Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 23.1-204.1 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§23.1-204.1. Postgraduation employment rates.
A. The Council shall annually publish data on its website on
the proportion of graduates of each public institution of higher education and
each nonprofit private institution of higher education eligible to participate
in the Tuition Assistance Grant Program (§23.1-628 et seq.) who are employed
(i) 18 months after the date of graduation and (ii) five years after the date
of graduation. The data shall include the program and the program level, as
recognized by the Council, for each degree awarded by each institution; the
percentage of graduates known to be employed in the Commonwealth; the average
salary, hours worked, occupation or occupation code,
and the average higher education-related debt for the graduates on which the
data is based; rates of enrollment in remedial coursework for each institution;
individual student credit accumulation for each institution; rates of
postsecondary degree completion; and any other information that the Council
determines is necessary to address adequate preparation for success in
postsecondary education and, alignment between secondary
and postsecondary education, and alignment between
postsecondary education and workforce preparation. The
Council shall disseminate to each public high school and each public
institution of higher education and private institution of higher education for
which the Council has student-level data a link on its website to the published
data. The Council shall provide a notification template that each public high
school may use to annually notify students and their parents about the
availability of such data. The published data shall be consistent with the
Government Data Collection and Dissemination Practices Act (§2.2-3800 et seq.)
and the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. §1232g).
B. Each such institution of higher education shall provide a link to such published postsecondary education and employment data.
2. That the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles, the Virginia Employment Commission, and the Virginia Department of Taxation shall cooperate with the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) to determine the feasibility of entering into data-collection and data-sharing agreements, consistent with state and federal law, that would allow SCHEV, through the Virginia Longitudinal Data System, to obtain data from such agencies to assist it in better analyzing the alignment of postsecondary education and workforce in the Commonwealth.