In administering the program for the community colleges and the private institutions, the commission shall:
- 1. Provide application forms to students enrolled and attending or seeking to enroll and attend community colleges or accredited private institutions.
- 2. Develop and provide confidential financial statement forms to the parents or guardians of students applying for grants under this program.
- 3. Approve and award grants to community colleges and accredited private institutions under the program.
- 4. Adopt rules for determining financial need and residency for the purpose of awarding grants to qualified students, and any other rules necessary for the administration of the program.
- 5. Require postsecondary institutions that receive moneys from students awarded grants under the program to furnish any information necessary for the implementation or administration of the program.
- 6. Solicit and receive private contributions and federal grants available for purposes of the program.
- 7. Maintain records on the recipients of vouchers under section 262.92 and adopt rules to provide for the giving of priority to students holding vouchers under that section.
- 8. Administer funds appropriated for the Iowa minority academic grants for economic success program to carry out the duties of the commission.
- 9. Provide for the proration of funds among qualified applicants if funds available are insufficient to pay all approved grants.
Subsection 5 stricken and former subsections 6 – 10 renumbered as 5 – 9
89 Acts, ch 319, §56 CS89, §261.104 90 Acts, ch 1253, §17; 2023 Acts, ch 19, §2641 C2024, §256.216 2024 Acts, ch 1057, §6
Referred to in §262.93