Michigan Administrative Code › Department - Treasury › Student Financial Services Bureau › Michigan Educational Opportunity Grant Program › Section R. 390.1721 - Definitions

Current through Vol. 24-12, July 15, 2024
Rule 1.
(1) As used
				in these rules:
(a) "Act" means Act No. 273
				of the Public Acts of 1986, being S390.1401 et seq. of the Michigan Compiled
				Laws.
(b) "Application" means the
				period of time covered by the MEOG award at the school of attendance.
(c) "Authority" means the Michigan higher
				education assistance authority created by Act No. 77 of the Public Acts of
				1960, as amended, being S390.951 et seq. of the Michigan Compiled
				Laws.
(d) "Campus-based aid" means
				the federal financial aid programs administered by the financial aid officer at
				a participating postsecondary school. These programs shall include supplemental
				educational opportunity grants, college work-study, and Perkins
				loans.
(e) "Default" means failure
				to comply with the terms of a loan guaranteed by the authority so that the
				authority finds it necessary to reimburse the lending institution for the
				balance of the loan.
(f)
				"Educational expenses" means student costs related to attendance as specified
				by the participating postsecondary school. These expenses may include tuition
				and fees charged to the student and a reasonable allowance for room and board,
				transportation, books and equipment, and incidental expenses.
(g) "Financial need" means the positive
				difference found by the participating postsecondary school between the
				applicant's educational expenses and any reasonable family unit contribution
				identified consistent with current need analysis review procedures approved for
				use with campus-based title IV federal student aid programs as provided for
				under the federal higher education act. Other sources of student aid to be
				received by the applicant for the award period in question shall be included by
				the school in the computation of financial need.
(h) "Full-time study" means enrollment for 12
				or more semester credit hours or its equivalent in trimester or quarter hours
				or the equivalent of 24 semester hours or 36 quarter hours per academic year
				for institutions using credit hours to measure progress, but not using
				semester, trimester, or quarter hours. Full-time study during the summer
				session following the regular academic year means enrollment for the number of
				credit hours defined as full-time by the postsecondary school. Enrollment
				status shall be determined as of a uniform date established each enrollment
				period by the postsecondary school for all MEOG recipients.
(i) "Half-time study" means enrollment for
				not less than 6, but not more than 11, semester credit hours or term/quarter
				equivalent per enrollment period or for not less than half of the credit hours
				defined as full-time in subdivision (h) of this subrule. Enrollment status
				shall be determined as of a uniform date established each enrollment period by
				the school for all MEOG recipients.
(j) "Higher education act" means title IV of
				the federal higher education act of 1965, as amended, 20 U.S.C. S1070 et
				seq.
(k) "Incarcerated" means
				currently interned in a corrections facility on either a fulltime or a
				part-time basis.
(l) "Independent
				or self-supporting status" means current federal requirements, as defined in 34
				C.F.R. S668.1a, as amended, have been met concerning conditions under which
				parental resources can be disregarded in the computation of a student's
				eligibility for financial aid.
(m)
				"MEOG" means the Michigan educational opportunity grant program as established
				by the act.
(n) "Parental unit"
				means the natural parents, adoptive parents, legal guardians, stepparents, or
				other individuals required by the postsecondary school to complete the
				financial application for title IV campus-based federal student aid for a
				dependent student.
(o) "Pell
				grants" means the federal pell grant program established under the federal
				higher education act.
(p) "Perkins
				loans" means the Perkins loan program established under the federal higher
				education act.
(q) "Permanent
				resident" means an applicant who is classified as a permanent resident by the
				United States immigration and naturalization service for the MEOG program award
				period in question.
(r) "Resident"
				means either of the following:
(i) For a
				dependent student who does not meet current federal guidelines for independent
				or self-supporting status as provided for under the federal higher education
				act, it means that the student's home address formally recognized by the school
				as the basis for residency documentation has been in Michigan for a minimum of
				12 months immediately preceding the postsecondary school's MEOG award period
				and that the school does not consider the student a resident of any other
				state.
(ii) For an independent
				student who does meet current federal guidelines for independent or
				self-supporting status as provided for under the federal higher education act,
				it means that the student involved has resided in Michigan continuously for a
				minimum of 12 months immediately preceding the postsecondary school's MEOG
				award period and that the student involved is not considered a resident of any
				other state.
(s)
				"Satisfactory academic progress" means compliance with the standards
				established by the participating postsecondary school of enrollment pursuant to
				the federal higher education act regarding minimal criteria of academic
				progress needed to maintain eligibility for the federal campus-based student
				aid programs.
(t) "Student aid"
				means scholarship, grant, loan, or employment aid that the applicant might
				receive from any source other than the MEOG program.
(u) "Undergraduate program of study" means
				courses that are applicable or transferrable to a baccalaureate or lower degree
				or certificate. A program shall be not less than 9 months in length.
(v) "Year" means the full academic year,
				which is comprised of the academic year that is consistent with the fiscal year
				for which funds were appropriated plus the immediately following summer
				session.