By Coleman H.B. No. 2285
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to requiring institutions of higher education to report
1-3 certain information.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is
1-6 amended by adding Section 51.929 to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 51.929. ANNUAL REPORTS BY GENERAL ACADEMIC TEACHING
1-8 INSTITUTIONS OF DIVERSITY STATISTICS. (a) Not later than November
1-9 1 of each year, each general academic teaching institution shall
1-10 provide a written report to the coordinating board that contains
1-11 for the preceding academic year, except as otherwise provided by
1-12 this subsection, the following information by ethnicity or race and
1-13 by sex:
1-14 (1) the total enrollment, freshman enrollment,
1-15 sophomore enrollment, junior enrollment, senior enrollment,
1-16 post-baccalaureate enrollment, master's enrollment, doctoral
1-17 enrollment, and special-professional enrollment of the institution;
1-18 (2) the number of students who graduated from the
1-19 institution with baccalaureate, postbaccalaureate, professional,
1-20 master's, or doctoral degrees;
1-21 (3) the percent of first-time, full-time freshmen who
1-22 earn a baccalaureate degree from the institution not later than the
1-23 sixth anniversary of the date the freshmen first enroll at the
2-1 institution;
2-2 (4) the retention rate of first-time, full-time
2-3 freshmen after the first anniversary of the date the freshmen first
2-4 enroll at the institution;
2-5 (5) the pass rate of graduates of the institution who
2-6 take the accounting, architecture, engineering, nursing, pharmacy,
2-7 veterinary medicine, or education state licensing examination;
2-8 (6) the number of public junior college transfer
2-9 students who enroll at the institution;
2-10 (7) the number of public junior college transfer
2-11 students who graduate from the public university;
2-12 (8) the number of students enrolled at the institution
2-13 who receive financial aid by amount of that aid;
2-14 (9) the number of students enrolled at the institution
2-15 who receive academic scholarships by amount of those scholarships;
2-16 (10) the total number of faculty members and the
2-17 number of adjunct-special, visiting, teaching assistant, lecturer,
2-18 instructor, assistant, associate, and full professor faculty
2-19 members by department, graduate program, professional school,
2-20 tenured faculty, and tenure track faculty at the institution;
2-21 (11) categories of faculty salaries for
2-22 adjunct-special, visiting, teaching assistant, lecturer,
2-23 instructor, associate, assistant, and full professor faculty
2-24 members employed by the institution;
2-25 (12) the general intramural and research enhancement
3-1 funds awarded to faculty members employed by the institution;
3-2 (13) the percentage of library materials devoted to
3-3 ethnic or racial studies and women's studies;
3-4 (14) the biennial growth rate for the items described
3-5 by Subdivision 13 of this subsection;
3-6 (15) the number of students enrolled at the
3-7 institution who participate in varsity, intramural, or club sports;
3-8 (16) the number of athletic scholarships offered at
3-9 the institution;
3-10 (17) the number of athletes enrolled at the
3-11 institution who receive financial aid, by ethnicity or race only;
3-12 (18) the number of coaches at the institution for each
3-13 sport by salary category, by sex only;
3-14 (19) the number and a description of the graduate
3-15 degrees offered at the institution;
3-16 (20) the number and a description of the majors
3-17 offered at the institution;
3-18 (21) the number and a description of the departments
3-19 at the institution;
3-20 (22) the number and a description of the academic
3-21 programs at the institution;
3-22 (23) the number of nonfaculty personnel broken down by
3-23 the following categories:
3-24 (A) executive, administrative, or managerial;
3-25 (B) professional or nonfaculty;
4-1 (C) secreterial or clerical;
4-2 (D) technical or paraprofession; and
4-3 (E) service or crafts staff;
4-4 (24) the number of members of the governing board of
4-5 the institution;
4-6 (25) the number of incidents of conduct that:
4-7 (A) is based on race or ethnicity; and
4-8 (B) offends or angers a reasonable individual
4-9 who is a member of that race or who is of that ethnicity; and
4-10 (26) the number of incidents of unwelcome sexual
4-11 advances, requests for sexual favors, or other verbal or physical
4-12 conduct of a sexual nature, submission to which is made an explicit
4-13 or implicit condition of an individual's exercise or enjoyment of
4-14 any right, privilege, or power that occur at the institution.
4-15 (b) The coordinating board shall adopt rules to implement
4-16 this section and to ensure that general academic teaching
4-17 institutions comply with this section.
4-18 (c) Not later than January 31 of each year, the coordinating
4-19 board shall compile the information provided under Subsection (a)
4-20 of this section into a single annual report and shall provide that
4-21 report to the governor, the lieutenant governor, the speaker of the
4-22 house of representatives, and appropriate senate and house standing
4-23 committees.
4-24 (d) In this section:
4-25 (1) "Coordinating board" means the Texas Higher
5-1 Education Coordinating Board.
5-2 (2) "General academic teaching institution" has the
5-3 meaning assigned by Section 61.003 of this code.
5-4 SECTION 2. (a) The Texas Higher Education Coordinating
5-5 Board shall adopt initial rules required by Section 51.929,
5-6 Education Code, as added by this Act, not later than November 1,
5-7 1993.
5-8 (b) Notwithstanding Section 51.929, Education Code, as added
5-9 by this Act, general academic teaching institutions shall report
5-10 the information required by that section beginning with the
5-11 1995-1996 academic year.
5-12 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
5-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
5-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
5-15 constitutional rule requiring bills be read on three several days
5-16 in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.