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| 178 | + | 1 (6) A modest, individually tailored tuition discount |
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| 179 | + | 2 can make the difference in a student choosing to attend |
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| 180 | + | 3 college and enhance college access for low-income and |
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| 181 | + | 4 middle-income families. |
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| 182 | + | 5 (7) Even if the federally calculated financial need |
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| 183 | + | 6 for college attendance is met, the federally determined |
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| 184 | + | 7 Expected Family Contribution can still be a daunting |
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| 185 | + | 8 amount. |
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| 186 | + | 9 (8) This State is the second largest exporter of |
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| 187 | + | 10 students in the country. |
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| 188 | + | 11 (9) When talented Illinois students attend |
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| 189 | + | 12 universities in this State, the State and those |
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| 190 | + | 13 universities benefit. |
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| 191 | + | 14 (10) State universities in other states have adopted |
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| 192 | + | 15 pricing and incentives that allow many Illinois residents |
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| 193 | + | 16 to pay less to attend an out-of-state university than to |
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| 194 | + | 17 remain in this State for college. |
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| 195 | + | 18 (11) Supporting Illinois student attendance at |
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| 196 | + | 19 Illinois public universities can assist in State efforts |
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| 197 | + | 20 to maintain and educate a highly trained workforce. |
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| 198 | + | 21 (12) Modest tuition discounts that are individually |
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| 199 | + | 22 targeted and tailored can result in enhanced revenue for |
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| 200 | + | 23 public universities. |
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| 201 | + | 24 (13) By increasing a public university's capacity to |
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| 202 | + | 25 strategically use tuition discounting, the public |
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| 203 | + | 26 university will be capable of creating enhanced tuition |
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| 214 | + | 1 revenue by increasing enrollment yields. |
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| 215 | + | 2 (b) In this Section: |
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| 216 | + | 3 "Eligible applicant" means a student from any high school |
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| 217 | + | 4 in this State, whether or not recognized by the State Board of |
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| 218 | + | 5 Education, who is engaged in a program of study that in due |
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| 219 | + | 6 course will be completed by the end of the school year and who |
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| 220 | + | 7 meets all of the qualifications and requirements under this |
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| 221 | + | 8 Section. |
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| 222 | + | 9 "Tuition and other necessary fees" includes the customary |
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| 223 | + | 10 charge for instruction and use of facilities in general and |
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| 224 | + | 11 the additional fixed fees charged for specified purposes that |
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| 225 | + | 12 are required generally of non-grant recipients for each |
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| 226 | + | 13 academic period for which the grant applicant actually |
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| 227 | + | 14 enrolls, but does not include fees payable only once or |
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| 228 | + | 15 breakage fees and other contingent deposits that are |
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| 229 | + | 16 refundable in whole or in part. The Commission may adopt, by |
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| 230 | + | 17 rule not inconsistent with this Section, detailed provisions |
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| 231 | + | 18 concerning the computation of tuition and other necessary |
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| 232 | + | 19 fees. |
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| 233 | + | 20 (c) Beginning with the 2019-2020 academic year, each |
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| 234 | + | 21 public university may establish a merit-based scholarship |
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| 235 | + | 22 pilot program known as the AIM HIGH Grant Pilot Program. Each |
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| 236 | + | 23 year, the Commission shall receive and consider applications |
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| 237 | + | 24 from public universities under this Section. Subject to |
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| 238 | + | 25 appropriation and any tuition waiver limitation established by |
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| 239 | + | 26 the Board of Higher Education, a public university campus may |
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| 250 | + | 1 award a grant to a student under this Section if it finds that |
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| 251 | + | 2 the applicant meets all of the following criteria: |
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| 252 | + | 3 (1) He or she is a resident of this State and a citizen |
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| 253 | + | 4 or eligible noncitizen of the United States. |
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| 254 | + | 5 (2) He or she files a Free Application for Federal |
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| 255 | + | 6 Student Aid and demonstrates financial need with a |
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| 256 | + | 7 household income no greater than 6 times the poverty |
