2012 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 10a - State System of Higher Education
Chapter 185 - Board of Regents for Higher Education
Section 10a-25n - High technology doctoral fellowship program.

(a) There is established within the Board of Regents for Higher Education a high technology doctoral fellowship program to attract students to state doctoral programs in high technology and encourage them to teach subsequently in a college or university in the state.

(b) The program shall provide, within the limits of available appropriations, fellowships equally matched with fellowships supported by corporate and other nonstate funds. The Board of Regents for Higher Education, upon certification by an eligible university of the receipt of a matching fellowship, shall establish a fellowship at such university which may be renewed annually. For each new state fellowship at an independent university the Board of Regents for Higher Education shall establish two new state fellowships at a public university. The university shall select the fellowship recipients according to the provisions of sections 10a-25o and 10a-25p. Fellowships shall consist of an annual award of ten thousand dollars, plus an additional amount of up to three thousand dollars annually for public university recipients and up to twelve thousand two hundred fifty dollars annually for independent university recipients for tuition and fees. One-half of the fellowship award shall be a grant; the remaining half shall be a loan. Fellowship recipients who, upon completion of their doctoral program, teach in their field shall have the loan forgiven in equal amounts over the period of three years if they teach at a college or university in the state for three years and in equal amounts over the period of five years if they teach at an accredited out-of-state college or university for five years.

(P.A. 87-408, S. 1, 5; P.A. 88-360, S. 57, 63; P.A. 11-48, S. 285.)

History: P.A. 88-360 in Subsec. (b) provided for the forgiveness of loans for persons who teach out-of-state and made technical changes; pursuant to P.A. 11-48, “Department of Higher Education” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Board of Regents for Higher Education”, effective July 1, 2011.