Clarifies how income may be deposited in the operating account. Transfers to the new fund any moneys remaining in the previously existing loan guarantee fund. Clarifies that the moneys in the new fund are to be apportioned and used only as permitted by applicable law.
APPROVED by Governor March 28, 2001
EFFECTIVE March 28, 2001
S.B. 01-229 Colorado school of mines - performance contract - terms - funding. Recognizes the Colorado school of mines ("CSM") as an exemplary institution, and authorizes the CSM to operate under a performance contract with the Colorado commission on higher education ("CCHE").
Beginning July 1, 2001, directs the board of trustees of the Colorado school of mines ("board of trustees") to negotiate performance goals with the CCHE as part of the performance contract. Clarifies that compliance with the performance goals is in lieu of compliance with the statutory quality indicator system. Directs the CCHE to submit the finalized performance contract for review at a joint meeting of the education committees of the senate and the house of representatives and the joint budget committee. Specifies that the performance contract shall take effect upon approval by the general assembly through passage of a joint resolution. Allows the CSM to operate pursuant to the performance contract from the date the contract is approved through June 30, 2011.
Specifies the powers of the board of trustees during the period that the CSM operates under the provisions of the performance contract, including authority to create, modify, or eliminate academic or vocational programs and set resident and nonresident tuition rates. Allows the governor to appoint additional, nonvoting members to the board of trustees for the period during which the CSM operates pursuant to the performance contract. Requires the CSM to report on or before February 15, 2003, and annually thereafter, to the general assembly and to the CCHE concerning its plan for increasing tuition rates, and directs the general assembly to take such information into account in setting tuition spending authority for all state-supported institutions of higher education.
Specifies that, while operating pursuant to the performance contract, the CSM shall remain eligible for state-funded capital construction and controlled maintenance projects and shall admit all qualified resident applicants.
Directs the general assembly, while the CSM operates under the performance contract, to appropriate annually general fund moneys as a block grant to the board of trustees to support resident student enrollment. Directs the CCHE and the CSM to negotiate annually the amount of the block grant, based on several factors. Directs the CSM to submit to the education committees of the senate and house of representatives, beginning February 15, 2003, and every 3 years thereafter, a report reviewing the institution's operations under the performance contract.
APPROVED by Governor June 5, 2001
EFFECTIVE June 5, 2001
H.B. 01-1035 Higher education boards and commissions - Colorado commission on higher education - state board for community colleges and occupational education - appointments - conditions - requirements. Reduces from 2 years to one year the period of time prior to the time of appointment, that a member of the Colorado commission on higher education ("commission") cannot have been employed by or affiliated in an official capacity with a state-supported institution of higher education in the state. Repeals the requirement that the appointment of an unaffiliated member of the commission be counted as an appointment of a member of the governor's political party. Corrects the statutory reference to the total number of members on the commission to reflect the actual number. Makes a conforming change to the corresponding reference to the number of commission members of any one major political party. Allows an employee of a state institution of higher education to be an appointed member of the state board for community colleges and occupational education.
APPROVED by Governor March 23, 2001
EFFECTIVE March 23, 2001
H.B. 01-1263 Colorado commission on higher education - student bill of rights - general education course guidelines - core courses - competency testing - applicability. Establishes a student bill of rights. Establishes a standard of a 120-hour baccalaureate degree.
Requires the Colorado commission on higher education ("commission"), in consultation with each public institution of higher education, to outline a plan to implement a core course concept which will define the general education course guidelines for Colorado's public institutions of higher education. Specifies that the core courses will consist of 30 to 40 credit hours and shall be designed to ensure that students demonstrate competency in reading, critical thinking, written communication, mathematics, and technology. Requires individual public institutions of higher education to conform their own core course requirements with the guidelines developed and to identify the courses that meet the guidelines. Specifies that, if a statewide matrix of core courses is adopted, the courses identified by the individual institutions as meeting the general education course guidelines shall be included in the matrix. Requires the commission to establish a process for students to test out of core courses and receive credit for those courses.
Makes the act applicable to all students first enrolling as freshman for the academic year 2003-04 and subsequent academic years.
