As used in the Graduate Scholarship Act:
A. "academic year" means any consecutive period of two semesters, three quarters or other comparable units commencing with the fall term each year;
B. "award recipient" means a student awarded a graduate scholarship;
C. "department" means the higher education department;
D. "eligible institution" means any graduate-degree-granting state university accredited by the north central association of colleges and secondary schools;
E. "graduate and professional field" means any program of study intended to result in a master's or doctoral degree, excluding the degree in medicine; and
F. "groups underrepresented in graduate education" means women, minorities, persons with a visual impairment or other physical disability and other groups who have traditionally been underrepresented in the specific area of graduate study or profession for which the scholarship is awarded.
History: Laws 1988, ch. 111, § 3; 1991, ch. 262, § 9; 2007, ch. 46, § 10.
ANNOTATIONSThe 2007 amendment, effective June 15, 2007, amended the section to make non-substantive language changes.
The 1991 amendment, effective June 14, 1991, substituted "Graduate Scholarship Act" for "Graduate Fellowship Act" in the introductory paragraph and substituted "scholarship" for "fellowship" in Subsections B and F.