Bill Text: NY A09787 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the state university of New York to examine and conduct a study on the creation of a designated equity-centered honors college for the state university college at Geneseo for all attending students; requires a report on the findings of such study to be submitted within 180 days of the effective date.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-09 - referred to higher education [A09787 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09787-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9787

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      April 9, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. BRONSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Higher Education

        AN ACT to require the state  university  of  New  York  to  examine  and
          conduct a study on the creation of a designated equity-centered honors
          college  for the state university college at Geneseo for all attending
          students

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  The board of trustees of the state university of New York
     2  shall conduct a study on the feasibility of the creation of  an  equity-
     3  centered  honors  college  for  the state university college at Geneseo,
     4  which shall consider but not be limited to the following:
     5    1. examination of a plan for the implementation and  operation  of  an
     6  equity-centered  honors college prepared by the state university college
     7  at Geneseo in consultation with faculty, staff,  and  students  at  such
     8  college;
     9    2.  evaluation  of the impacts of an equity-centered honors college on
    10  increased enrollment;
    11    3. measurement of persistence through degree completion of  first-gen-
    12  eration,  low-income  students  through  increased need-based funding to
    13  support their education at the state university college of Geneseo;
    14    4. exploration of  the  impact  and  potential  benefit  of  providing
    15  students  participating in the equity-centered honors college, such as a
    16  guarantee of successful job placement; and
    17    5. examination of the economic costs and benefits of  establishing  an
    18  equity-centered honors college for the state university college at Gene-
    19  seo.
    20    §  2.  The board of trustees of the state university of New York shall
    21  submit a report of its findings and recommendations to the governor, the
    22  temporary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, and  the
    23  chairs  of  the  higher  education committees in the assembly and senate
    24  within one hundred eighty days of the effective date of this act.
    25    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15162-01-4