Bill Text: HI SB2300 | 2020 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating To Higher Education.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-21 - Referred to HRE, WAM. [SB2300 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2020-SB2300-Introduced.html
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THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2020 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to higher education.
BE IT
ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The legislature finds that ensuring the State's public institutions of higher education have a single articulation pathway for prospective early childhood education professionals is a matter of statewide concern. The legislature further finds that the establishment of a single articulation pathway will allow future early childhood education professionals to more easily and more affordably obtain a baccalaureate degree.
Accordingly, the purpose of this Act is to require the university of Hawaii system to develop a single articulation pathway for early childhood education students.
SECTION 2. Chapter 304A, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to subpart E of part II to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:
"§304A- Early childhood education; single articulation
pathway. (a) The university of Hawaii shall develop and implement a single
articulation pathway for students working toward degrees in fields relating to early
childhood education. The articulation
pathway shall:
(1) Incorporate any
relevant general education requirements;
(2) Match complementary
competencies and learning outcomes for both associate and baccalaureate degrees;
(3) Allow a student
who completes an associate degree in a field relating to early childhood education
to:
(A) Pursue
a single, common curriculum in early childhood education that will articulate, without
alteration, with a related baccalaureate degree program at any other university
of Hawaii campus that offers the related baccalaureate degree; and
(B) Apply
all the credits earned for the student's associate degree toward the related baccalaureate
degree so that the student may begin the baccalaureate degree as a junior-status
student;
(4) Be developed in
consultation with appropriate employers regarding the competencies and learning
outcomes considered important for a successful career and employment in the field
of early childhood education;
(5) Be implemented no
later than the beginning of the 2021-2022 academic year; and
(6) Be reviewed at least
once every three years. In conducting this
review, the university shall consult with each early childhood education program
from all campuses.
(b) Each
campus that offers an early childhood education program shall publicize by all appropriate
means the availability of and requirements for the completion of the articulation
pathway developed pursuant to this section, including by publication of the pathway
on the website of each academic unit that offers an early childhood education program
or degree.
(c) Beginning
with the regular session of 2022, and each regular session thereafter, the university
of Hawaii shall submit a report to the legislature that includes:
(1) Data concerning
the performance of the articulation pathway, including a summary of the outcomes
of students who transfer into a baccalaureate program after previously earning an
associate degree under the pathway;
(2) The number of students
who participate and graduate under the pathway; and
(3) Any other relevant
findings and recommendations, including any proposed legislation.
The university shall submit the report no later
than twenty days prior to the convening of each regular session."
SECTION 3. (a) The
university of Hawaii shall convene an early childhood education articulation working
group to assist the university in developing the articulation pathway required by
this Act.
(b) Members
of the group shall be appointed by the president of the university of Hawaii system;
provided that there shall be at least one representative from each campus of the
university of Hawaii that offers a program in early childhood education.
(c) The
early childhood education articulation
working group shall be dissolved on December 31, 2021.
SECTION 4. The university of Hawaii shall submit a report
of its progress in implementing the articulation pathway required by this Act to
the legislature no later than twenty days prior to the regular session of 2021.
The report shall include the university
of Hawaii's findings and recommendations, including any proposed legislation.
SECTION 5. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 6. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2020.
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Report Title:
UH; Early Childhood Education; Single Articulation Pathway
Description:
Requires the University of Hawaii to develop a single articulation pathway that allows students who complete an associate degree in a field relating to early childhood education to pursue a common curriculum in early childhood education that will articulate, without alteration, with a related baccalaureate degree program at another University of Hawaii campus. Establishes an early childhood education articulation working group to assist the University of Hawaii in developing the articulation pathway. Requires reports to the Legislature.
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