Bill Text: IN SB0180 | 2013 | Regular Session | Engrossed
Bill Title: Higher education grading practices and faculty organization.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2013-05-13 - Public Law 177 [SB0180 Detail]
Download: Indiana-2013-SB0180-Engrossed.html
Citations Affected: IC 5-14; IC 21-18.
Synopsis: Higher education grading practices and faculty
organization. Requires the annual salaries of employees of state
educational institutions to be posted on the office of management and
budget's governmental transparency Internet web site. Requires the
commission for higher education (commission) to compile information
from each campus of each state educational institution concerning
faculty organizational structure and grading practices for the campus.
Requires the information to be made available to the public. Requires
the commission to make an annual report to the general assembly of
certain information concerning each state educational institution.
Provides that, before November 1, 2014, the commission, in
consultation with the office of management and budget and each state
educational institution, shall prepare and submit a report to the general
assembly in an electronic format under IC 5-14-6 that analyzes each
state educational institution's expenses for the state fiscal years
beginning in 2012 and 2013.
Effective: July 1, 2013.
(HOUSE SPONSOR _ KARICKHOFF)
January 7, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on Education and Career
Development.
February 14, 2013, amended, reported favorably _ Do Pass.
February 18, 2013, read second time, ordered engrossed.
February 19, 2013, engrossed. Read third time, passed. Yeas 44, nays 5.
February 26, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on Education.
April 1, 2013, amended, reported _ Do Pass.
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(1) A listing of state expenditures and fund balances, including expenditures for contracts, grants, and leases.
(2) A listing of state owned real and personal property that has a value of more than twenty thousand dollars ($20,000).
The web site must be electronically searchable by the public and must be intuitive to users of the web site.
(b) The data base must include for each state agency:
(1) the amount, date, payer, and payee of expenditures;
(2) a listing of state expenditures by:
(A) personal services;
(B) other operating expenses; or
(C) total operating expenses;
to reflect how the funds were appropriated in the state budget act;
(3) a listing of state fund balances; and
(4) a listing of property owned by the state.
(c) The data base must include for each state educational institution a listing of the annual salaries for employees of the state educational institution.
(1) Faculty activities related to the mission of the state educational institution, including teaching, course grading practices, research, scholarship, outreach, and professional services.
(2) Average and median faculty and administrator salaries.
(3) Median grade point averages for all students for the fall and spring semesters.
(4) Median grade point averages for all graduating seniors.
(5) Other information the commission considers necessary.
The information in the report must include undergraduate student information and faculty data by academic department, college, or university.
(b) A state educational institution shall provide the information set forth in subsection (a) in the form required by the commission.
(c) The report to the general assembly under subsection (a) must be in an electronic format under IC 5-14-6.
the general assembly in an electronic format under IC 5-14-6 that
analyzes each state educational institution's expenses for the state
fiscal years beginning in 2012 and 2013 and determine the
percentage or amount of the state educational institution's total
expenditures for a particular state fiscal year that were:
(1) overhead and operational expenditures;
(2) instructional expenses; and
(3) capital or other expenses.
(b) The commission may establish criteria for categorizing a
state educational institution's expenses.
(c) A state educational institution shall submit to the
commission any information necessary by the commission to
prepare the report required in subsection (a).
(d) This section expires January 1, 2015.
