Assembly Bill A9755

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                   9755
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 28, 2022
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 Introduced  by M. of A. GLICK -- read once and referred 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:
 
   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
 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
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 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.