Rules Governing the Arkansas Academic Challenge Scholarship

The Department of Education, Division of Higher Education, proposes amendments to its Rules Governing Arkansas Academic Challenge Scholarship Program. Act 413 of 2023 amended the law governing the Arkansas Concurrent Challenge Scholarship, which is codified at Ark. Code Ann. § 6-85-401 et seq. As part of the amendment, the Act creates an additional provision of the rule to allow scholarship recipient students to utilize scholarship funds for enrolling and attending courses offered during a summer term at the postsecondary institution in which the student is enrolled. Act 539 of 2023 further amends this rule effective January 1, 2025, by expanding on the definition of institutions of higher education which will now include public or private vocational-technical institutes and public or private technical institutes. Act 386 of 2023 created the Arkansas Academic Challenge Plus Scholarship as an additional award for students 12 in the Academic Challenge Scholarship Program; this rule is amended to implement that program.

A public hearing was held on October 8, 2024. The public comment period expired on October 13, 2024. The agency indicated that it received no public comments.

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