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                                   4214
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 3, 2021
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 Introduced by Sens. STAVISKY, SKOUFIS -- 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:
 
   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
 
  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. 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.