North Dakota Code 15-10-49 – Advancement of academics – Matching grants – Two-year and four-year institutions of higher education
1. a. Subject to legislative appropriations, each biennium during the period beginning July first of each odd-numbered year and ending December thirty-first of each even-numbered year, the state board of higher education shall award one dollar in matching grants for every two dollars raised by the institutional foundations of Bismarck state college, Dakota college at Bottineau, Dickinson state university, Lake Region state college, Mayville state university, Minot state university, North Dakota state college of science, Valley City state university, and Williston state college for projects dedicated exclusively to the advancement of academics.
Terms Used In North Dakota Code 15-10-49
- Organization: includes a foreign or domestic association, business trust, corporation, enterprise, estate, joint venture, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, limited partnership, partnership, trust, or any legal or commercial entity. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- Person: means an individual, organization, government, political subdivision, or government agency or instrumentality. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- year: means twelve consecutive months. See North Dakota Code 1-01-33
b. To be eligible for a matching grant, an institution must demonstrate that:
(1) Its foundation has raised at least twenty-five thousand dollars in cash or monetary pledges for a qualifying project; and
(2) The project has been approved by the grant review committee established in section 15-10-51.
(3) The institution is not sponsoring, partnering with, applying for grants with, or providing a grant subaward to any person or organization that performs, or promotes the performance of, an abortion unless the abortion is necessary to prevent the death of the woman, and not participating in or sponsoring any program producing, distributing, publishing, disseminating, endorsing, or approving materials of any type or from any organization, that between normal childbirth and abortion, do not give preference, encouragement, and support to normal childbirth. This paragraph does not apply to agreements entered into with medical hospitals and clinics by the university of North Dakota school of medicine and health sciences or by any nursing education program at an institution under the control of the state board of higher education.
c. The board may award up to:
(1) One million seven hundred thousand dollars each to Bismarck state college, Minot state university, and the North Dakota state college of science; (2) One million one hundred thousand dollars each to Dickinson state university, Mayville state university, and Valley City state university; and
(3) Six hundred thousand dollars each to Dakota college at Bottineau, Lake Region state college, and Williston state college.
2. a. If any available dollars have not been awarded by the board before January first of each odd-numbered year, in accordance with subsection 1, any institution listed in subsection 1 may apply for an additional matching grant.
b. An application submitted under this subsection must meet the same criteria as an original application.
c. The board shall prioritize available dollars allocated in paragraph 1 of subdivision c of subsection 1 to applicants in paragraph 1 of subdivision c of subsection 1. The board shall prioritize available dollars allocated in paragraph 2 of subdivision c of subsection 1 to applicants in paragraph 2 of subdivision c of subsection 1. The board shall prioritize available dollars allocated in paragraph 3 of subdivision c of subsection 1 to applicants in paragraph 3 of subdivision c of subsection 1.
d. After considering applications pursuant to subdivision c, the board shall consider each application submitted under this subsection in chronological order.
e. If the remaining dollars are insufficient to provide a matching grant in the amount of one dollar for every two dollars raised by the institutional foundation, the board shall award a lesser amount.
3. The state board of higher education shall retain up to one-quarter of one percent of any grant awarded under this section to assist with administrative expenses incurred in the grant review process.