R765-608-5. Policy

5.1. Program Description - UECSP is a program authorized as part of the higher education Engineering and Computer Science Initiative established with an effective date of July 1, 2001. UCA 53B-6-105.7 provides for establishment of the program "to recruit and train engineering, computer science, and related technology students to assist in providing for and advancing the intellectual and economic welfare of the state," and authorizes the State Board of Regents to provide by rule for the overall administration of the program.

5.2. Program Administration - Staff to the Regents will administer the program including funding distribution. The Technology Initiative Advisory Board assists and makes recommendations to the State Board of Regents.

5.3. Program Design - The Technology Initiative Advisory Board shall make recommendations by June 1 of each year to the State Board of Regents on the allocation and distribution of monies from the program fund. These funds are to be used for degree programs in the areas of engineering, computer science, and related technology programs. The distribution of these funds to the institutions is based on a formula which shall be developed by the Technology Initiative Advisory Board based on several components:

5.3.1 the number of graduates from the previous year,

5.3.2 the number and level of degrees offered, and

5.3.3 the program length of the degree offered at each institution.

5.4 Recipients' Post-Graduation Employment. It is the intent of the program that recipients of the UECSP funding will work in the state of Utah, in a field requiring the use of their degree, after graduating from a qualifying program.

5.5 Cancellation Policy. A scholarship may be cancelled at any time by the institution of attendance, if the student fails to make reasonable progress towards obtaining the degree or there appears to be a reasonable certainty that the student does not intend to work in the state upon graduation.