2025-26 ISAC Rules

Latest Updates

The following adopted rules (2025-26 Package A) were published in the Illinois Register (Volume 50, Issue 28) on July 10, 2026. The full text of these rules can be found at:

https://www.ilsos.gov/content/dam/departments/index/register/volume50/register_volume50_28.pdf

Summaries of the changes, which are reflected under the 2025-26 ISAC Rules section of this page, are as follows:

  • Part 2743: Grant Program for Exonerees and their Dependents – Revises program name and adds allowances for dependents of exonerees to receive benefits.
  • Part 2749: Nursing Education Scholarship – Updates the sections in the Part, removes redundancies and consolidates language for easier readability.
  • Part 2750: Illinois Graduate and Retain our Workforce (iGROW) Tech Scholarship Program – Updates applicant eligibility criteria pertaining to academic performance and clarifying definitions.
  • Part 2752: Human Services Professional Loan Repayment Program – Clarifies the employment eligibility at time of application.
  • Part 2753: Community Behavioral Health Care Professional Loan Repayment Program – Adds a definition of behavioral health professional and updates applicant eligibility criteria.
  • Part 2755: Journalism Student Scholarship Program – New Part. Promulgates the rules for the 2025-26 Journalism Student Scholarship Program.
  • Part 2776: Workforce Development through Charitable Loan Repayment Program – New Part. Promulgates the rules for the 2025-26 Workforce Development through Charitable Loan Repayment Program.

Information about an additional set of 2025-26 rules amendments proposed by ISAC (2025-26 Package B) is available at the Proposed Rules and Amendments page.

2025-26 ISAC Rules

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Need-Based Grant Programs

Military Programs

Teacher Education Programs

Special Criterion Programs

High School Scholarship Programs and College Planning/Outreach

Loans and Loan Forgiveness Programs

Prepaid Tuition Program

Administrative/General