Washington Administrative Code

Scholarship participants are ineligible to receive loan repayment if they have received a scholarship from this program or the nurses conditional scholarship (chapter 28B.104 RCW) or rural physician, pharmacist, and midwife scholarship programs (chapter 70.180 RCW). Loan repaymen…

Applicants will be selected for participation in the health professional loan repayment and scholarship program based upon criteria that shall include but not be limited to the following:(1) Applicant training. The individual's training is in a health profession or specialty need…

The annual award amount for each credentialed health care profession shall be based upon an assessment by the board, in consultation with the advisory committee, of reasonable annual eligible expenses and loan indebtedness incurred in training and education for each credentialed …

As part of the award procedure, each participant must sign an agreement with the board which serves as the legal document verifying the participant's understanding of the obligation to serve for no less than three years and no more than five years in a shortage area or repay the …

Participants in the health professional loan repayment and scholarship program incur an obligation to serve for no less than three years and no more than five years in a shortage area in return for financial support in the form of loan repayments and/or scholarships to attend sch…

Participants who have been accepted in the health professional loan repayment and scholarship program may request in writing a review of any adverse decision affecting them by requesting such review within twenty days of adverse decision, addressed to the executive director of th…

The purpose of the program is to provide Washington residents with educational opportunities, otherwise unavailable to them, through preferential consideration for enrollment in institutions outside the state of Washington and through reduced obligations for tuition payments. Suc…

(1) The program shall be administered in accordance with these rules and regulations and with guidelines established by the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, the coordinating agency for the thirteen member states comprising the Western Regional Educational Compa…

(1) "Budgetary cost" shall consist of that amount required to support an individual as a student, taking into consideration cost factors for maintaining the student's dependents. Budgets will reflect the latest recognized cost levels for room and board, transportation, books, sup…

(1) Student eligibility.(a) A student certified to receive assistance through this program must meet Washington residency requirements. Residency requirements must have been satisfied by the application deadline.(b) Each student must make separate application to an eligible parti…

The amount of the award for each recipient will be equal to the level of support fees established by the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education.[Order 6-77, § 250-28-080, filed 9/6/77.]

(1) WICHE award recipients selected after January 1, 1995, shall receive tuition assistance in the form of loans. Recipients shall repay those loans under the following conditions, unless the loan is forgiven under (2) of this section.(a) The recipient shall begin repaying the lo…

Recipients of WICHE support may request in writing a review of any adverse decision affecting them by requesting such review within twenty days of notification of adverse decision, addressed to the executive director of the higher education coordinating board. The review shall be…

(1) "Blind student" shall be defined as a person who (a) is unable to read because of defective eyesight and (b) is qualified for admission to an institution of postsecondary education within the state by reason of studies previously pursued.(2) The term "domicile" shall denote a…

(1) Benefits of this program shall be limited to blind students as defined in RCW 28B.10.210. So that eligibility may be determined in compliance with the provisions therein prescribed, the following evidence shall be required.(a) Inability to read because of defective eyesight. …

(1) Financial assistance. A blind student who qualifies for benefits of this program shall be entitled to financial assistance in an amount not to exceed two hundred dollars per quarter, or so much thereof as may be necessary, the exact amount of the allocation to be determined i…

(1) Purpose. Funds appropriated to the council for postsecondary education to carry out this program shall be allocated to eligible blind students for the purpose of providing said blind students with readers, books, recordings, recorders, or other means of reproducing and impart…

(1) Before an application for benefits under this program is approved, the institution which the applicant attends must:(a) Notify the council for postsecondary education that the applicant has been admitted to that institution for purposes of pursuing a program of studies for a …

(1) The executive coordinator or his or her designee is authorized to act for the council for postsecondary education in receiving, examining and approving applications consistent with statutory provisions, rules and regulations and such other requirements as the executive coordi…

The purpose of this act is to provide financial assistance to needy students, including needy students from middle-income families, attending eligible postsecondary institutions in the state of Washington by stimulating and promoting their employment; and to provide such needy st…

(1) "Financial need" shall be the difference between the budgetary cost to the student attending an institution of postsecondary education and the total family contribution which the institutional financial aid administrator determines can reasonably be expected to be available t…

(1) Eligibility criteria. In order to be eligible for employment under this program the student must:(a) Demonstrate financial need.(b) Be enrolled or accepted for enrollment as at least a half-time undergraduate, graduate or professional student or be a student under an establis…

(1) Displacement of employees. Employment of state work-study students may not result in displacement of employed workers or impair existing contracts for services.(a) State work-study students employed by public institutions of postsecondary education may not fill positions curr…

(1) Application. Institutions shall annually apply for and document campus need for student employment funds.(2) Institutional reserve of funds. The board shall annually develop a reserve of funds for the body of students at each eligible participating institution. Institutions w…

With the assistance of an advisory committee, the higher education coordinating board shall administer the work-study program. The staff of the higher education coordinating board under the direction of the executive director will manage the administrative functions relative to t…

