§ 667. Tuition assistance program awards. 1. Recipient\nqualifications. Tuition assistance program awards are available for all\nstudents who are enrolled in approved programs and who demonstrate the\nability to complete such courses, in accordance with standards\nestablished by the commissioner provided, however, that no award shall\nbe made unless tuition (exclusive of educational fees) and, if\napplicable, the college fee levied by the state university of New York\npursuant to the April first, nineteen hundred sixty-four financing\nagreements with the New York state dormitory authority charged for the\nprogram in which the student is enrolled total at least two hundred\ndollars a year, and provided further that, no award can exceed one\nhundred percent of the amount of tuition charged.\n 2. Duration. No undergraduate shall be eligible for more than four\nacademic years of study, or five academic years if the program of study\nnormally requires five years. Students enrolled in a program of remedial\nstudy, approved by the commissioner in an institution of higher\neducation and intended to culminate in a degree in undergraduate study\nshall, for purposes of this section, be considered as enrolled in a\nprogram of study normally requiring five years. An undergraduate student\nenrolled in an eligible two year program of study approved by the\ncommissioner shall be eligible for no more than three academic years of\nstudy. An undergraduate student enrolled in an approved two or four-year\nprogram of study approved by the commissioner who must transfer to\nanother institution as a result of permanent college closure shall be\neligible for up to two additional semesters, or their equivalent, to the\nextent credits necessary to complete the student's program of study were\ndeemed non-transferable from the closed institution or were deemed not\napplicable to such student's program of study by the new institution.\nAny semester, quarter, or term of attendance during which a student\nreceives any award under this article, after the effective date of the\nformer scholar incentive program and prior to academic year nineteen\nhundred eighty-nine--nineteen hundred ninety, shall be counted toward\nthe maximum term of eligibility for tuition assistance under this\nsection, except that any semester, quarter or term of attendance during\nwhich a student received an award pursuant to section six hundred\nsixty-six of this subpart shall be counted as one-half of a semester,\nquarter or term, as the case may be, toward the maximum term of\neligibility under this section. Any semester, quarter or term of\nattendance during which a student received an award pursuant to section\nsix hundred sixty-seven-a of this subpart shall not be counted toward\nthe maximum term of eligibility under this section.\n 3. Tuition assistance program awards.\n a. Amount. The president shall make awards to students enrolled in\ndegree-granting institutions or registered not-for-profit business\nschools qualified for tax exemption under § 501(c)(3) of the internal\nrevenue code for federal income tax purposes in the following amounts:\n (i) For each year of undergraduate study, assistance shall be provided\nas computed on the basis of the amount which is the lesser of the\nfollowing:\n (A) (1) In the case of students who have not been granted an exclusion\nof parental income, who have qualified as an orphan, foster child, or\nward of the court for the purposes of federal student financial aid\nprograms authorized by Title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as\namended, or had a dependent for income tax purposes during the tax year\nnext preceding the academic year for which application is made, except\nfor those students who have been granted exclusion of parental income\nwho have a spouse but no other dependent:\n (a) Five thousand dollars, except starting in two thousand\nfourteen-two thousand fifteen such students shall receive five thousand\none hundred s
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