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| 257 | + | 8 guidelines updated periodically in the Federal Register by |
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| 258 | + | 9 the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under the |
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| 259 | + | 10 authority of 42 U.S.C. 9902(2). The household income of |
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| 260 | + | 11 the applicant at the time of initial application shall be |
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| 261 | + | 12 deemed to be the household income of the applicant for the |
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| 262 | + | 13 duration of the pilot program. |
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| 263 | + | 14 (3) He or she meets the minimum cumulative grade point |
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| 264 | + | 15 average or ACT or SAT college admissions test score, as |
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| 265 | + | 16 determined by the public university campus. |
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| 266 | + | 17 (4) He or she is enrolled in a public university as an |
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| 267 | + | 18 undergraduate student on a full-time basis. |
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| 268 | + | 19 (5) He or she has not yet received a baccalaureate |
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| 269 | + | 20 degree or the equivalent of 135 semester credit hours. |
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| 270 | + | 21 (6) (Blank). He or she is not incarcerated. |
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| 271 | + | 22 (7) He or she is not in default on any student loan or |
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| 272 | + | 23 does not owe a refund or repayment on any State or federal |
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| 273 | + | 24 grant or scholarship. |
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| 274 | + | 25 (8) Any other reasonable criteria, as determined by |
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| 275 | + | 26 the public university campus. |
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| 286 | + | 1 (d) Each public university campus shall determine grant |
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| 287 | + | 2 renewal criteria consistent with the requirements under this |
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| 288 | + | 3 Section. |
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| 289 | + | 4 (e) Each participating public university campus shall post |
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| 290 | + | 5 on its Internet website criteria and eligibility requirements |
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| 291 | + | 6 for receiving awards that use funds under this Section that |
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| 292 | + | 7 include a range in the sizes of these individual awards. The |
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| 293 | + | 8 criteria and amounts must also be reported to the Commission |
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| 294 | + | 9 and the Board of Higher Education, who shall post the |
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| 295 | + | 10 information on their respective Internet websites. |
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| 296 | + | 11 (f) After enactment of an appropriation for this Program, |
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| 297 | + | 12 the Commission shall determine an allocation of funds to each |
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| 298 | + | 13 public university in an amount proportionate to the number of |
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| 299 | + | 14 undergraduate students who are residents of this State and |
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| 300 | + | 15 citizens or eligible noncitizens of the United States and who |
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| 301 | + | 16 were enrolled at each public university campus in the previous |
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| 302 | + | 17 academic year. All applications must be made to the Commission |
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| 303 | + | 18 on or before a date determined by the Commission and on forms |
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| 304 | + | 19 that the Commission shall provide to each public university |
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| 305 | + | 20 campus. The form of the application and the information |
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| 306 | + | 21 required shall be determined by the Commission and shall |
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| 307 | + | 22 include, without limitation, the total public university |
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| 308 | + | 23 campus funds used to match funds received from the Commission |
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| 309 | + | 24 in the previous academic year under this Section, if any, the |
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| 310 | + | 25 total enrollment of undergraduate students who are residents |
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| 311 | + | 26 of this State from the previous academic year, and any |
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| 322 | + | 1 supporting documents as the Commission deems necessary. Each |
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| 323 | + | 2 public university campus shall match the amount of funds |
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| 324 | + | 3 received by the Commission with financial aid for eligible |
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| 325 | + | 4 students. |
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| 326 | + | 5 A public university in which an average of at least 49% of |
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| 327 | + | 6 the students seeking a bachelor's degree or certificate |
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| 328 | + | 7 received a Pell Grant over the prior 3 academic years, as |
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| 329 | + | 8 reported to the Commission, shall match 20% of the amount of |
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| 330 | + | 9 funds awarded in a given academic year with non-loan financial |
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| 331 | + | 10 aid for eligible students. A public university in which an |
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| 332 | + | 11 average of less than 49% of the students seeking a bachelor's |
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| 333 | + | 12 degree or certificate received a Pell Grant over the prior 3 |
