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C. Recipient’s Retention of Scholarship for Meeting the Service Obligation
The recipient will not be required to repay to CSU-Pueblo the scholarship provided with funds under the NSF
Grant Award (DUE 1136426) if CSU-Pueblo’s Noyce Scholars Program determines that (1) the recipient meets
the academic requirements of the program for which the Noyce funds were awarded and (2) the recipient has
fulfilled his or her service obligation.
To determine that the recipient has met the service obligation, CSU-Pueblo’s Noyce Scholars Program must
receive information to confirm that the recipient, within eight (8) years of completing a secondary
mathematics licensure program approved by CSU-Pueblo’s Noyce Scholars program, has taught in a high-need
local education agency for the required number of years. Scholarship recipients who receive Noyce support
from CSU-Pueblo for exactly one (summer or academic) semester or for one summer semester and one
academic semester are required to teach at least one year in a high need school district. Scholarship recipients
who receive Noyce support for a full academic year (two academic semesters) are required to teach at least
two years in a high need school district, regardless of the number of summer semesters for which he or she
receives Noyce support.
So that CSU-Pueblo’s Noyce Scholars Program may obtain the information it needs to make these
determinations, the recipient agrees to have the school district in which he or she has taught provide CSU-
Pueblo’s Noyce Scholars Program such information as the program may require in order to confirm that:
1. The school in which the recipient has taught is “high-need” as defined in the “Definition of High-Need
Local Education Agency” below, and
2. The recipient taught on a full-time basis.
Upon completion of an approved secondary mathematics licensure program, CSU-Pueblo’s Noyce Scholars Program
will provide the recipient written guidance that explains the information that the recipient must have the school(s)
provide to CSU-Pueblo’s Noyce Scholars Program and the date or dates that this information is due.
[NOTE: To prevent an award recipient becoming liable for repaying the scholarship because of a school
district’s delay in forwarding the required employment information to CSU-Pueblo’s Noyce Scholars Program,
the program will also accept employment information directly from the recipient. In this case, within eight (8)
years of completion of a secondary mathematics licensure program approved by CSU-Pueblo’s Noyce Scholars
program, the recipient must submit to the program (1) a notarized statement that he or she has asked the
district(s) to provide the needed information and the date(s) this request was made, and (2) a copy of the
personal and employment information each school has been asked to submit. When a recipient chooses this
option, CSU-Pueblo’s Noyce Scholars Program‘s determination that he or she is meeting the service obligation
is only provisional. Until each school provides the information, the recipient retains a continuing responsibility
to work to get each school to submit the information as soon as possible.]
D. Definition of High-Need Local Educational Agency
Service must be completed within 8 years after completion of the program for which the scholarship was
awarded and must be performed in a high-need local educational agency as defined in the FY 2011 National
Science Foundation solicitation for Noyce Scholarship Grants. Service must be started within twenty four (24)
months after completion of the program for which the scholarship was awarded or the scholarship converts to
a loan that must be repaid, unless the recipient qualifies for discharge (Section II G) or deferment (Section IV
E). For the purposes of this agreement, a “high-need local education agency” is a local educational agency that
serves an elementary or a secondary school located in an area in which one or more of the following
conditions is met at the time of the recipient’s initial employment:
1) a high percentage of individuals from families with incomes below the poverty line;
2) a high percentage of secondary school teachers not teaching in the content area in which the
teachers were trained to teach; or
3) a high teacher turnover rate.
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