Sec. 10a-170r. Academic scholarship graduate student loan program. Eligibility requirements. - Connecticut Statutes

      Sec. 10a-170r. Academic scholarship graduate student loan program. Eligibility requirements. (a) There is established, beginning in the fiscal year ending June 30, 1988, an academic scholarship graduate student loan program for the benefit of students who have been accepted for admission or are currently enrolled in a degree-granting, graduate teacher preparation program at an accredited college or university in the state. The program shall be administered by the state Department of Higher Education.

      (b) To be eligible to apply for a loan under this program a student shall: (1) Be a resident of Connecticut; (2) be accepted or enrolled on a full-time basis in a degree-granting, graduate teacher preparation program at an accredited college or university in the state and intend to teach in a Connecticut public elementary or secondary school or nonpublic elementary or secondary school approved by the State Board of Education; (3) have graduated from a baccalaureate-degree-granting program with a minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.1 or have scored at least eighteen hundred on the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) general test; and (4) shall not have been the recipient of a loan under section 10a-163 or under section 10a-170i.

      (May Sp. Sess. P.A. 86-1, S. 35, 58.)