[Oacrao-l] Category I/II Undocumented Students

[Foster, Kyle]

Good afternoon, OACRAO colleagues.

I hope everyone is doing well during this very stressful time of the year.  I was hoping to get some feedback from your community regarding undocumented students at State System institutions.  As many of you will likely recall, the Oklahoma Legislature passed two bills in 2007—HB 1804 and SB 820—which resulted in changes to State Regents’ policy regarding undocumented students.  However, the legislation specified that currently enrolled students would not be affected.  This resulted in the creation of two categories of undocumented students at State System institutions.  They are described this way in the Academic Affairs Procedures Handbook:

Category I     – Students enrolled in a degree program at a state system institution during the 2006-07 year or any prior school year who received a resident tuition benefit pursuant to the pre-HB 1804 statute and pre-HB 1804 State Regents’ policy.  These students are “grandfathered” and remain eligible for resident tuition and state financial aid under the pre-HB 1804 law and pre-HB 1804 policy.

Category II    – Students enrolling in a postsecondary education institution in 2007-08 and thereafter.  These students are subject to the new restrictions under HB 1804 and the State Regents’ policy that became effective November 1, 2007.

The Academic Affairs Procedures Handbook Committee of the Council on Instruction is currently updating the Handbook.  Before updating the section dealing with undocumented students, I would like to ask:


  *   Whether your institutions still classify students as Category I or Category II or
  *   Are all students now considered to be Category II, thus eliminating the need for the distinction in the Handbook?

Any information you can provide would be helpful in helping the Committee move forward with these updates.  Thank you!

Respectfully,

Kyle Foster, Ph.D.
Assistant Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education
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