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| 334 | + | 13 academic years, as reported to the Commission, shall match 60% |
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| 335 | + | 14 of the amount of funds awarded in a given academic year with |
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| 336 | + | 15 non-loan financial aid for eligible students. |
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| 337 | + | 16 A public university campus is not required to claim its |
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| 338 | + | 17 entire allocation. The Commission shall make available to all |
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| 339 | + | 18 public universities, on a date determined by the Commission, |
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| 340 | + | 19 any unclaimed funds and the funds must be made available to |
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| 341 | + | 20 those public university campuses in the proportion determined |
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| 342 | + | 21 under this subsection (f), excluding from the calculation |
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| 343 | + | 22 those public university campuses not claiming their full |
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| 344 | + | 23 allocations. |
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| 345 | + | 24 Each public university campus may determine the award |
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| 346 | + | 25 amounts for eligible students on an individual or broad basis, |
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| 347 | + | 26 but, subject to renewal eligibility, each renewed award may |
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| 358 | + | 1 not be less than the amount awarded to the eligible student in |
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| 359 | + | 2 his or her first year attending the public university campus. |
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| 360 | + | 3 Notwithstanding this limitation, a renewal grant may be |
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| 361 | + | 4 reduced due to changes in the student's cost of attendance, |
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| 362 | + | 5 including, but not limited to, if a student reduces the number |
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| 363 | + | 6 of credit hours in which he or she is enrolled, but remains a |
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| 364 | + | 7 full-time student, or switches to a course of study with a |
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| 365 | + | 8 lower tuition rate. |
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| 366 | + | 9 An eligible applicant awarded grant assistance under this |
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| 367 | + | 10 Section is eligible to receive other financial aid. Total |
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| 368 | + | 11 grant aid to the student from all sources may not exceed the |
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| 369 | + | 12 total cost of attendance at the public university campus. |
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| 370 | + | 13 (g) All money allocated to a public university campus |
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| 371 | + | 14 under this Section may be used only for financial aid purposes |
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| 372 | + | 15 for students attending the public university campus during the |
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| 373 | + | 16 academic year, not including summer terms. Notwithstanding any |
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| 374 | + | 17 other provision of law to the contrary, any funds received by a |
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| 375 | + | 18 public university campus under this Section that are not |
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| 376 | + | 19 granted to students in the academic year for which the funds |
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| 377 | + | 20 are received may be retained by the public university campus |
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| 378 | + | 21 for expenditure on students participating in the Program or |
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| 379 | + | 22 students eligible to participate in the Program. |
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| 380 | + | 23 (h) Each public university campus that establishes a |
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| 381 | + | 24 Program under this Section must annually report to the |
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| 382 | + | 25 Commission, on or before a date determined by the Commission, |
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| 383 | + | 26 the number of undergraduate students enrolled at that campus |
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| 394 | + | 1 who are residents of this State. |
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| 395 | + | 2 (i) Each public university campus must report to the |
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| 396 | + | 3 Commission the total non-loan financial aid amount given by |
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| 397 | + | 4 the public university campus to undergraduate students in the |
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| 398 | + | 5 2017-2018 academic year, not including the summer term. To be |
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| 399 | + | 6 eligible to receive funds under the Program, a public |
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| 400 | + | 7 university campus may not decrease the total amount of |
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| 401 | + | 8 non-loan financial aid it gives to undergraduate students, not |
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| 402 | + | 9 including any funds received from the Commission under this |
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| 403 | + | 10 Section or any funds used to match grant awards under this |
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| 404 | + | 11 Section, to an amount lower than the reported amount for the |
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| 405 | + | 12 2017-2018 academic year, not including the summer term. |
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| 406 | + | 13 (j) On or before a date determined by the Commission, each |
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| 407 | + | 14 public university campus that participates in the Program |
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| 408 | + | 15 under this Section shall annually submit a report to the |
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| 409 | + | 16 Commission with all of the following information: |
