Bill Text: TX SB1874 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to requiring a public institution of higher education to make certain faculty information available to the public on the institution's Internet website.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-24 - Referred to Higher Education [SB1874 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB1874-Introduced.html
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| By: Zaffirini | S.B. No. 1874 | |
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| relating to requiring a public institution of higher education to | ||
| make certain faculty information available to the public on the | ||
| institution's Internet website. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 51.9745 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 51.9745. INTERNET ACCESS TO FACULTY INFORMATION. (a) | ||
| Each institution of higher education, other than a medical and | ||
| dental unit, as defined by Section 61.003, shall make available to | ||
| the public on the institution's Internet website the following | ||
| information for the institution: | ||
| (1) the student/faculty ratio; | ||
| (2) the percentage of all full-time equivalent faculty | ||
| members with teaching responsibility who are tenured or tenure | ||
| track; | ||
| (3) the percentage of semester credit hours taken by | ||
| students classified as freshmen or sophomores that are taught by | ||
| tenured and tenure track faculty members; | ||
| (4) the number of faculty members in each of the | ||
| following faculty ranks, including a breakdown for each rank | ||
| showing the numbers of faculty members by race, ethnicity, and | ||
| gender: | ||
| (A) professor; | ||
| (B) associate professor; | ||
| (C) assistant professor; | ||
| (D) instructor; | ||
| (E) nontenured or nontenure track; and | ||
| (F) teaching assistant; | ||
| (5) average faculty salaries by rank; | ||
| (6) the amount of money appropriated by the | ||
| legislature per full-time equivalent faculty member and full-time | ||
| equivalent student; | ||
| (7) the total revenue the institution spent per | ||
| full-time equivalent faculty member and full-time equivalent | ||
| student; | ||
| (8) the amount of federal and private research | ||
| expenditures per tenured or tenure track full-time equivalent | ||
| faculty member; | ||
| (9) the number and percentage of faculty members | ||
| holding extramural research grants; | ||
| (10) the number and names of awards to faculty members | ||
| from nationally recognized entities, including those identified by | ||
| The Center for Measuring University Performance; and | ||
| (11) the number of endowed professorships or chairs. | ||
| (b) Each institution of higher education shall update the | ||
| information required by Subsection (a) for the preceding academic | ||
| or fiscal year, as applicable, not later than December 31 of each | ||
| year. | ||
| (c) The administrator designated by an institution of | ||
| higher education under Section 51.974 shall be responsible for | ||
| ensuring implementation of this section. The administrator may | ||
| assign duties under this section to one or more administrative | ||
| employees. | ||
| (d) The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board may adopt | ||
| rules necessary to administer this section, including rules to | ||
| ensure the consistency of information made available by | ||
| institutions of higher education under this section. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 51.9745, Education Code, as added by | ||
| this Act, applies beginning with the 2012 fall semester. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
