Okla. Stat. tit. 70, § 70-2602: Oklahoma Higher Learning Access Program

There is hereby created the Oklahoma Higher Learning Access

Program. The program shall also be known as "Oklahoma's Promise".

The purpose of the program is to provide an award to students who

meet the criteria set forth in the Oklahoma Higher Learning Access

Act who are pursuing studies in this state leading to an associate

or baccalaureate degree or who are pursuing studies in a

postsecondary career technology program that would meet the

requirements to be eligible for federal student financial aid and is

offered by a technology center school supervised by the State Board

of Career and Technology Education, and who are in good academic

standing in the institution or school in which the student is

enrolled, that will relieve the student of the burden of paying

nonguaranteed resident tuition at institutions of The Oklahoma State

System of Higher Education, paying tuition for enrollment in

postsecondary programs of the technology center districts, or paying

some portion of such fees or tuition, pursuant to the provisions of

the Oklahoma Higher Learning Access Act, as may be required of

enrollees at private institutions of higher education which are

accredited pursuant to Section 4103 of this title. The further

purpose of this program is to establish and maintain a variety of

support services whereby a broader range of the general student

population of this state will be prepared for success in

postsecondary endeavors.