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, [ as available,
] occupation or occupation code, [ as available, ]
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.