(1) "Academic year" means a nine-month period consisting of two semesters or three quarters of academic work. Summer term is additional to the academic year.

(2) "Board" means the Washington state higher education coordinating board. When a duty or responsibility of the board is referenced in these regulations, the authority needed to discharge that responsibility lies with the executive director or his or her designee.

(3) "Emancipated from foster care" for the purpose of creating timely offers of financial aid, means the student has spent at least one year in foster care subsequent to his or her sixteenth birthday and who either has emancipated from care or who is, at the time of verification, expected to emancipate from care by their eighteenth birthday.

(4) "Financial need" means the difference between a student's cost of attendance and the student's total family contribution as determined by federal methodology.

(5) "Program" means the passport to college promise program created in this chapter.

(6) "Satisfactory progress" means a student making progress according to the institutionally determined student financial aid satisfactory policy.

(7) "Verification" means that a student's eligibility for passport has been documented by the department of social and health services.