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House Bill 736 |
House Author: Patrick, Diane et al. |
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Effective: 6-17-11 |
Senate Sponsor: West |
House Bill 736 amends the Education Code to require each general academic teaching institution to make available to the public on the institution's Internet website certain faculty information for the institution and to require each institution to update this information for the preceding academic or fiscal year, as applicable. The bill makes the administrator designated by such an institution to ensure the implementation of Internet access to certain undergraduate course information responsible also for ensuring the implementation of Internet access to the specified faculty data and authorizes the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to adopt rules necessary to administer these provisions.
House Bill 736 specifies the placement and distinguishing font characteristic of the link to the online resume of each institution of higher education that is maintained by the coordinating board, which link must appear on the homepages of the Internet websites of the coordinating board and of each institution, respectively, and establishes additional requirements for the contents of such institutional resumes, including requirements relating to transfer student data; student loan, grant, and scholarship information; additional measures of student success; sources of institutional funding; and additional student cost data.
House Bill 736 requires the coordinating board and the Texas Workforce Commission to develop jointly a comprehensive strategy to improve and coordinate the dissemination of online information regarding the operation and performance of career schools or colleges in Texas and to organize the information as nearly as possible according to the categories of information required for the online resumes of lower-division public institutions.
The bill also requires the coordinating board to create and post on the coordinating board's website a comparison tool that allows a person to compare general academic teaching institutions that meet certain criteria selected by the person, including offering a particular major or program.