Bill Text: NY S00142 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Establishes the office for diversity and educational equity within the state university of New York administration.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-20 - PRINT NUMBER 142A [S00142 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S00142-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 142--A 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 7, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sens. DIAZ, DILAN, PERKINS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education -- recommitted to the Committee on Higher Education in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit- tee AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to establishing the office for diversity and educational equity The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as 2 the "Increasing Diversity in Higher Education Act of 2016". 3 § 2. Legislative intent. The legislature hereby finds that the state 4 university of New York has not fully met the growing demand placed on 5 the university system to train the next generation workforce of our 6 state. Simultaneously, the university system is faced with an 7 unprecedented rate of minority and low-income student enrollment, high 8 rates of student dropouts, larger numbers of students completing college 9 after six years or more, and a situation where only 32 out of 100 white 10 students and only 11 of every 100 Hispanic and African-American students 11 are graduating from college. The economic impact on our state and the 12 nation of these dynamics are tremendously negative and threaten the 13 fabric of our civil society and national security. 14 Over the past decade, the state university of New York has experienced 15 a steady rise in the number of traditionally underrepresented students. 16 By the year 2016, figures from the United States census and other data 17 indicate that the majority of New York high school graduates will be 18 from groups that have been historically underrepresented in SUNY. This 19 demographic shift and a need to train a competitive New York workforce 20 present public higher education policy makers with a challenge. It is EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00797-02-6
