As used in the Graduate Scholarship Act: A. 'academic year' means any consecutive period of two semesters, three quarters or other comparable units commencing with the fall term each year; B. 'award recipient' means a student awarded a graduate scholarship; C. 'department' means the higher education department; D. 'eligible institution' means any graduate-degree-granting state university accredited by the north central association of colleges and secondary schools; E. 'graduate and professional field' means any program of study intended to result in a master's or doctoral degree, excluding the degree in medicine; and F. 'groups underrepresented in graduate education' means women, minorities, persons with a visual impairment or other physical disability and other groups who have traditionally been underrepresented in the specific area of graduate study or profession for which the scholarship is awarded. History: Laws 1988, ch. 111, § 3; 1991, ch. 262, § 9; 2007, ch. 46, § 10. ANNOTATIONSThe 2007 amendment, effective June 15, 2007, amended the section to make non-substantive language changes. warded. History: Laws 1988, ch. 111, § 3; 1991, ch. 262, § 9; 2007, ch. 46, § 10. ANNOTATIONSThe 2007 amendment, effective June 15, 2007, amended the section to make non-substantive language changes. The 1991 amendment, effective June 14, 1991, substituted 'Graduate Scholarship Act' for 'Graduate Fellowship Act' in the introductory paragraph and substituted 'scholarship' for 'fellowship' in Subsections B and F.
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