N.Y. Education Law § 6402: Enrollment grants to schools of medicine and dentistry

§ 6402. Enrollment grants to schools of medicine and dentistry. 1.

The commissioner shall apportion each year to each non-public

institution of higher education offering an approved program in medicine

a sum to be determined as follows:

(a) Two thousand one hundred fifty dollars shall be apportioned for

each full-time student enrolled.

(b) An additional three thousand five hundred dollars shall be

apportioned for each full-time upper division student enrolled who is a

resident of the state and who:

(i) participates in the coordinated transfer program of the

association of American medical colleges; or

(ii) participates in the fifth pathway program; or

(iii) participated in and successfully completed in good standing the

biomedical education program of the city college of the city university

of New York.

2. The commissioner shall apportion each year to each non-public

institution of higher education offering an approved program in

dentistry the sum of fifty-eight hundred dollars for each full-time

student enrolled, except that aid distributed under this program shall

not exceed a sum based upon a total enrollment of eight hundred

thirty-five students at New York University and two hundred forty

students at Columbia University.

3. Receipt of aid for eligible students pursuant to paragraph (b) of

subdivision one of this section shall preclude an institution from

receiving state aid for the same students under the provisions of

section sixty-four hundred one of this article.

4. (a) To be eligible for assistance under this section an institution

must meet such standards of educational quality applicable to comparable

public institutions of higher education, as may be from time to time

established by the regents.

(b) In addition, to be eligible for assistance under subdivision two

of this section an institution must annually submit to the commissioner

a complete and detailed report as to each major item of educational and

other revenue and expenditure contained in the budget for such approved

program of dentistry, for both the preceding and the current academic

years for which aid pursuant to this section has or will be received.

Such report shall also include enrollment and faculty data, and shall be

in such form as the commissioner, with the approval of the director of

the budget, may prescribe.

The commissioner, upon review of the data contained in such report,

shall be authorized to require such institutions to file an application

with the appropriate agency of the federal government for a Financial

Distress Grant pursuant to Title VIII of the Health Professions

Educational Assistance Act of 1976, as a condition of further receipt of

assistance under subdivision two of this section.

5. The commissioner of education may promulgate rules and regulations

to accomplish the purposes of this section.

6. Funds appropriated for the purposes of this section shall be paid

in accordance with a payment schedule to be established by the

commissioner and approved by the director of the budget.