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tuition. |
(6) A modest, individually tailored tuition discount |
can make the difference in a student choosing to attend |
college and enhance college access for low-income and |
middle-income families. |
(7) Even if the federally calculated financial need for |
college attendance is met, the federally determined |
Expected Family Contribution can still be a daunting |
amount. |
(8) This State is the second largest exporter of |
students in the country. |
(9) When talented Illinois students attend |
universities in this State, the State and those |
universities benefit. |
(10) State universities in other states have adopted |
pricing and incentives that allow many Illinois residents |
to pay less to attend an out-of-state university than to |
remain in this State for college. |
(11) Supporting Illinois student attendance at |
Illinois public universities can assist in State efforts to |
maintain and educate a highly trained workforce. |
(12) Modest tuition discounts that are individually |
targeted and tailored can result in enhanced revenue for |
public universities. |
(13) By increasing a public university's capacity to |
strategically use tuition discounting, the public |
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university will be capable of creating enhanced tuition |
revenue by increasing enrollment yields. |
(b) In this Section: |
"Eligible applicant" means a student from any high school |
in this State, whether or not recognized by the State Board of |
Education, who is engaged in a program of study that in due |
course will be completed by the end of the school year and who |
meets all of the qualifications and requirements under this |
Section. |
"Tuition and other necessary fees" includes the customary |
charge for instruction and use of facilities in general and the |
additional fixed fees charged for specified purposes that are |
required generally of non-grant recipients for each academic |
period for which the grant applicant actually enrolls, but does |
not include fees payable only once or breakage fees and other |
contingent deposits that are refundable in whole or in part. |
The Commission may adopt, by rule not inconsistent with this |
Section, detailed provisions concerning the computation of |
tuition and other necessary fees. |
(c) Beginning with the 2019-2020 academic year, each public |
university may establish a merit-based scholarship pilot |
program known as the AIM HIGH Grant Pilot Program. Each year, |
the Commission shall receive and consider applications from |
public universities under this Section. Subject to |
appropriation and any tuition waiver limitation established by |
the Board of Higher Education, a public university campus may |
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award a grant to a student under this Section if it finds that |
the applicant meets all of the following criteria: |
(1) He or she is a resident of this State and a citizen |
or eligible noncitizen of the United States. |
(2) He or she files a Free Application for Federal |
Student Aid and demonstrates financial need with a |
household income no greater than 6 times the poverty |
guidelines updated periodically in the Federal Register by |
the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under the |
authority of 42 U.S.C. 9902(2). |
(3) He or she meets the minimum cumulative grade point |
average or ACT or SAT college admissions test score, as |
determined by the public university campus. |
(4) He or she is enrolled in a public university as an |
undergraduate student on a full-time basis. |
(5) He or she has not yet received a baccalaureate |
degree or the equivalent of 135 semester credit hours. |
(6) He or she is not incarcerated. |
(7) He or she is not in default on any student loan or |
does not owe a refund or repayment on any State or federal |
grant or scholarship. |
(8) Any other reasonable criteria, as determined by the |
public university campus. |
(d) Each public university campus shall determine grant |
renewal criteria consistent with the requirements under this |
Section. |
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(e) Each participating public university campus shall post |
on its Internet website criteria and eligibility requirements |
for receiving awards that use funds under this Section that |
include a range in the sizes of these individual awards. The |
criteria and amounts must also be reported to the Commission |
and the Board of Higher Education, who shall post the |
information on their respective Internet websites. |
(f) After enactment of an appropriation for this Program, |
the Commission shall determine an allocation of funds to each |
public university in an amount proportionate to the number of |
undergraduate students who are residents of this State and |
citizens or eligible noncitizens of the United States and who |
were enrolled at each public university campus in the previous |
academic year. All applications must be made to the Commission |
on or before a date determined by the Commission and on forms |
that the Commission shall provide to each public university |
campus. The form of the application and the information |
required shall be determined by the Commission and shall |
include, without limitation, the total public university |
campus funds used to match funds received from the Commission |
in the previous academic year under this Section, if any, the |
total enrollment of undergraduate students who are residents of |
this State from the previous academic year, and any supporting |
documents as the Commission deems necessary. Each public |
university campus shall match the amount of funds received by |
the Commission with financial aid for eligible students. |
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A public university campus is not required to claim its |
entire allocation. The Commission shall make available to all |
public universities, on a date determined by the Commission, |
any unclaimed funds and the funds must be made available to |
those public university campuses in the proportion determined |
under this subsection (f), excluding from the calculation those |
public university campuses not claiming their full |
allocations. |
Each public university campus may determine the award |
