Bill Text: NY S06299 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Directs the board of trustees of the state university of New York and the city university of New York to report on the current composition of faculty at four year campuses and community colleges.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-06-20 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S06299 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S06299-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6299 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE May 11, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. LAVALLE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education AN ACT in relation to directing the board of trustees of the state university of New York and the city university of New York to report on the current composition of faculty and academic advisors at four- year campuses and community colleges The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Legislative intent. The Legislature hereby recognizes the 2 importance of faculty and academic advisors employed at our public high- 3 er education institutions and the impact they have on on-time student 4 degree completion. The recent enactment of the Excelsior Scholarship 5 Program has the potential to increase total student enrollment at the 6 state university of New York and the city university of New York commu- 7 nity colleges and four-year campuses. As we prepare for students to 8 apply for and enroll in our public higher education institutions under 9 the Excelsior Scholarship Program, it is necessary for CUNY and SUNY to 10 take inventory of their current faculty and academic advisors and the 11 potential need for additional faculty and staff. The primary objective 12 of the Excelsior Scholarship Program is to ensure that students do grad- 13 uate within two years with an associate's degree, and within four years 14 with a baccalaureate degree. As students attempt to meet the thirty 15 credits per year threshold of such program and the requirements for 16 their majors, it is necessary to provide adequate numbers of faculty, 17 academic advisors and courses to meet students' needs. 18 § 2. The board of trustees of the state university of New York and the 19 city university of New York shall issue a report on or before one 20 hundred eighty days after this act shall have become a law detailing the 21 current composition of faculty and academic advisors at both four-year 22 campuses and community colleges. Such report shall not include employees 23 of the research foundations of the state university of New York or the EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11707-01-7S. 6299 2 1 city university of New York. For purposes of such report, faculty shall 2 mean instructional staff who teach one or more courses at a four-year 3 campus or a community college at the state university of New York or 4 city university of New York. The report shall be submitted to the gover- 5 nor, the temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the assem- 6 bly, the chair of the senate committee of finance, chair of the assembly 7 committee on ways and means, and the chairs of the senate and assembly 8 committees on higher education. The report shall include, but not be 9 limited to, the following criteria: 10 a. number by campus, in 2008 and in the current academic year, of each 11 of full-time tenured faculty, full-time tenure-track faculty, full-time 12 non tenure-track faculty, including those who may not have a faculty or 13 academic job title but perform instructional duties and number of facul- 14 ty lines and unfilled faculty positions; 15 b. mean and median class size by campus in 2008 and in the current 16 academic year, for full-time tenured faculty, full-time tenure-track 17 faculty, and full-time non tenure-track faculty and instructional staff; 18 c. mean and median class size by level in 2008 and in the current 19 academic year for remedial 100 level introductory courses, and 200 level 20 mid-level courses, and above for completion of an associate's degree and 21 baccalaureate degree; 22 d. number of part-time non tenure-track faculty in 2008 and in the 23 current academic year, including those who may not have a faculty or 24 academic job title but perform instructional duties, by campus; 25 e. mean and median class size by campus for part-time non tenure-track 26 faculty and instructional staff in 2008 and in the current academic 27 year; 28 f. number of full-time academic advisors per campus, and number of 29 part-time academic advisors, including those who may not possess the 30 title academic advisor but are primarily employed to perform and carry 31 out the duties typically assigned to, and function as, an academic advi- 32 sor excluding those individuals working with students enrolled in 33 special programs or student opportunity programs with enhanced academic 34 advising including, but not limited to EOP, ASAP, SEEK, College Discov- 35 ery and MacCauley Honors programs in 2008 and in the current academic 36 year; and 37 g. mean and median number of student advisees per full-time academic 38 advisor, and per part-time academic advisor per campus in 2008 and in 39 the current academic year. 40 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
