Revised Code, or any
technical college.
(6) "Advisory
committee" means the co-op/internship advisory committee created pursuant to
section 3333.731 of the Revised
Code.
(7) "Chancellor" means the
chancellor of the Ohio board of regents
department of higher education.
(8) "Controlling board" means the entity
established pursuant to section
127.12 of the Revised
Code.
(D) Requests for
proposals
(1) The chancellor shall prescribe
a competitive process for making awards under this program to eligible
institutions. The process shall include the periodic issuance of a request for
proposals to all or any segment of the eligible institutions. Prior to the
issuance of any request for proposals, the chancellor shall seek the advice of
the advisory committee.
(2) The
forms that will be used in the proposal process shall be prescribed by the
chancellor and made available each time a request for proposals is issued. The
requests for proposals process shall be published on the Ohio
board of regents
department of higher education
web page
website, located at
www.regents.ohio.govwww.ohiohighered.ohio.gov/omic.
(3) Any request for proposals for the Ohio
co-op/internship program shall include:
(a)
Instructions for submitting a proposal, including the timelines for proposals,
the required format and any specific forms to be used in the
proposal;
(b) Eligibility
requirements for submitting a proposal;
(c) Instructions for submitting information
demonstrating that the pledge of private funds required pursuant to section
3333.74 of the Revised Code will
be met, or that the institution is requesting a waiver of the requirement.
Section
3333.74 of the Revised Code
requires a pledge of private funds equal to the following:
(i) In the case of a program, initiative, or
scholarships for undergraduate students, at least one hundred per cent of the
money awarded;
(ii) In the case of
a program, initiative, or scholarships for graduate students, at least one
hundred fifty per cent of the money award.
(d) A description of the criteria that will
be used to evaluate submitted proposals;
(e) A description of procedures that will be
used to select the award recipients; and
(f)
Any special conditions or requirements that may accompany an award of
funds.
(E)
Proposal review and program awards
The chancellor shall review each proposal submitted in response
to each request for proposals. Proposals received by entities deemed to be
ineligible to submit proposals as defined in the request for proposals shall
not be reviewed. The review of proposals shall include, but not be limited to,
the consideration of one or more of the criteria specified in section
3333.73 of the Revised
Code.
The chancellor shall seek the advice of the advisory committee
prior to deciding on awards to submit to the controlling board for approval.
The chancellor shall also seek the advice of the advisory committee subsequent
to deciding awards but prior to submitting them to the controlling
board.
The chancellor shall notify each lead, or co-lead, applicant of
the decision concerning each respective proposal.
(F) Waiver of pledge of private funds
Any request for a waiver of the pledge of private funds
required pursuant to section
3333.74 of the Revised Code
included in any proposal shall be reviewed by the chancellor with the advisory
committee. After such review, if the chancellor determines that exceptional
circumstances do not exist, the waiver request shall be denied. If the
chancellor determines that exceptional circumstances do exist, the chancellor
may waive, in whole or in part, the requirement and shall provide to the
controlling board as part of the request for approval of the award, an
explanation for the waiver.
(G) Award requirements
(1) Any recipient of an Ohio co-op/internship
award granted by the chancellor and approved by the controlling board shall
enter into a grant agreement with the chancellor governing the use of the
award.
(2) Any recipient of an Ohio
co-op/internship award granted by the chancellor and approved by the
controlling board shall be required to provide the chancellor with periodic
program and fiscal reports as provided in the grant agreement.
(3) Award recipients shall agree to maintain
financial and non-financial records documenting the activities of the funded
program. Such records shall be subject to inspection and review at the
discretion of the chancellor to ensure fiscal accountability, operating
progress, and desired outcomes. The chancellor may require an award recipient
that violates the terms of its agreement to repay the award plus interest at
the rate required by section
5703.47 of the Revised Code. A
decision of the chancellor to require such repayment shall be final.
(4) Award recipients shall agree to
participate in any common marketing or branding strategy that may be specified
by the chancellor for program awardees.