Effective January 27, 1978, the council for postsecondary education was designated, by Executive Order 78-2, the state approving agency for academic schools, colleges and universities, both public and private, pursuant to Public Law 89-358 (Title 38, U.S. Code, subsection 1771(a)…

As the state approving agency, the council for postsecondary education is responsible, for inspection and supervision, in connection with federal veterans education requirements, of academic institutions operating in Washington and for determining those courses of study which may…

In reviewing institutions accredited by an agency or association included on the list of nationally recognized accrediting agencies or associations, published by the United States Commissioner of Education, the council for postsecondary education shall apply the standards contain…

In reviewing institutions not accredited by an agency or association included on the list of nationally recognized accrediting agencies or associations, published by the United States Commissioner of Education, the council for postsecondary education shall apply the standards con…

The policies observed and the procedures followed by the council for postsecondary education in discharging its responsibilities as state approving agency shall be those published and distributed to all affected institutions in the policies and procedures manual for the Veterans …

The purpose of the teacher incentive loan program for teachers of mathematics and science is to provide financial support in the form of long-term educational loans to applicants with demonstrated academic competency and financial need who intend to pursue a teaching career in ma…

The higher education coordinating board (HECB) is charged with the administration of the teacher incentive loan program for teachers of mathematics and science. When a responsibility of the HECB or board is referenced in these regulations, the authority needed to discharge that r…

(1) Initial eligibility. For a student to receive a mathematics/science loan, he or she must:(a) Be a "needy student" as defined by the higher education coordinating board;(b) Be a resident of Washington [as defined in WAC 250-18-010 through 250-18-060];(c) Be enrolled or accepte…

For an institution of higher education to be eligible to participate in the mathematics/science loan program, the institution must:(1) Be a college or university in the state of Washington which is a member institution of an accrediting association recognized as such by rule of t…

In order to participate in the program a postsecondary institution must annually file an "agreement to participate" [supplying the following information: Name and address of school (including central office and all campus sites), the date on which the school officially began inst…

(1) Financial aid terms:(a) "Needy student" shall mean a post-high school student of an institution of postsecondary education who demonstrates to the board the financial inability, either parental, familial, or personal, to bear the total cost of education for any semester or qu…

(1) Student. In order to be eligible for a mathematics/science loan, a student must:(a) Meet all program eligibility requirements as established by program regulations and guidelines.(b) Submit annually, in accordance with institutional and board deadlines, a completed mathematic…

(1) General. The higher education coordinating board is responsible for the disbursement of loan funds to individual students under the mathematics/science loan program. As warrants will be made payable to the individual students, no transfer of funds to participating postseconda…

The board is responsible for collection of loans made and shall exercise due diligence in such collection to ensure that maximum repayments are made. The board is responsible to forgive all or parts of such loans under the criteria established in these rules and regulations.Recei…

(1) General. In order to be granted loan forgiveness in lieu of repayment, a borrower, for each repayment period for which forgiveness is sought, must:(a) Be teaching in an eligible Washington public school.(b) Be teaching qualifying mathematics/science courses equal to at least …

(1) The staff of the higher education coordinating board, under the direction of the executive director, will manage the administrative functions relative to this program.(2) The board shall appoint an advisory committee comprised of representatives of eligible institutions and o…

Upon receipt of a complaint or other evidence that an institution has failed or is failing to comply with program rules and regulations, the board staff shall notify the institution by mail of the nature of such allegations and conduct a review of the alleged violations.If prelim…

The Degree-Granting Institutions Act, chapter 28B.85 RCW requires that degree-granting institutions operating in Washington obtain authorization from the Washington student achievement council, unless specifically exempted from the authorization requirement by the act. This chapt…

A degree-granting institution shall not operate, conduct business, grant or offer to grant any academic courses or degree programs unless the institution has obtained authorization from the council, been granted a waiver of the requirements of authorization, or been determined by…

Unless otherwise indicated, the council delegates authority for administering the act and these rules to the executive director.Actions taken pursuant to these rules by the executive director or designee shall be subject to supervision by the council.Such actions shall be reporte…

In addition to other administrative responsibilities vested in the executive director of the Washington student achievement council under the act and this chapter, the executive director shall carry out the following administrative responsibilities:(1) Process authorization appli…

The definitions set forth in this section are intended to supplement the definitions in chapter 28B.85 RCW and shall apply throughout this chapter.(1) "Accredited institution" means an institution that has been accredited by an accrediting association recognized by the council an…

No exemption from the requirements for degree authorization is considered to be permanent. The exemption granted is dependent upon the institution's maintenance of the conditions under which the exemption was granted.Unless otherwise indicated, the provisions of this chapter do n…

In order to apply for and maintain an exemption from the requirements for degree authorization, an institution must comply with the following:(1) The chief academic officer of the institution shall contact council staff and arrange for a preliminary conference to discuss the exem…

The council may waive or modify the authorization requirements contained in this chapter for a particular institution if the council finds that such waiver or modification will not frustrate the purposes of this chapter; and (1) that literal application of this chapter creates a …