The Scholarship Team

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• The Scholarship Team
• is MAD about the 70's!

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Agenda

• Need-based Grant Methodology
• Palmetto Fellows and LIFE Scholarship Enhancement
• Legislative Update
• Foster Care Youth
• Scholarship Appeal Updates
• Residency
• Questions

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Need-based Grant Methodology
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• From the beginning
• Funding is allocated to
• public institutions equivalent
  to
• the percentage of the public
  institutions
• share of the total S.C. resident
  undergraduate
• full-time headcount enrollment in the preceding
  year.

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What does this translate to? What new frontier
are we exploring?
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Current Formula at 15M
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Current Formula at 15M
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Current Formula at 15M
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Current Level of Support Utilizing Pell
Recipients as Marker Using the 15M Allocation
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Current Level of Support Utilizing Pell
Recipients as Marker Using the 15M Allocation
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Current Level of Support Utilizing Pell
Recipients as Marker Using the 15M Allocation
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I Will Survive
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Proposed NBG Methodology

• Direct funding to institutions with the neediest
  students.
• Equalize the level rather than the amount.
• Only affects the additional funding and does not
  affect base amount each institution receives.

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Allocation of Additional Funding - 13.2M
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Allocation of Additional Funding - 13.2M
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Allocation of Additional Funding - 13.2M
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Lottery Proviso 1AA.7 - 5M
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Lottery Proviso 1AA.7
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Lottery Proviso 1AA.7
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Average Award Comparison at 13.2M
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Average Award Comparison at 13.2M
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Average Award Comparison at 13.2M
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What are we trying to achieve?
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What are we trying to achieve?
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70s Trivia

• What famous trio became legendary (or Icons) for
  their music in the 1970s, and whose music
  transformed John Travolta into a Disco Dynamo? 
  

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70s Trivia

• Which two members of the Bee Gees were twins?

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70s Trivia

Robin?
?Maurice
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Palmetto Fellows LIFE Scholarship Enhancement
Fourteen Credit Hour Requirement(Six credit
hours in math, six credit hours in life/physical
science, two credit hours of lab science)

• Students may use credit hours earned by the
  end of the first year of initial college
  enrollment in the following courses to meet the
  fourteen credit hour requirement for the Palmetto
  Fellows LIFE Scholarship Enhancement
• Exempted credit hours earned on a transcript at
  an eligible institution (only)
• Advanced Placement (AP) credit hours earned on a
  transcript for a grade of three or more on an AP
  exam at an eligible institution (only)
• Credit hours earned from International
  Baccalaureate (IB) courses
• College Level Examination Program (CLEP) credit
  hours earned on a transcript of an eligible
  institution (only)
• Pass/Fail credit hours earned for courses with a
  grade of Pass (only)
• Credit hours earned in high school while in a
  dual enrollment program at an eligible
  institution
• Credit hours earned in summer school at an
  eligible institution
• Credit hours earned at any in-state eligible
  institution and
• Credit hours earned at any out-of-state eligible
  institution.

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Legislative Update

• Proposed Bills
• S. 1233 In-state tuition within adjoining county
  in NC/GA
• S. 1115 In-state tuition for military and
  dependents
• H. 4408 14 credit hour requirement
• Proposed Regulations
• Residency Document No. 3172
• SC HOPE Document No. 3173
• Need-based Grant Document No. 3185

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70s Trivia

• What was Swedens biggest export after the Volvo?
  
• Hint Musical group

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• ABBA

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Foster Care

• Foster Care Waiver Form
• Institution
• CHE
• DSS (requires they complete annually)
• Submit separate invoice for foster care youth
  set-aside to Jeff Richards
• Students name and amount requested
• Report as F for foster care youth set-aside
• Submit SCDSS Form 16156 or award letter to student

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Scholarship Appeal Updates

• 2008-09 appeal deadline is October 1, 2008.
• Scholarship Appeal website will be live on May
  19, 2008.
• Advise students to thoroughly read Guidelines For
  Appeal 2008-09.

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Proposed Regulatory Residency Changes for 2008-09

• An independent person MUST rent/lease or own
  his/her SC domicile.
• The term, sole purpose, for relocation to SC is
  changed to primary purpose.
• Voter Registration Card is removed as an allowed
  item of indicia.
• An individual who qualifies under any of the
  residency exceptions to the twelve month rule
  will not automatically qualify for a State
  scholarship.
• Institutional residency appeals process should
  include a residency officer(s), as well as other
  individuals who are responsible for residency on
  a consistent basis.

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70s Trivia

• Who were the two original singers of Aint
  No Mountain High Enough?

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• Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell

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• QUESTIONS

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SC Commission on Higher Education

• Dr. Karen Woodfaulk Student Services Division
• 803.737.2244 or kwoodfaulk_at_che.sc.gov
• Dr. Tajuana Massie LIFE Scholarship
• 803.737.2271 or tmassie_at_che.sc.gov
• Mr. Gerrick Hampton Residency, S.C. Hope
  Scholarship LIFE Scholarship
• 803.734.4397 or ghampton_at_che.sc.gov
• Ms. Lorna Manglona-Williams Need-based Grant
  Lottery Tuition
• 803.737.2262 or lmangwilliams_at_che.sc.gov
• Ms. Sherry Hubbard Palmetto Fellows Scholarship
• 803.737.2128 or shubbard_at_che.sc.gov
• Mr. Franklin Davis HEAP College Goal Sunday
• 803.737-9758 or fdavis_at_che.sc.gov
• After Hours Higher Education Hotline