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| 410 | + | 17 (1) The Program's impact on tuition revenue and |
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| 411 | + | 18 enrollment goals and increase in access and affordability |
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| 412 | + | 19 at the public university campus. |
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| 413 | + | 20 (2) Total funds received by the public university |
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| 414 | + | 21 campus under the Program. |
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| 415 | + | 22 (3) Total non-loan financial aid awarded to |
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| 416 | + | 23 undergraduate students attending the public university |
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| 417 | + | 24 campus. |
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| 418 | + | 25 (4) Total amount of funds matched by the public |
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| 419 | + | 26 university campus. |
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| 430 | + | 1 (5) Total amount of claimed and unexpended funds |
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| 431 | + | 2 retained by the public university campus. |
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| 432 | + | 3 (6) The percentage of total financial aid distributed |
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| 433 | + | 4 under the Program by the public university campus. |
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| 434 | + | 5 (7) The total number of students receiving grants from |
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| 435 | + | 6 the public university campus under the Program and those |
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| 436 | + | 7 students' grade level, race, gender, income level, family |
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| 437 | + | 8 size, Monetary Award Program eligibility, Pell Grant |
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| 438 | + | 9 eligibility, and zip code of residence and the amount of |
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| 439 | + | 10 each grant award. This information shall include unit |
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| 440 | + | 11 record data on those students regarding variables |
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| 441 | + | 12 associated with the parameters of the public university's |
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| 442 | + | 13 Program, including, but not limited to, a student's ACT or |
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| 443 | + | 14 SAT college admissions test score, high school or |
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| 444 | + | 15 university cumulative grade point average, or program of |
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| 445 | + | 16 study. |
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| 446 | + | 17 On or before October 1, 2020 and annually on or before |
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| 447 | + | 18 October 1 thereafter, the Commission shall submit a report |
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| 448 | + | 19 with the findings under this subsection (j) and any other |
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| 449 | + | 20 information regarding the AIM HIGH Grant Pilot Program to (i) |
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| 450 | + | 21 the Governor, (ii) the Speaker of the House of |
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| 451 | + | 22 Representatives, (iii) the Minority Leader of the House of |
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| 452 | + | 23 Representatives, (iv) the President of the Senate, and (v) the |
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| 453 | + | 24 Minority Leader of the Senate. The reports to the General |
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| 454 | + | 25 Assembly shall be filed with the Clerk of the House of |
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| 455 | + | 26 Representatives and the Secretary of the Senate in electronic |
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| 467 | + | 2 direct. The Commission's report may not disaggregate data to a |
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| 468 | + | 3 level that may disclose personally identifying information of |
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| 469 | + | 4 individual students. |
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| 470 | + | 5 The sharing and reporting of student data under this |
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| 471 | + | 6 subsection (j) must be in accordance with the requirements |
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| 472 | + | 7 under the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of |
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| 473 | + | 8 1974 and the Illinois School Student Records Act. All parties |
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| 474 | + | 9 must preserve the confidentiality of the information as |
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| 475 | + | 10 required by law. The names of the grant recipients under this |
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| 476 | + | 11 Section are not subject to disclosure under the Freedom of |
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| 477 | + | 12 Information Act. |
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| 478 | + | 13 Public university campuses that fail to submit a report |
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| 479 | + | 14 under this subsection (j) or that fail to adhere to any other |
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| 480 | + | 15 requirements under this Section may not be eligible for |
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| 481 | + | 16 distribution of funds under the Program for the next academic |
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| 482 | + | 17 year, but may be eligible for distribution of funds for each |
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| 483 | + | 18 academic year thereafter. |
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| 484 | + | 19 (k) The Commission shall adopt rules to implement this |
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| 485 | + | 20 Section. |
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| 486 | + | 21 (l) This Section is repealed on October 1, 2024. |
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| 487 | + | 22 (Source: P.A. 100-587, eff. 6-4-18; 100-1015, eff. 8-21-18; |
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| 488 | + | 23 100-1183, eff. 4-4-19; 101-81, eff. 7-12-19; 101-613, eff. |
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| 489 | + | 24 6-1-20; 101-643, eff. 6-18-20; 101-654, eff. 3-8-21.) |
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