79-8,133 Attracting Excellence to Teaching Program; created; terms, defined.
79-8,133. AttractingExcellence to Teaching Program; created; terms, defined.The AttractingExcellence to Teaching Program is created. For purposes of theAttracting Excellence to Teaching Program:(1) Department means the State Department of Education;(2) Eligible institution means a not-for-profit college oruniversity which (a) is located in Nebraska, (b) is accredited by the NorthCentral Association of Colleges and Schools, (c) has a teacher education program, and (d) if a privatelyfunded college or university, has not opted out of the program pursuantto rules and regulations;(3) Eligible student means an individual who (a) is a full-timestudent, (b) is enrolled in an eligible institution in anundergraduate or a graduate teacher education program working toward his or her initial certificate to teach inNebraska, (c) if enrolled at a state-funded eligible institution,is a resident student as described in section 85-502 or, if enrolled in aprivately funded eligible institution, would be deemed a resident studentif enrolled in a state-funded eligible institution, and (d) for applicants applying for the first time onor after April 23, 2009, is a student majoring in a shortage area;(4) Full-time student means, in the aggregate, the equivalentof a student who in a twelve-month period is enrolled in twenty-four semestercredit hours forundergraduate students or eighteen semester credit hours for graduate students ofclassroom, laboratory, clinical, practicum, or independent study course work;(5) Majoringin a shortage area means pursuing a degree which will allow an individualto be properly endorsed to teach in a shortage area;(6) Shortage area meansa secular field of teaching for which there is a shortage, as determined bythe department, of properly endorsed teachers at the time the borrower firstreceives funds pursuant to the program; and(7) Teacher education program means a programof study approved by the State Board of Education pursuant to subdivision(5)(g) of section 79-318. SourceLaws 2000, LB 1399, § 16; Laws 2003, LB 685, § 20; Laws 2009, LB547, § 4.