ENROLLED
2020 Regular Session
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOL UTION NO. 45
BY REPRESENTATIVE HODGES
A CONCURRENT RESOL UTION
To urge and request the Board of Regents, in consultation with public postsecondary
education management boards, to study issues and compile data relative to faculty
at public postsecondary education institutions.
WHEREAS, it is in the best interest of the state of Louisiana for the Board of
Regents to study a number of issues relative to faculty members at the state's public
postsecondary education institutions; and
WHEREAS, the Legislature of Louisiana is interested in how the board and public
postsecondary education institutions recruit educators from Louisiana to become professors
and adjunct professors at their institutions; and
WHEREAS, the legislature is also interested in the number of professors in
Louisiana and in the United States broken down by home state or country; and
WHEREAS, a determination of what, if any language requirements, are imposed
upon faculty would also be valuable.
THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana does
hereby urge and request the Board of Regents, in consultation with the public postsecondary
education management boards, to study matters relating to the home state or country of the
faculty at public postsecondary education institutions, efforts to recruit Louisiana residents
as faculty at such institutions, and language requirements for faculty and to report its
findings to the House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education no
later than sixty days prior to the convening of the 2021 Regular Session of the Legislature
of Louisiana.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
commissioner of higher education.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
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