ok-2224: State Regents for Higher Education — Student Financial Aid and Scholarships
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The proposed rule revisions address the following issues to implement the changes created by House Bills 1282 and 1096 (2025): -Name Change The rules change the name from the Academic Scholars Program to the Oklahoma Rising Scholars Award. -Award for Automatic Qualifiers The rules increase the potential award amount for automatically qualifying students to receive no more than the average cost of attendance for up to five years of undergraduate and/or graduate study at an accredited public or private institution of higher education in Oklahoma. -Tuition Waivers The rules require institutions within the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education to provide a tuition waiver not to exceed the average cost of tuition for automatic qualifiers. -National Norm-Referenced College Entrance Exam The rules remove language that delineated the ACT and SAT as accepted exams for the Oklahoma Rising Scholars Award and changed the language to include any national norm-referenced college entrance exam. The qualifying scores required for the program did not change but students can now submit exam scores for other national entrance tests. However, if the Classic Learning Test (CLT) exam is used, only scores from tests taken at an independently-run testing center operated by the CLT or any physical location where means of education are provided will qualify.
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