From saint@admsec.wwu.edu Wed Mar 12 14:33:26 1997 Received: from mx4.u.washington.edu (mx4.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.5]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW96.12/8.8.4+UW97.03) with ESMTP id OAA17478 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 1997 14:33:26 -0800 Received: from admsec.wwu.edu (gaea.admsec.wwu.edu [140.160.249.20]) by mx4.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW96.12/8.8.4+UW97.03) with ESMTP id OAA10745 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 1997 14:33:24 -0800 Received: by gaea.admsec.wwu.edu id <17297>; Wed, 12 Mar 1997 14:32:35 -0800 Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 14:33:53 -0800 From: "Joseph M. St.Hilaire" To: residency@u.washington.edu Subject: "public inst of higher ed" Message-Id: <97Mar12.143235pst.17297@gaea.admsec.wwu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Here's a student who graduated from a Washington high school three years ago, then attended the U. of Montana the past three years. A couple years ago, her parents moved to Idaho. So when her license expired, she renewed it in Idaho. She was claimed by her parents all this time, but is now moving back to Washington, will marry a Washington fellow, and plans to enroll at Western in the fall. I told her the clock starts ticking when she changes her documents back to Washington. But out of curiosity, I need to ask you: RCW 28B.15.012(2)(d) says we can call a resident "any student who has spent at least 75 percent of both his or her junior and senior years in high school in this state, whose parents or legal guardians have been domiciled in the state for a period of at least one year within the five-year period before the student graduates from high school, and who enrolls in a public institution of higher education within six months of leaving high school . . ." I can't just now get my hands on RCW 28B.15.900, which offers a definition of "institutions of higher education", but not of "public institution of higher education". I have to assume, however, that the latter includes only Washington public institutions of higher ed and that attending U. of Montana doesn't help her. By the way, does that clause purposely exclude students who happen to attend a private Washington college or university? I guess I don't catch the rationale behind it. Joe St.Hilaire Western .