(a) Two thousand one hundred fifty dollars shall be apportioned for
each full-time student enrolled.
(b) An additional three thousand five hundred dollars shall be
apportioned for each full-time upper division student enrolled who is a
resident of the state and who:
(i) participates in the coordinated transfer program of the
association of American medical colleges; or
(ii) participates in the fifth pathway program; or
(iii) participated in and successfully completed in good standing the
biomedical education program of the city college of the city university
of New York.
2. The commissioner shall apportion each year to each non-public
institution of higher education offering an approved program in
dentistry the sum of fifty-eight hundred dollars for each full-time
student enrolled, except that aid distributed under this program shall
not exceed a sum based upon a total enrollment of eight hundred
thirty-five students at New York University and two hundred forty
students at Columbia University.
3. Receipt of aid for eligible students pursuant to paragraph (b) of
subdivision one of this section shall preclude an institution from
receiving state aid for the same students under the provisions of
section sixty-four hundred one of this article.
4. (a) To be eligible for assistance under this section an institution
must meet such standards of educational quality applicable to comparable
public institutions of higher education, as may be from time to time
established by the regents.
(b) In addition, to be eligible for assistance under subdivision two
of this section an institution must annually submit to the commissioner
a complete and detailed report as to each major item of educational and
other revenue and expenditure contained in the budget for such approved
program of dentistry, for both the preceding and the current academic
years for which aid pursuant to this section has or will be received.
Such report shall also include enrollment and faculty data, and shall be
in such form as the commissioner, with the approval of the director of
the budget, may prescribe.
The commissioner, upon review of the data contained in such report,
shall be authorized to require such institutions to file an application
with the appropriate agency of the federal government for a Financial
Distress Grant pursuant to Title VIII of the Health Professions
Educational Assistance Act of 1976, as a condition of further receipt of
assistance under subdivision two of this section.
5. The commissioner of education may promulgate rules and regulations
to accomplish the purposes of this section.
6. Funds appropriated for the purposes of this section shall be paid
in accordance with a payment schedule to be established by the
commissioner and approved by the director of the budget.
Structure New York Laws
Title 7 - State and City Colleges and Institutions-Cornell University
Article 129 - State Aid for Certain Independent Institutions of Higher Education
6401 - State Aid for Certain Independent Institutions of Higher Learning.
6402 - Enrollment Grants to Schools of Medicine and Dentistry.
6403 - Adjustments to Enrollment Grants.