Bill Text: NJ A2156 | 2014-2015 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires reporting of the graduation and transfer rates of State tuition aid grant recipients.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-03-13 - Reported out of Assembly Committee, 2nd Reading [A2156 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2014-A2156-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblywoman CELESTE M. RILEY
District 3 (Cumberland, Gloucester and Salem)
Assemblyman TROY SINGLETON
District 7 (Burlington)
SYNOPSIS
Requires reporting of the graduation and transfer rates of State tuition aid grant recipients.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning State tuition aid grants and supplementing chapter 71B of Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. The Higher Education Student Assistance Authority shall provide for public inspection on its website detailed information on the graduation rates of State tuition aid grant recipients. In the case of county colleges, the authority shall also provide the transfer rates of State tuition aid grant recipients. The purpose of the information shall be to provide greater transparency and accountability in the State tuition aid grant program and to determine the success of grant recipients in completing an academic degree program.
b. Beginning with the 2014-2015 academic year graduation rates, each institution of higher education and each proprietary degree-granting institution shall provide the authority with data necessary for the authority to meet the requirements of subsection c. of this section. The data shall be provided to the authority by September 1 of each year.
c. The authority shall post the information on its website by November 1 of each year. The information shall include, but not be limited to:
(1) the two-year, four-year, and six-year average graduation rates, as applicable, of tuition aid grant recipients for each of the following sectors,
(a) county colleges;
(b) four-year public colleges and universities;
(c) independent colleges and universities; and
(d) proprietary degree-granting institutions.
In the case of county colleges, the authority shall also post the average transfer rate of tuition aid grant recipients; and
(2) the graduation rate for tuition aid grant recipients at each institution of higher education and each proprietary degree-granting institution. In the case of a county college, the authority shall also post the transfer rate for tuition aid grant recipients at each county college.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill requires the Higher Education Student Assistance Authority (HESAA) to annually post the graduation rates of State tuition aid grant recipients on its website. The information will include, but not be limited to: (1) the two-year, four-year, and six-year average graduation rates, as applicable, of tuition aid grant recipients for county colleges, four-year public colleges and universities, independent colleges and universities, and proprietary degree-granting institutions; and (2) the graduation rate for grant recipients at each institution of higher education and each proprietary degree-granting institution.
Under the bill, each institution of higher education and each proprietary degree-granting institution is required to provide data to HESAA that will enable it to post the graduation rates of grant recipients. HESAA will also post the average transfer rate of State tuition aid grant recipients for the county college sector, and the transfer rate for tuition aid grant recipients at each county college.
The bill also requires each institution of higher education and each proprietary degree-granting institution, by September 1 of each year, to provide HESAA with the data necessary for the authority to post the information on its website. HESAA is then required to post the information on its website by November 1 of each year. The data will be provided beginning with the 2014-2015 academic year graduation rates.
