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EXPLANATION: direct che to study university systems that have branch and satellite campus separated out as agencies in the budget and make recommendations on whether it would be effective and efficient to merge them under one system
Amend the bill, as and if amended, Part IB, Section 11,
COMMISSION ON HIGHER EDUCATION, page 374, after line 34, by
adding an appropriately numbered paragraph to read:
/ (CHE: Satellite & Branch Campuses Study) The
Commission on Higher Education is directed to study all
university systems that have two or four year branch or
satellite campuses delineated in the appropriation act with
separate agency and section numbers and develop a plan to bring
all such campuses within that university system under one
central system authority. The study shall include, but not be
limited to, identification of cost efficiencies and
effectiveness outcomes that would result from such
consolidation; current and proposed administrative
organizational structure; current and proposed funding decision
structure, including an explanation of how decisions are made
regarding campus fiscal and physical needs. A report on the
findings of the study shall be submitted by February 3, 2014, to
the Chairman of the House Education and Public Works Committee,
the Chairman of the Senate Education Committee, the Chairman of
the House Ways and Means Committee, and the Chairman of the
Senate Finance Committee. A link to the report shall also be
posted on the Commission on Higher Education and the pertinent
university's website./
Renumber sections to conform.
Amend totals and titles to conform.