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                                  4873--A
     Cal. No. 478
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 28, 2019
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 Introduced  by Sen. STAVISKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed  to  the  Committee  on  Higher  Education  --
   reported  favorably  from  said committee, ordered to first and second
   report, ordered to a third reading,  amended  and  ordered  reprinted,
   retaining its place in the order of third reading

 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:
 
   Section  1.  Legislative intent. The Legislature hereby recognizes the
 importance of faculty and academic advisors employed at our public high-
 er education institutions and the impact they have  on  on-time  student
 degree  completion.  The  recent  enactment of the Excelsior Scholarship
 Program has the potential to increase total student  enrollment  at  the
 state  university of New York and the city university of New York commu-
 nity colleges and four-year campuses. As  we  prepare  for  students  to
 apply  for  and enroll in our public higher education institutions under
 the Excelsior Scholarship Program, it is necessary for CUNY and SUNY  to
 take  inventory  of  their current faculty and academic advisors and the
 potential need for additional faculty and staff. The  primary  objective
 of the Excelsior Scholarship Program is to ensure that students do grad-
 uate  within two years with an associate's degree, and within four years
 with a baccalaureate degree. As students  attempt  to  meet  the  thirty
 credits  per  year  threshold  of  such program and the requirements for
 their majors, it is necessary to provide adequate  numbers  of  faculty,
 academic advisors and courses to meet students' needs.
   § 2. The board of trustees of the state university of New York and the
 city  university  of  New  York  shall  issue  a report on or before one
 hundred eighty days after this act shall have become a law detailing the
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05695-03-9

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 current composition of faculty and academic advisors at  both  four-year
 campuses and community colleges. Such report shall not include employees
 of  the  research foundations of the state university of New York or the
 city  university of New York. For purposes of such report, faculty shall
 mean instructional staff who teach one or more courses  at  a  four-year
 campus  or  a  community  college at the state university of New York or
 city university of New York. The report shall be submitted to the gover-
 nor, the temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the assem-
 bly, the chair of the senate committee of finance, chair of the assembly
 committee on ways and means, and the chairs of the senate  and  assembly
 committees  on  higher  education.  The report shall include, but not be
 limited to, the following criteria:
   a. number by campus, in 2012 and in the current academic year, of each
 of full-time tenured faculty, full-time tenure-track faculty,  full-time
 non  tenure-track faculty, including those who may not have a faculty or
 academic job title but perform instructional duties and number of facul-
 ty lines and unfilled faculty positions;
   b. mean and median class size by campus in 2012  and  in  the  current
 academic  year,  for  full-time  tenured faculty, full-time tenure-track
 faculty, and full-time non tenure-track faculty and instructional staff;
   c. mean and median class size by level in  2012  and  in  the  current
 academic year for remedial 100 level introductory courses, and 200 level
 mid-level courses, and above for completion of an associate's degree and
 baccalaureate degree;
   d.  number  of  part-time  non tenure-track faculty in 2012 and in the
 current academic year, including those who may not  have  a  faculty  or
 academic job title but perform instructional duties, by campus;
   e. mean and median class size by campus for part-time non tenure-track
 faculty  and  instructional  staff  in  2012 and in the current academic
 year;
   f. number of full-time academic advisors per  campus,  and  number  of
 part-time  academic  advisors,  including  those who may not possess the
 title academic advisor but are primarily employed to perform  and  carry
 out the duties typically assigned to, and function as, an academic advi-
 sor  excluding  those  individuals  working  with  students  enrolled in
 special programs or student opportunity programs with enhanced  academic
 advising  including, but not limited to EOP, ASAP, SEEK, College Discov-
 ery and MacCauley Honors programs in 2012 and in  the  current  academic
 year; and
   g.  mean  and median number of student advisees per full-time academic
 advisor, and per part-time academic advisor per campus in  2012  and  in
 the current academic year.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.