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Scholarship board proposes new rules
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Posted on Mar 21 2005
The CNMI Scholarship Office has introduced rules and regulations implementing a scholarship program for outstanding high school graduates.
Published in the latest edition of the Commonwealth Register, the proposed policy would provide the necessary guidelines and criteria for the selection of students applying for scholarship funds under Public Law 14-37, or the Honor Scholarship Program.
The program, which commenced in academic year 2004/2005, authorizes the CNMI Scholarship Advisory Board to award scholarship to 15 graduating students, including 8 from Saipan, 2 from Rota, 2 from Tinian, and 3 from off-island.
P.L. 14-37 repealed and re-enacted its precursor, P.L. 7-32 as amended by P.L. 11-77.
Under the proposed regulations, an applicant for the Honor Scholarship Program must be a U.S. citizen or a U.S. national.
Applicants must be newly high school graduates who have attained a combination of a high cumulative grade point average and a high score in the Scholastic Assessment Test and/or the American College Test. The applicants’ extra-curricular activities, difficulty of courses taken, and at least two letters of recommendation will also be used in the selection process.
Applicants graduating within the CNMI must have attended school within the Commonwealth for a total of at least 6 years. Further, they must have spent the 2 years immediately preceding the award date in the CNMI.
Meanwhile, applicants graduating from a high school within the United States or its territories must have parents who are bona fide CNMI residents at the time of application and have been so for at least 8 years before the date of application.
Scholarship awardees are entitled to up to $15,000 in financial assistance per academic year.
Recipients who drop out of school or terminated by the school will immediately cease to receive scholarship privileges and will be required to reimburse the CNMI government of all the scholarship funds they had received.
