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Ark. Code Ann. § 6-85-221

Scholarship hold

Acts 2011, No. 207, § 19; 2019, No. 910, §§ 2187, 2188.

(1) The Division of Higher Education may approve a scholarship hold for a traditional student for a period of twenty-four (24) months or less.

(2) The reasons for a scholarship hold may include without limitation: A medical condition of the student or a member of the student's immediate family that, on the basis of a physician's good-faith judgment, necessitates the student or the student's immediate family member to be hospitalized or receive outpatient or home-based medical care or to recuperate until released by the attending physician;

(3) A personal or family emergency that requires the student to: Attend the funeral of an immediate family member; or

(4) Visit a relative of the student if the relative has a medical condition in which death is possible or imminent;

(5) Military service under § 6-61-112; or

(6) A commitment of twelve (12) to twenty-four (24) months for service in a national or international humanitarian project sponsored by a nonprofit corporation organized with a charitable or educational purpose.

(7) The student's commitment shall be expressed in a written agreement with the nonprofit organization including the terms of completion for the student's service on the related project.

(8) The division shall release a scholarship hold if the division determines that the student did not complete the commitment under the written agreement.

Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.