Title 37, Education

The earned interest paid into the post-secondary education assistance fund as provided in Section 37-106-13 shall be utilized to finance the cost of administration of this chapter. All remaining interest after payment of such administrative expenses shall be utilized to provide a…

Any student desiring financial assistance shall submit an application to the board on an annual basis. The director shall adhere to the board’s rules and regulations promulgated under authority of this chapter in determining the eligibility of each applicant and in administering …

Each eligible applicant before being granted financial assistance through a forgivable loan program under this chapter shall enter into a contract with the board, which shall be deemed a contract with the State of Mississippi, agreeing to the terms and conditions upon which the f…

(a) Unless otherwise required to secure a guarantee of a loan, all funds disbursed under the provisions hereof shall be subject to the following conditions and limitations:(a) The annual award to any recipient may be paid as required by federal laws and regulations governing the …

The board shall use the funds available to make possible the implementation of a guaranteed student loan program as provided for by any act of congress.

The board shall have full authority to deal with the Student Loan Marketing Association (Sallie Mae) and to participate in any and all of its programs, including investment in its stock, and to deal with and to participate in any programs of any other secondary market for student…

(1) There is established the Mississippi Resident Tuition Assistance Grant Program for college or university freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors to be administered by the Mississippi Postsecondary Education Financial Assistance Board established under Section 37-106-9, Miss…

(1) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that:(a) By legislative enactment, programs are herein created wherein Mississippi residents are granted forgivable loans in certain professional fields in return for their contractual obligation to perform services in such profession…

(1) There is created a Mississippi Eminent Scholars Grant Program, to be administered by the Mississippi Postsecondary Education Financial Assistance Board established under Section 37-106-9. The board shall set the dates that will serve as the deadlines for applying for an award…

(1) There is established the “William F. Winter and Jack Reed, Sr., Teacher Loan Repayment Program.” (2) Subject to the availability of funds, an eligible applicant for an initial award must have:(a) Graduated from a baccalaureate degree-granting institution of higher learning wh…

(1) There is established the Mississippi Law Enforcement Officers and Firefighters Scholarship. (2) Except as provided in this section, if any Mississippi law enforcement officer, full-time firefighter or volunteer firefighter shall suffer or has suffered fatal injuries or wounds…

(1) If any member of the armed services, whose official house of record and residence is within the State of Mississippi, is officially reported as being either a prisoner of war or missing in action in Southeast Asia or has been a prisoner of a foreign government as the result o…

(1) There is hereby established an intern educational program to be designated as the Mississippi Public Management Graduate Intern Program to be administered by the board through a program coordinator. The program shall consist of not more than thirty-six (36) positions in the g…

(1) (a) The board is authorized and empowered to operate the following forgivable loan programs of like character, operation and purpose to the foregoing enumerated programs to encourage the participation of eligible worthy persons in courses of instruction in its institutions: G…

In connection with the forgivable loan programs administered by the board, and in addition to the funding of the same through the use of state funds, the board is authorized to establish a loan repayment mechanism employing agreements to repay private sector loans for education o…

(1) For purposes of this chapter, the following words shall be defined as follows unless the context requires otherwise:(a) “Eligible applicant or eligible student” means an individual who completes an application by the published application deadline for a given student financia…

The board is authorized to establish a consolidated revolving loan fund for the purpose of providing monies for the operation of all forgivable loan programs authorized to the board and for the purpose of providing monies for the operation of such other loan programs as may be de…

(1) Forgivable loans shall be made and based upon the following options for repayment or conversion to interest-free scholarships:(a) Payment in full of principal plus a penalty of five percent (5%) of the principal and interest on the combined principal and penalty must be made …

(1) There is hereby created the state medical forgivable loan program. The purpose of such program shall be to enable eligible applicants who desire to become physicians to obtain a medical education in the University of Mississippi School of Medicine, which will qualify them to …

(1) There is hereby created the state dental forgivable loan program. The purpose of the program shall be to enable eligible applicants who desire to become dentists to obtain a standard four-year education in the study of dentistry in the University of Mississippi School of Dent…

(1) There is established the “Skilled Nursing Home and Hospital Nurses Retention Loan Repayment Program” for nursing graduates to be administered by the Mississippi Postsecondary Education Financial Assistance Board. (2) Subject to the availability of funds, an eligible applicant…

The board, under such rules and regulations as it shall determine may provide forgivable loans for instruction in graduate and professional schools for qualified students, who are residents of Mississippi, in institutions outside the state boundaries, when such instruction is not…

(1) There is established a health care professions’ forgivable loan program. It is the intent of the Legislature that persons declaring an intention to work at certain state health institutions as nurses, nurse practitioners, speech pathologists, psychologists, occupational thera…

(1) There is established a forgivable loan program to encourage family protection workers employed by the Department of Child Protection Services to obtain the college education necessary to become licensed as a social worker, master social worker or certified social worker and b…

Any student desiring to study for the ministry or priesthood may attend a college, university or seminary outside the state provided there is no college, university or seminary serving his faith or doctrine in which he can study for the ministry in the State of Mississippi.

(1) There is established the Mississippi Dyslexia Education Forgivable Loan Program for the purpose of identifying and recruiting qualified university and college students from the state for schooling in education with a focus on dyslexia therapy. (2) The receipt of a forgivable …

(1) There is established a Speech-Language Pathologists Forgivable Loan Program. It is the intent of the Legislature that persons declaring an intention to work in an accredited public school (K-12), including a charter school, located in the State of Mississippi as a speech-lang…

(1) The Legislature hereby establishes the Higher Education Legislative Plan Grant Program. (2) For purposes of this section:(a) “Institution of higher education” shall mean any state institution of higher learning or public community or junior college, or any regionally accredit…

(1) This section shall be known and may be cited as the “State Representative Bill Kinkade Fostering Access and Inspiring True Hope (FAITH) Scholarship Program.” (2) As used in this section, the following terms shall have the meaning ascribed in this subsection, unless context of…

(1) There is established in the State Treasury a special fund to be designated as the “Kinkade Fostering Access and Inspiring True Hope (FAITH) Scholarship Program Fund.” The special fund shall consist of funds appropriated or otherwise made available by the Legislature in any ma…

(1) There is hereby created the Postsecondary Education Financial Assistance Board which shall consist of the following nine (9) members and two (2) nonvoting advisory members: two (2) people to be appointed by the Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning, one (…