APPROVED by Governor June 6, 2001
EFFECTIVE June 6, 2001
H.B. 01-1275 Colorado institute of technology - number of trustees - elimination of chief operating officer. Eliminates the position of chief operating officer of the Colorado institute of technology. Increases the number of members of the board of trustees of the institute from 13 to 14. Requires that at least 1 board member appointed from institutions of higher education be a representative of a nonpublic institution.
APPROVED by Governor April 19, 2001
EFFECTIVE August 8, 2001
NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause. For further explanation concerning the effective date, see the note from page vi of this digest.
H.B. 01-1293 Early childhood professional loan repayment program - conditional repeal - appropriation. Requires the Colorado commission on higher education to establish and maintain an early childhood professional loan repayment program ("program"). Specifies the qualifications for the program. Makes qualified early childhood professionals eligible for up to $1,000 of loan repayment per year for 2 years.
Repeals the program, either July 1, 2007, or July 1 in the year following the year in which either the state fails to receive federal child care development fund moneys or the portion of federal child care development fund moneys used to fund the program become subject to a state participation requirement, whichever is earlier.
Appropriates $130,000 from the federal child care development fund to the department of human services and subsequently to the department of higher education.
APPROVED by Governor June 1, 2001
EFFECTIVE July 1, 2001
H.B. 01-1298 Course numbering system - creation - review - fund. Directs the Colorado commission on higher education ("commission") to convene a council ("council") that includes representatives from all of the state-supported institutions of higher education ("higher education institutions") and their governing boards, representatives of students enrolled in each type of higher education institution, and a representative of the commission.
Instructs the council to recommend to the commission a statewide articulation matrix system of common course numbering ("course numbering system") to which general education courses offered by each higher education institution may be mapped. Establishes the procedure and time lines for developing the recommendations. Directs the council annually to review the course numbering system and make recommendations as necessary to maintain the integrity of the system.
Directs the commission to adopt a course numbering system for general education courses. Requires each higher education institution to review its general education course offerings and identify those courses that correspond to the courses included in the course numbering system. Directs the commission to review and approve each higher education institution's list of identified courses. Beginning in the fall semester of 2003, requires each higher education institution to publish a list of the identified courses.
Specifies that all credits earned by a student in a course that corresponds to a course included in the course numbering system shall transfer among all higher education institutions. Requires all higher education institutions to participate in the course numbering system. Directs the commission to adopt such necessary policies and procedures for implementation of the course numbering system.
Directs the council to devise and the commission to implement a statewide tracking system to track students' success in transferring among higher education institutions. Directs the commission to design and implement a statewide database for implementation of the act.
Specifies that the commission may accept any public or private gifs, grants, or donations for the implementation of the course numbering system.
APPROVED by Governor June 5, 2001
EFFECTIVE June 5, 2001
H.B. 01-1368 Modify composition of regents of the university of Colorado. To effectuate changes in the composition of the regents of the university of Colorado that are necessitated by the addition of a 7th congressional district in Colorado, replaces the at large regent of the university of Colorado to be elected at the 2002 general election and each 6 years thereafter with a regent to be elected from the 7th congressional district.
APPROVED by Governor June 5, 2001
EFFECTIVE August 8, 2001
NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause. For further explanation concerning the effective date, see the note from page vi of this digest.
H.B. 01-1406 State board of agriculture - university of southern Colorado - report - assessment of name change - role and mission modifications - public meetings. Requires the state board of agriculture ("board") to work with the university of southern Colorado ("university") to prepare a report that assesses the value to the region served by the university of changing the name of the university and modifying the role and mission of the university. Requires the report to include a plan that details how the university will meet specified goals. If a committee or task force to study higher education during the 2001 interim is established or there is any joint meeting of the education committees, requires the board and the university to issue a status report to said committees or task force by September 15, 2001. Directs the board and the university to issue the report to the education committees of the house of representatives and the senate by December 15, 2001. Instructs the university, prior to issuing the report to the education committees, to hold at least 2 public meetings to discuss the report.
BECAME LAW June 9, 2001
EFFECTIVE June 9, 2001
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