53B-8-101.   Waiver of tuition.
     (1) (a) The president of each institution may waive all or part of the tuition in behalf of meritorious or impecunious resident students to an amount not exceeding 10% of the total amount of tuition which, in the absence of the waivers, would have been collected from all Utah resident students at the institution.
     (b) Two and a half percent of the waivers designated in Subsection (1)(a) shall be set aside for members of the Utah National Guard. Waivers shall be preserved by the student at least 60 days before the beginning of an academic term.
     (2) (a) Each academic year the president of each of the following institutions may waive all or part of the resident portion of the tuition in behalf of the additional number of meritorious nonresident students set forth below who are not current recipients of the waiver:
                                Number of Nonresident
     Institution                        Students
    the University of Utah                     190
    Utah State University                         165
    Weber State University                     135
    Southern Utah University                     68
    Snow College                             18
    Dixie State College of Utah                     30
    the College of Eastern Utah                     18
    Utah Valley University                     114
    Salt Lake Community College                 43
     (b) (i) The president may continue to waive the resident portion of the tuition during the entire time the affected meritorious nonresident student remains an undergraduate student in good standing at the institution.
     (ii) The resident portion of the tuition for each nonresident student is equal to the tuition for resident students at the institution.
     (c) The president may waive the nonresident portion of tuition for a meritorious nonresident student receiving a waiver under Subsection (2)(a) after completion of the student's first year of full-time study at the institution.
     (d) (i) In addition to the waivers authorized by Subsections (2)(a) and (c), the president may waive all or part of the nonresident portion of tuition for a meritorious nonresident student during the student's first year of full-time study at the institution.
     (ii) The number of these nonresident waivers for each institution is limited to the percentage of nonresident students at each institution times the nonresident student number allowed under Subsection (2)(a).
     (3) Upon recommendation of the board, the president may grant additional full or partial tuition waivers to encourage students to enroll for instruction in occupations critical to the state for which trained personnel are in short supply.
     (4) The president may waive all or part of the difference between resident and nonresident tuition in the case of meritorious graduate students and nonresident summer school students.
     (5) The board shall submit annual budget appropriation requests for each institution which include requests for funds sufficient in amount to equal the estimated loss of dedicated credits that would be realized if all of the tuition waivers authorized by Subsection (2) were

granted.

Amended by Chapter 356, 2007 General Session
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