82R9835 KYF-F
By: Branch H.B. No. 3516
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to requiring a public institution of higher education to
make certain faculty information available to the public on the
institution's Internet website.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 51.9745 to read as follows:
Sec. 51.9745. INTERNET ACCESS TO FACULTY INFORMATION. (a)
Each institution of higher education, other than a medical and
dental unit, as defined by Section 61.003, shall make available to
the public on the institution's Internet website the following
information for the institution:
(1) the student/faculty ratio;
(2) the percentage of all full-time equivalent faculty
members with teaching responsibility who are tenured or tenure
track;
(3) the percentage of semester credit hours taken by
students classified as freshmen or sophomores that are taught by
tenured and tenure track faculty members;
(4) the number of faculty members in each of the
following faculty ranks, including a breakdown for each rank
showing the numbers of faculty members by race, ethnicity, and
gender:
(A) professor;
(B) associate professor;
(C) assistant professor;
(D) instructor;
(E) nontenured or nontenure track; and
(F) teaching assistant;
(5) average faculty salaries by rank;
(6) the amount of money appropriated by the
legislature per full-time equivalent faculty member and full-time
equivalent student;
(7) the total revenue the institution spent per
full-time equivalent faculty member and full-time equivalent
student;
(8) the amount of federal and private research
expenditures per tenured or tenure track full-time equivalent
faculty member;
(9) the number and percentage of faculty members
holding extramural research grants;
(10) the number and names of awards to faculty members
from nationally recognized entities, including those identified by
The Center for Measuring University Performance; and
(11) the number of endowed professorships or chairs.
(b) Each institution of higher education shall update the
information required by Subsection (a) for the preceding academic
or fiscal year, as applicable, not later than December 31 of each
year.
(c) The administrator designated by an institution of
higher education under Section 51.974 shall be responsible for
ensuring implementation of this section. The administrator may
assign duties under this section to one or more administrative
employees.
(d) The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board may adopt
rules necessary to administer this section, including rules to
ensure the consistency of information made available by
institutions of higher education under this section.
SECTION 2. Section 51.9745, Education Code, as added by
this Act, applies beginning with the 2012 fall semester.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.