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 COL6/24/2021 CH. 28 STUDENT FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS FOR HIGHER EDUCATION 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 COL6/24/2021 CH. 28 STUDENT FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS FOR HIGHER EDUCATION 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.