Support and Budgeting

(a)

(1)The College of Business and Public Administration, University of Guam, shall provide the logistics, office space and other needed support to assist the Chair of the Department of Public Administration and Legal Studies in the administration of the Pedro “Doc” Sanchez Scholarship Program for Career Employees of the government of Guam (“the Program”). The Chair of the Department of Public Administration and Legal Studies shall reflect the financial and other material needs to cover these costs and the costs of the scholarships to be awarded in the yearly Departmental budget request of the College of Business and Public Administration, University of Guam and shall submit the same to the Legislature via the University of Guam. The budget request shall also include the projected monies needed for tuition, fees and textbooks of the scholarship recipients, and the personnel costs for the administrative daily oversight of the Program.

(2)In order to keep the administrative costs to a minimum, the Chair of the Department of Public Administration and Legal Studies shall select a person knowledgeable about this program to appoint to the position of program coordinator in the classified service of the government of Guam. The program coordinator shall manage the daily oversight of the Program. The general responsibilities of the program coordinator, under the direct supervision of the Chair of the Department of Public Administration and Legal Studies, shall be to plan, develop, implement and manage the Pedro “Doc” Sanchez COL6/24/2021 CH. 28 STUDENT FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS FOR HIGHER EDUCATION Professional Scholarship for Career Employees of the government of Guam.

(3)There is hereby created the position of Program Coordinator in the classified service of the government of Guam.

(b)Based on the established criteria of the various academic undergraduate degree programs at the College of Business and Public Administration, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the College of Arts and Science at the University of Guam, the Chair and faculty of the Department of Public Administration and Legal Studies shall interview, select and award scholarships to eligible applicants of the Pedro ‘Doc’ Sanchez Professional Scholarship for Career Employees of the government of Guam. Successful scholarship applicants may major in any undergraduate degree program in the College of Business and Public Administration, the College of Agriculture and Life Science and the College of Arts and Science at the University of Guam. Successful scholarship applicants, other than Public Administration majors, must pursue a minor in Public Administration.

(c)The Chair and faculty of the Department of Public Administration and Legal Studies at the College of Business and Public Administration, University of Guam, with the assistance of other academic unit Chairs of the College of Business and Public Administration, shall periodically make an assessment of the professional staffing needs of the Government of Guam and the Judiciary and assess the adequacy and up to dateness of the professional undergraduate degree programs of the College of Business and Public Administration, University of Guam, to the President of the University of Guam and to the Board of Regents of the University of Guam.

(d)The Chair and faculty of the Department Public Administration and Legal Studies, with the support of the College of business and Public Administration, University of Guam, shall do any and all necessary to properly carry out the intent and purposes of the Pedro “Doc” Sanchez Professional Scholarship of Career Employees of the Government of Guam. COL6/24/2021 CH. 28 STUDENT FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS FOR HIGHER EDUCATION