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16-5-10
Section 16-5-10 Additional powers and duties of commission. The commission shall exercise the
following powers and duties in addition to those otherwise specified in this article: (1)
To cause to be made such surveys and evaluations of higher education as are believed necessary
for the purpose of providing appropriate information to carry out its powers and duties. (2)
To recommend to the Legislature of Alabama the enactment of such legislation as it deems necessary
or desirable to insure the highest quality of higher education in this state taking into consideration
the orderly development and maintenance of the state system of public higher education to
meet trends in population and the change in social and technical requirements of the economy.
(3) To advise and counsel the Governor, at his request, regarding any area of, or matter pertaining
to, postsecondary education. (4) To establish definitions of a junior college, a community
college, a technical college or institute, a senior...
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16-5-8
Section 16-5-8 Review, coordination, establishment, etc., of programs; transfer of credits;
Articulation and General Studies Committee. (a)(1) The Commission on Higher Education is authorized
to review periodically all new and existing programs and units of instruction, research, and
public service funded by state appropriations at the state universities and colleges and to
share with the appropriate governing board, through the president of the institution, and
state Legislature, its recommendations. (2) As a part of its program review process, the commission
shall enforce, monitor, and report on minimum degree productivity standards for all existing
programs of instruction at public two-year and four-year institutions of higher education.
Productivity standards shall be based, primarily, but not exclusively, on the annual average
number of degrees conferred during a five-year period for senior institutions and a three-year
period for two-year institutions, as verified by the...
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16-33B-4
Section 16-33B-4 Basic powers and duties of the Alabama Commission on Higher Education for
the Alabama Guaranteed Student Loan Program. (a) Basic powers. The Alabama Commission on Higher
Education (ACHE) is authorized to administer the Alabama Guaranteed Student Loan Program in
accordance with the Federal Student Loan Law, and empowered to promulgate such rules, regulations,
policies, and procedures as may be reasonable and proper in order to carry out the provisions
and purposes of this chapter. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the ACHE is
authorized and empowered: (1) To establish regulations deemed necessary to comply with federal
regulations and legislation relative to guaranteed student loans and the Federal Student Loan
Law. (2) To establish eligibility criteria for participating postsecondary educational institutions.
(3) To establish reasonable eligibility criteria for the initial and continuing participation
of approved lenders in the student loan program. (4)...
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41-5A-6
Section 41-5A-6 Chief examiner - Recovery audits for overpayments of state funds. (a) For the
purposes of this section, the following words have the following meanings: (1) CHIEF EXAMINER.
The Chief Examiner of Public Accounts. (2) OVERPAYMENT. Any payment in excess of amounts due
and includes failure to meet eligibility requirements, failure to identify third party liability
where applicable, any payment for an ineligible good or service, any payment for a good or
service not received, duplicate payments, invoice and pricing errors, failure to apply discounts,
rebates, or other allowances, failure to comply with contracts or purchasing agreements, or
both, failure to provide adequate documentation or necessary signatures, or both, on documents,
or any other inadvertent error resulting in overpayment. (3) RECOVERY AUDIT. A financial management
technique used to identify overpayments made by a state agency with respect to individuals,
vendors, service providers, and other entities in...
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16-65-5
Section 16-65-5 Powers of authority. The authority shall have all of the following powers:
(1) To adopt an official seal and alter the same at its pleasure. (2) To sue and be sued in
contract and in tort and to complain and defend in all courts of law and equity. (3) To maintain
an office at such place or places as it may designate. (4) To borrow money and to issue bonds
for the purpose of making equipment loans to educational institutions to finance equipment
costs, and to provide for the rights of the purchasers, holders, or owners of such bonds.
(5) To make equipment loans to any public educational institution in order to finance equipment
costs, which equipment loans may be evidenced or secured by loan agreements, promissory notes,
security agreements, trust indentures, or such other instruments, and upon such terms and
conditions as the board of directors of the authority shall determine to be reasonable. (6)
To arrange for various forms of security or credit enhancement for its...
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16-33B-1
Section 16-33B-1 Definitions. As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires
a different meaning, the following words shall have the following meanings: (1) ACHE. The
Alabama Commission on Higher Education. (2) APPROVED LENDER. Any eligible institution, or
any bank, trust company, savings and loan association, credit union, pension fund, or insurance
company, whose primary consumer credit function is not the making of insured student loans
and which is examined and supervised by the appropriate state or federal regulatory agency
or any other institution or agency defined as an eligible lender in accordance with the Federal
Student Loan Law. (3) ELIGIBLE INSTITUTION. Any postsecondary educational institution which
is approved by the Alabama Commission on Higher Education for the purposes of this program.
However, an institution offering exclusively correspondence, independent study, or home study
courses is not an eligible institution. (4) FEDERAL STUDENT LOAN LAW. Title...
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31-10-25
Section 31-10-25 Tuition benefits; appropriation of funds. The Alabama Commission on Higher
Education shall serve as fiscal agent. Each institution shall submit to the Alabama Commission
on Higher Education a copy of the guard member's completed application which shall serve as
a basis of payment. Neither ACHE nor the public institutions shall pay nor be held responsible
for tuition benefits to otherwise eligible students in the Alabama National Guard Education
Assistance Program which are in excess of available appropriations. The tuition benefits of
this program shall be mandated only to the extent that funds are appropriated by the Legislature
for the program. (Acts 1993, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 93-910, p. 207, §1(7).)...
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31-10-5
Section 31-10-5 Annual report. The Alabama Commission on Higher Education and the Adjutant
General of the Alabama National Guard shall report to the Legislature by November 1st of each
year, the number of new applicants in the new academic year, the years of eligibility remaining
for each student, and the costs of the previous year's expenditures to the program by each
category of public institution of higher learning paid. (Act 2017-349, §3(b).)...
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31-10-4.1
Section 31-10-4.1 Qualifications for tuition reimbursement applicants; priority of state educational
benefits; tuition rates; applicability of section; repayment of benefits. (a) Beginning October
1, 2016, any member of the Alabama National Guard enrolled in a program leading to a certificate,
or an associate or bachelor's degree at an accredited public institution of higher education,
technical college, or community college within the State of Alabama may apply for a tuition
reimbursement benefit as provided for in this section if the applicant under this chapter
meets the following requirements: (1) The individual is 17 years of age or over. (2) The individual
is a member of the Alabama National Guard in good standing throughout the period or semester
for which that individual receives education benefits as indicated by continued satisfactory
participation in the Alabama National Guard as required by all applicable laws and regulations
of the Department of the Army, the Department of...
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16-5-1
Section 16-5-1 Definitions. The following terms shall have the meanings respectively prescribed
for them, except when the context otherwise requires: (1) PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION.
Those public educational institutions in Alabama which have been authorized by the Legislature
or by the constitution to provide formal education, including vocational, technical, collegiate,
professional or any other form of education, above the secondary school level. (2) COMMISSION.
The Alabama Commission on Higher Education created by this article. (3) INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAM.
A series of courses at any one location which culminates in a degree, certificate or other
formal recognition of academic credit. (4) UNIT. A school, college, division or institute
and includes the establishment of any new branch or campus. The term does not include reasonable
extension or alterations of existing curricula or programs which have a direct relationship
to existing programs previously approved by the...
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