Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 715 - HIGHER EDUCATION COORDINATING COMMISSION › Division 13 - UNIVERSITY PROGRAMS AND FINANCE › Section 715-013-0025 - Public University Support Fund Distribution

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 7, July 1, 2024
(1) Purpose: The Purpose of this rule is to
			 operationalize and distribute the Public University Support Fund (PUSF) via the
			 Student Success and Completion Model (SSCM) described therein. This rule is a
			 companion to 715-013-0040.
(2)
			 Definitions:
(a) "Annual Update" means the
			 annual refresh of data upon which this model is based. It shall be completed by
			 the end of October of any given year.
(b) "Bilingual Education Certificate", means
			 completion of a Teacher Standards and Practices Commission (TSPC)-approved Dual
			 Language Specialization, OR, the completion of a TSPC-approved English as a
			 Second Language (ESOL) endorsement program, AND, the demonstration of
			 proficiency in a second language by passing a language competency test
			 recognized by TSPC including either the National Evaluation Series (NES) or
			 American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). Such
			 certificates are treated as a graduate certificate for the purposes of this
			 rule, as well as OAR 715-013-0040.
(c) "Classification of Instructional
			 Programs" or "CIP" code is a numerical identifier assigned by the National
			 Center for Education Statistics to an academic discipline to support tracking
			 and reporting data at the field-of-study level.
(d) "Cost Weighting" is a means by which the
			 value of any Student Credit Hour (SCH) or outcomes based allocation is adjusted
			 to account for the relative cost to an institution of providing a degree or
			 course. Cost weighting is the same at all institutions and is determined by CIP
			 and by the type of course, course or student level, degree level or degree
			 taught or awarded.
(e) "Data
			 Validation" is the process by which the HECC's Office of Research and Data
			 examines institution-submitted data to determine their accuracy and validity
			 within accepted standards.
(f)
			 "Dual Credit" course is that which awards secondary and postsecondary credit as
			 recognized by the HECC and determined by both the granting secondary
			 institution and granting public university.
(g) "Higher Education Coordinating
			 Commission" or "HECC" is the body established by ORS
			 350.050.
(h) "Inflation" is defined as the previous
			 full year CPI that includes the Portland metro area as published and defined by
			 the US Bureau of Labor Statistics and selected by the HECC.
(i) "Low Income Student" is defined as
			 resident undergraduate students who have received the Pell Grant at any point
			 during their time enrolled within a public university in Oregon.
(j) "Pell Grant" is a grant awarded by the
			 United States Department of Education to eligible students at American
			 institutions of higher education largely on the basis of financial
			 need.
(k) "Public university" or
			 "University" is any institution as defined in ORS
			 352.002.
(l) "Public University Support Fund" or
			 "PUSF" is the general fund appropriation to the HECC intended for distribution
			 by HECC to public universities as defined in ORS
			 352.002.
(m) "Resident" student is a student
			 classified as such by a public university's Residency Classification Officer,
			 reviewed by the Inter-institutional Residency Committee, or students granted
			 resident tuition under ORS
			 352.287 and all doctoral students for SSCM purposes.
(n) "Rural Students" are first time-freshmen
			 resident undergraduate students who are graduates of high schools designated by
			 the National Education Statistics Locale Codes as follows: "Rural; Distant",
			 "Rural; Fringe", "Rural; Remote", "Town; Distant", "Town; Fringe" or "Town:
			 Remote".
(o) "SCARF" is the Student
			 Centralized Administrative Reporting File and is comprised of student and
			 course information for each Oregon public university. The SCARF system is
			 maintained by the HECC's Office of Research and Data. All degree, course
			 levels, student types, including transfers, veterans and other relevant types,
			 and student credit hours are defined as they are within the SCARF.
(p) "Stop Gain" is designed to prevent an
			 institution from receiving an increase in allocation in excess of a
			 pre-determined threshold. If Stop-Gain is triggered, the excess allocation from
			 the triggering institution is distributed proportionally to all non-triggering
			 institutions. Only the amount necessary to bring all institutions within the
			 Stop-Gain threshold is re-distributed.
(q) "Stop Loss" can be either a negative or
			 positive percentage and is designed to prevent an institution from receiving a
			 decrease in allocation beyond a pre-determined threshold. If Stop-Loss is
			 triggered, all institutions that receive an allocation that exceeds the
			 stop-loss threshold contribute a proportional amount of allocation to those
			 institutions whose allocation fell below the Stop-Loss threshold. Only the
			 amount necessary to bring all institutions at or above the Stop-Loss threshold
			 is re-distributed.
(r) "Student
			 Success and Completion Model" or "SSCM" is a calculation-driven mechanism for
			 determining the proportion of PUSF allocated to each public
			 university.
(s) "Targeted Student
			 Populations" consist of undergraduate resident students that are part of any of
			 the following populations:
(1)
			 Underrepresented Racial/Ethnic Groups;
(2) Low Income Students;
(3) Rural students and
(4) Veterans. Students may be in as many of
			 these four groups as applicable in their case.
(t) "True-up" is the process by which
			 allocations created using estimated data are reconciled with finalized
			 allocations created using actual data.
(u) "Underrepresented Racial/Ethnic Group"
			 consists of resident undergraduate students identified in as American
			 Indian/Alaskan Native, Hispanic, Pacific Islander, Black, African American or
			 two or more races if one of those two or more races is one of those listed in
			 this definition.
(v) "Veterans" are
			 those resident undergraduate demarcated in the SCARF system as a veteran of the
			 U.S. Armed Forces as determined by the University in accordance with HECC
			 policy, practice and any relevant laws or administrative rules.