The Council on Higher Education has adopted a decentralized

model of administration for conducting its business and reaching official decisions regarding applications submitted to it under Subpart 3 of Part A of Title IV of the Pigher Education Act of 1965, as amended. Following this model, the Council on Higher Education exercises the overall direction and control over SSIGP and delegates to participating institutions the responsibility for carrying out certain routine aspects of the program administration, such as receipt and processing of student applications, need analysis and payment to students. Each participating institution will determine the substantial financial need using the systems of need analysis (CSS) published by the College Scholarship Service, or the BEOG method, and the following standard: If the difference between the student's cost of education and his expected family contribution is at least $90.00, the expected family contribution will be determined taking into consideration the following criteria. a) For dependent students The following factors are considered in determining the amount of income and net assets that should reasonably be made available by the student, the student's spouse, and the student's parents for meeting the student's cost of education. 1) Any serious family illness 2) The number of dependent children of the student's parents. 3) The number of such dependent children attending institutions of higher education. 1980-F1 page 2 Certification number 60 b) For independent or self-supporting students The following factors are considered in determining the amount of income and net assets that should reasonably be made available by the student and the student's spouse for meeting the student's cost of education: 1) Any serious illness in the student's family. 2) The number of dependent children of the student 3) The number of such dependent children attending institutions of higher education. Each participating institution will send to the Council on Higher Education, not later than August 31 of each year, a list of eligible students organized in rank order from the highest to the lowest substantial financial need not covered by other economic aid programs. A separate order of priority will be established for continuing award and initial award. The Council on Higher Fducation reserves the power to be the final judge as to the correctness of need analysis computations and the actual selection or disapproval of student grant recipients. This agency will re-evaluate annually all students recommended by the institutions to receive SSIGP grants, in advance of making awards, to assure that each such student fulfills all the eligibility criteria established in Section 192.6 of the SSIGP Regulations. This State Agency may also disapprove any award which has been recommended by any participating institution, if it considers that such student does not fulfill the SSIGP eligibility requirements. The Council on Higher Education will use a separate list of candidates from each institution, array in rank order from the highest to the lowest substantial financial need not covered by other economic aid programs. There will be separate lists for continuing and initial awards. The federal funds allotted to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico for continuing and initial awards each fiscal year will be distributed in accord with the rank order of the separate list established from the student with the highest to the student with the lowest substantial financial need not covered by other economic programs. The Council on Higher Diffecation will verify that every student will receive an equal amount of economic aid from the Commonwealth Government funds to match the federal aid under this program. 1980-81 page 3 Certification number 60 The Council on Higher Frlucation will give assurance that the amount of funds expended by the Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico for the non-federal portion of initial awards under this program will represent an additional expenditure above the total amount expended for all student grants, graduate and undergraduate, need based and non-need based, in the second fiscal year prior to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico entry into SSIGP. This base year is fiscal year 1972. Issued under the seal of the University of Puerto Rico, at RIO Piedras, Puerto Pico, this twenty-second day of September nineteen hundred eighty. I 280mg Luis E. Gonzalez Vales Executive Secretary mmc DE CONSEJO DE EDUCACION SUPERIOR PUEREO Apartado F, Estación Postal U.P.R., Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico 00931 Tel. (809) 758-3350 ALL RICO 1908 1987-88 Certificación número 122 Yo, Ismael Ramirez Soto, Director Ejecutivo del Consejo de Educación Superior, CERTIFICO: Que el Consejo de Educación Superior, en su reunión ordinaria del viernes 8 de abril de 1988, luego de obtener la aprobación del Departamento de Educación Federal, acordó: 1. Que las instituciones beneficiarias del programa "State Student Incentive Grant" (SSIG) tienen la responsabilidad de: a. Asegurarse de que sus auditores externos incluyan este programa en la auditoría de fondos federales bajo la Circular A-110 "Single Audit Act". Si alguna institución no viene obligada a cumplir con la Circular A-110, sus auditores externos evaluarán el programa para determinar que se está cumpliendo con el reglamento y directrices establecidas para el mismo. b. Someter al Consejo de Educación Superior copia del informe que rindan sobre el particular los auditores externos. 2. Reservarse el derecho de evaluar dichos informes y hacer las auditorías que considere necesarias mediante contratación de auditores externos 0 por empleados de su Oficina de Auditores. Esta certificación sustituye la Sección 13.8 de la Certificación número 61A, Serie 1975-76 "Regulation for the Administration of the State Student Grant Program" y el "Commonwealth Plan for Subpart 3 of Part A of Title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended". Y para que así conste, expido la presente certificación bajo el sello de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, en Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, hoy día doce de abril de mil novecientos ochenta y ocho. Ismael Ramirez Soto Director Ejecutivo mrm