Urges Secretary of Higher Education and Educational Opportunity Fund Board to study and modernize program regulations, particularly regulations related to student funding priority levels.

ACR 68 is a resolution urging the New Jersey Secretary of Higher Education and the Educational Opportunity Fund (EOF) Board to study current EOF program rules. It specifically targets regulations that treat high school graduates who earned associate degrees through dual enrollment programs as lower-priority students for funding - placing them in the lowest funding tier instead of the second tier reserved for first-time freshmen. This rule creates a disincentive for students to participate in dual enrollment and other college readiness programs (like P-TECH or Advanced Placement) that the state actively promotes. The resolution requests a study to modernize these rules and align them with current educational policy goals, with findings to be shared with legislative committees.