amounts for eligible students on an individual or broad basis, |
but, subject to renewal eligibility, each renewed award may not |
be less than the amount awarded to the eligible student in his |
or her first year attending the public university campus. |
Notwithstanding this limitation, a renewal grant may be reduced |
due to changes in the student's cost of attendance, including, |
but not limited to, if a student reduces the number of credit |
hours in which he or she is enrolled, but remains a full-time |
student, or switches to a course of study with a lower tuition |
rate. |
An eligible applicant awarded grant assistance under this |
Section is eligible to receive other financial aid. Total grant |
aid to the student from all sources may not exceed the total |
cost of attendance at the public university campus. |
(g) All money allocated to a public university campus under |
this Section may be used only for financial aid purposes for |
students attending the public university campus during the |
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academic year, not including summer terms. Notwithstanding any |
other provision of law to the contrary, any funds received by a |
public university campus under this Section that are not |
granted to students in the academic year for which the funds |
are received may be retained by the public university campus |
for expenditure on students participating in the Program or |
students eligible to participate in the Program. |
(h) Each public university campus that establishes a |
Program under this Section must annually report to the |
Commission, on or before a date determined by the Commission, |
the number of undergraduate students enrolled at that campus |
who are residents of this State. |
(i) Each public university campus must report to the |
Commission the total non-loan financial aid amount given by the |
public university campus to undergraduate students in the |
2017-2018 academic year, not including the summer term in |
fiscal year 2018. To be eligible to receive funds under the |
Program, a public university campus may not decrease the total |
amount of non-loan financial aid it gives to for undergraduate |
students, not including any funds received from the Commission |
under this Section or any funds used to match grant awards |
under this Section, to an amount lower than the reported amount |
for the 2017-2018 academic year, not including the summer term |
total non-loan financial aid amount given by the public |
university campus to undergraduate students in fiscal year |
2018, not including any funds received from the Commission |
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under this Section or any funds used to match grant awards |
under this Section. |
(j) On or before a date determined by the Commission, each |
public university campus that participates in the Program under |
this Section shall annually submit a report to the Commission |
with all of the following information: |
(1) The Program's impact on tuition revenue and |
enrollment goals and increase in access and affordability |
at the public university campus. |
(2) Total funds received by the public university |
campus under the Program. |
(3) Total non-loan financial aid awarded to |
undergraduate students attending the public university |
campus. |
(4) Total amount of funds matched by the public |
university campus. |
(5) Total amount of claimed and unexpended funds |
retained by the public university campus. |
(6) The percentage of total financial aid distributed |
under the Program by the public university campus. |
(7) The total number of students receiving grants from |
the public university campus under the Program and those |
students' grade level, race, gender, income level, family |
size, Monetary Award Program eligibility, Pell Grant |
eligibility, and zip code of residence and the amount of |
each grant award. This information shall include unit |
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record data on those students regarding variables |
associated with the parameters of the public university's |
Program, including, but not limited to, a student's ACT or |
SAT college admissions test score, high school or |
university cumulative grade point average, or program of |
study. |
On or before October 1, 2020 and annually on or before |
October 1 thereafter, the Commission shall submit a report with |
the findings under this subsection (j) and any other |
information regarding the AIM HIGH Grant Pilot Program to (i) |
the Governor, (ii) the Speaker of the House of Representatives, |
(iii) the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, (iv) |
the President of the Senate, and (v) the Minority Leader of the |
Senate. The reports to the General Assembly shall be filed with |
the Clerk of the House of Representatives and the Secretary of |
the Senate in electronic form only, in the manner that the |
Clerk and the Secretary shall direct. The Commission's report |
may not disaggregate data to a level that may disclose |
personally identifying information of individual students. |
The sharing and reporting of student data under this |
subsection (j) must be in accordance with the requirements |
under the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of |
1974 and the Illinois School Student Records Act. All parties |
must preserve the confidentiality of the information as |
required by law. The names of the grant recipients under this |
Section are not subject to disclosure under the Freedom of |
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Information Act. |
Public university campuses that fail to submit a report |
under this subsection (j) or that fail to adhere to any other |
requirements under this Section may not be eligible for |
distribution of funds under the Program for the next academic |
year, but may be eligible for distribution of funds for each |
academic year thereafter. |
(k) The Commission shall adopt rules to implement this |
Section. |
(l) This Section is repealed on October 1, 2024.
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(Source: P.A. 100-587, eff. 6-4-18; 100-1015, eff. 8-21-18; |
100-1183, eff. 4-4-19; 101-81, eff. 7-12-19.)
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Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect June 1, |
2020.
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