Guam § 28506 - Responsibility of the Scholarship Recipient.

§ 28506. Responsibility of the Scholarship Recipient.

(a) The scholarship grantee shall enroll for an undergraduate

degree in Public Administration or in any other undergraduate

degree program offered at the College of Business and Public

Administration, University of Guam, or shall enroll in the

graduate M.P.A. degree or M.B.A. degree program at the

College of Business and Public Administration, University of

Guam, immediately after being awarded the scholarship.

Undergraduate scholarship recipients who choose to enroll in a

degree program other than Public Administration at the College

of Business and Public Administration, in keeping with the intent

of the scholarship program, shall be required to minor in Public

Administration in order to ensure that all scholarship recipients

are professionally trained in modern Public Management

techniques. Failure to do so shall result in the automatic

forfeiture of the scholarship.

Upon selection for participation in the Sanchez Scholarship

Program, continuation of recipients in the program shall be based

upon meeting the academic standards of the University of Guam

as specified in policies published in the official Undergraduate

and Graduate Bulletins (Catalogues) of the University of Guam.

Based upon meeting the academic standards of the University of

Guam as published in the Undergraduate and Graduate Bulletins,

Sanchez recipients may enroll in required degree courses during

the Fall, Spring, Summer and Intercession Semesters.

(b) Each scholarship grantee shall enroll for not less than six

(6) academic units and not more than eighteen (18) academic

units per regular fall and spring semesters at the University of

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Guam during the period of his or her study grant. Scholarship

recipients may also enroll in a minimum of three (3) credit hours

during the summer and Intercession Semesters to meet degree

requirements. In no case, however, shall a scholarship grantee be

allowed more than seven (7) consecutive years, from the date of

original enrollment, to finish the undergraduate degree at the

College of Business and Public Administration or more than four

(4) consecutive years, from the date of original enrollment, to

finish the graduate degree in Public Administration or Business

Administration (M.P.A. and M.B.A.).

(c) Each scholarship grantee shall be required to submit

semestral progress reports on his or her studies accompanied by

a certified grade report to the head of the agency in which he or

she is employed. This report shall contain information on:

(1) the subjects enrolled in which satisfy undergraduate

College of Business and Public Administration or graduate

M.P.A. degree or M.B.A. degree requirements at the

University of Guam;

(2) subjects completed with the corresponding grades

and weights in academic units at the end of every semester;

and

(3) other matters pertinent of the scholarship which

shall be required from time to time by the agency head.

(d) Upon completion or termination of the scholarship, the

recipient shall be required to render service in a department,

agency, office, autonomous or semi-autonomous instrumentality

of the government of Guam, or in the judicial branch of

government of Guam. The required length of service to be

rendered shall be for a period of two (2) years for every

academic year of scholarship received by the recipient. The

recipient, however, may opt to monetarily reimburse the

government of Guam for all the expenses paid by the

government of Guam, or the autonomous agency that incurred

the cost for the recipient, in connection with such study grant.

(e) Upon the effective date of this Act, the grantee will be

eligible for a mandatory pay merit increase upon graduation. The

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grantees entered into the program, as evidenced with the

awarding of an undergraduate or graduate degree in Public

Administration or Business Administration by the University of

Guam, or in any other undergraduate degree program offered at

the School of Business and Public Administration and who

minor in Public Administration, shall be entitled to receive a one

(1)-step merit pay raise from the department, agency, office,

autonomous or semi-autonomous instrumentality of the

government of Guam or the Judiciary in which he or she is

employed effective FY2008 following official certification by

the University of Guam that the grantee has completed all degree

requirements.

Government Employees who were enrolled in the Pedro

“Doc” Sanchez Scholarship Program and graduated with a

degree between the enactment of Public Law 23-111 and the

enactment of this Section who would otherwise have received

the one (1)-step merit pay raise, shall be entitled to the same

incentive benefit, provided that the employee is an active

employee at the time of enactment of this Section and the merit

pay increase shall not be retroactive. Awarding of the one (1)-

step merit pay raise shall be subject to the availability of funds.

(f) Scholarship recipients shall maintain an overall grade

point average of 2.5 for undergraduate students and 3.0 for

graduate students.

(g) The provisions of subsection (e) of this Section shall not

apply to any new enrollees of the Pedro “Doc” Sanchez Program

after December 31, 2008.