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| 12 | 12 | | AN ACT CONCERNING THE PROMOTION OF TRANSFER AND ARTICULATION AGREEMENTS. |
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| 14 | 14 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened: |
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| 16 | 16 | | Section 1. (NEW) (Effective July 1, 2018) (a) The Office of Higher Education shall establish the ConneCT4 program. The ConneCT4 program shall promote existing transfer and articulation agreements developed between the regional community-technical colleges and four-year public and independent institutions of higher education through a state-wide marketing campaign and the creation of the ConneCT4 Internet web site. The ConneCT4 Internet web site shall include the terms of the transfer and articulation agreements and allow users to compare said agreements. Each public institution of higher education shall include a direct link on its Internet web site to the ConneCT4 Internet web site. |
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| 18 | 18 | | (b) The Office of Higher Education shall review existing model transfer and articulation programs in other states and the technology used to administer and promote such programs for purposes of implementing the ConneCT4 program. |
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| 20 | 20 | | Sec. 2. Subsection (c) of section 10a-11b of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 1, 2017): |
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| 22 | 22 | | (c) In developing the higher education strategic master plan, the commission shall review the plans pursuant to sections 10a-6 and 10a-11. In addition, the commission may consider the following: (1) Establishing incentives for institutional performance and productivity; (2) increasing financial aid incentive programs, especially in workforce shortage areas and for minority students; (3) implementing mandatory college preparatory curricula in high schools and aligning such curricula with curricula in institutions of higher education; (4) seeking partnerships with the business community and public institutions of higher education to serve the needs of workforce retraining that may include bridge programs in which businesses work directly with higher education institutions to move students into identified workforce shortage areas; (5) establishing collaborative partnerships between public high schools and institutions of higher education; (6) implementing programs in high school to assist high school students seeking a college track or alternative pathways for post-secondary education, such as vocational and technical opportunities; (7) developing policies to promote and measure retention and graduation rates of students, including graduation rates for students who have transferred among two or more constituent units or public institutions of higher education; (8) developing policies to promote the transfer and articulation program and the guaranteed admission program state-wide; (9) addressing the educational needs of minority students and nontraditional students, including, but not limited to, part-time students, incumbent workers, adult learners, former inmates and immigrants, in order to increase enrollment and retention in institutions of higher education; and [(9)] (10) addressing the affordability of tuition at institutions of higher education and the issue of increased student indebtedness. |
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| 27 | 27 | | This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections: |
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| 28 | 28 | | Section 1 July 1, 2018 New section |
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| 29 | 29 | | Sec. 2 July 1, 2017 10a-11b(c) |
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| 31 | 31 | | This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections: |
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| 33 | 33 | | Section 1 |
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| 35 | 35 | | July 1, 2018 |
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| 37 | 37 | | New section |
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| 39 | 39 | | Sec. 2 |
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| 41 | 41 | | July 1, 2017 |
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| 43 | 43 | | 10a-11b(c) |
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| 47 | 47 | | HED Joint Favorable Subst. |
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