H*3983 Session 107 (1987-1988)
H*3983(Rat #0736, Act #0629 of 1988) General Bill, By
House Education and Public Works
A Bill to amend the Code of Laws of South Carolina, 1976, by adding Chapter
104 to Title 59 so as to provide initiatives for research and academic
excellence by detailing the goals of the Commission on Higher Education
relating to excellence for students, instruction and educational services,
research for economic development, and improving accountability through
planning and assessment; to amend Section 59-103-10, relating to the
membership of the Commission, so as to provide for the appointment of the
members from each Congressional District to be based upon the recommendation
of the majority of the legislative delegation members from the District,
provide that six members must be appointed from the State at large with the
advice and consent of the Senate, provide for the determination of when a
member has served the maximum number of terms, require members recommended by
the General Assembly to be residents of the appropriate Congressional
District, and delete provisions relating to representation on the Commission
and notification of meetings; Section 59-103-35, relating to submission of
budgets to the Commission by public institutions of higher learning, so as to
require the budgets to include funds derived from approved private practice
plans, provide for programs at a technical and comprehensive education
institution not to be terminated pursuant to the Commision's recommendation
which is the subject of an appeal, and delete the provisions detailing time
limits on federal grant review and budget review format requirements and the
provisions requiring General Assembly approval of a new program, limiting the
application of the Chapter, and limiting the termination of existing programs;
and Section 59-113-10, relating to the Higher Education Tuition Grant
Committee, so as to change the reference to committee to commission, provide
for the Chief Executive Officer of the Commission on Higher Education or his
designee to serve on this Commission, provide for this Commission to be
responsible solely to the General Assembly and report at least annually to
that body, and delete the provisions for the initial committee members; to
provide for the continued service of the present Commission members and the
terms of new members; to direct the Code Commissioner to change the references
to the Higher Education Tuition Grant Committee in the Code to the Higher
Education Tuition Grant Commission; and to provide for the Commission to
conduct a study of out-of-state and in-state student enrollments in South
Carolina and neighboring states and to report to the General Assembly.-amended
title
03/16/88 House Introduced, read first time, placed on calendar
without reference HJ-2116
03/23/88 House Debate adjourned until Tuesday, March 29, 1988 HJ-224
04/06/88 House Amended HJ-2510
04/06/88 House Read second time HJ-2511
04/06/88 House Unanimous consent for third reading on next
legislative day HJ-2511
04/07/88 House Read third time and sent to Senate HJ-2562
04/13/88 Senate Introduced and read first time SJ-59
04/13/88 Senate Referred to Committee on Education SJ-60
04/21/88 Senate Committee report: Favorable with amendment
Education SJ-10
05/05/88 Senate Special order SJ-49
05/11/88 Senate Amended SJ-25
05/11/88 Senate Read second time SJ-29
05/11/88 Senate Ordered to third reading with notice of
amendments SJ-29
05/19/88 Senate Amended SJ-12
05/19/88 Senate Read third time SJ-17
05/19/88 Senate Returned SJ-17
05/24/88 House Senate amendment amended HJ-3921
05/24/88 House Returned HJ-3939
05/25/88 Senate Non-concurrence in House amendment SJ-28
05/26/88 House House insists upon amendment and conference
committee appointed Reps. L Phillips, Beasley &
McGinnis HJ-4104
05/26/88 Senate Conference committee appointed Sens. Garrison,
Courson, Setzler SJ-54
06/01/88 House Free conference powers granted HJ-4570
06/01/88 House Free conference committee appointed L Phillips,
Beasley & McGinnis HJ-4573
06/01/88 House Free conference report received HJ-4573
06/01/88 House Free conference report adopted HJ-4589
06/01/88 Senate Free conference powers granted SJ-84
06/01/88 Senate Free conference committee appointed Sens.
Courson, Garrison, Setzler SJ-86
06/01/88 Senate Free conference report received SJ-104
06/01/88 Senate Free conference report adopted SJ-104
06/02/88 Senate Ordered enrolled for ratification SJ-104
06/02/88 Ratified R 736
06/07/88 Signed By Governor
06/07/88 Effective date 06/07/88
06/07/88 Act No. 629
06/21/88 Copies available
(A629, R736, H3983)
AN ACT TO AMEND THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, BY ADDING CHAPTER 104
TO TITLE 59 SO AS TO PROVIDE INITIATIVES FOR RESEARCH AND ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE BY
DETAILING THE GOALS OF THE COMMISSION ON HIGHER EDUCATION RELATING TO EXCELLENCE
FOR STUDENTS, INSTRUCTION AND EDUCATIONAL SERVICES, RESEARCH FOR ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT, AND IMPROVING ACCOUNTABILITY THROUGH PLANNING AND ASSESSMENT; TO
AMEND SECTION 59-103-10, RELATING TO THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE COMMISSION, SO AS TO
PROVIDE FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF THE MEMBERS FROM EACH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT TO
BE BASED UPON THE RECOMMENDATION OF THE MAJORITY OF THE LEGISLATIVE DELEGATION
MEMBERS FROM THE DISTRICT, PROVIDE THAT SIX MEMBERS MUST BE APPOINTED FROM THE
STATE AT LARGE WITH THE ADVICE AND CONSENT OF THE SENATE, PROVIDE FOR THE
DETERMINATION OF WHEN A MEMBER HAS SERVED THE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF TERMS, REQUIRE
MEMBERS RECOMMENDED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO BE RESIDENTS OF THE APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT, AND DELETE PROVISIONS RELATING TO REPRESENTATION ON THE
COMMISSION AND NOTIFICATION OF MEETINGS; SECTION 59-103-35, RELATING TO
SUBMISSION OF BUDGETS TO THE COMMISSION BY PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER
LEARNING, SO AS TO REQUIRE THE BUDGETS TO INCLUDE FUNDS DERIVED FROM APPROVED
PRIVATE PRACTICE PLANS, PROVIDE FOR PROGRAMS AT A TECHNICAL AND COMPREHENSIVE
EDUCATION INSTITUTION NOT TO BE TERMINATED PURSUANT TO THE COMMISSION'S
RECOMMENDATION WHICH IS THE SUBJECT OF AN APPEAL, AND DELETE THE PROVISIONS
DETAILING TIME LIMITS ON FEDERAL GRANT REVIEW AND BUDGET REVIEW FORMAT
REQUIREMENTS AND THE PROVISIONS REQUIRING GENERAL ASSEMBLY APPROVAL OF A NEW
PROGRAM, LIMITING THE APPLICATION OF THE CHAPTER, AND LIMITING THE TERMINATION
OF EXISTING PROGRAMS; AND SECTION 59-113-10, RELATING TO THE HIGHER EDUCATION
TUITION GRANT COMMITTEE, SO AS TO CHANGE THE REFERENCE TO COMMITTEE TO
COMMISSION, PROVIDE FOR THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF THE COMMISSION ON HIGHER
EDUCATION OR HIS DESIGNEE TO SERVE ON THIS COMMISSION, PROVIDE FOR THIS
COMMISSION TO BE RESPONSIBLE SOLELY TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY AND REPORT AT LEAST
ANNUALLY TO THAT BODY, AND DELETE THE PROVISIONS FOR THE INITIAL COMMITTEE
MEMBERS; TO PROVIDE FOR THE CONTINUED SERVICE OF THE PRESENT COMMISSION MEMBERS
AND THE TERMS OF NEW MEMBERS; TO DIRECT THE CODE COMMISSIONER TO CHANGE THE
REFERENCES TO THE HIGHER EDUCATION TUITION GRANT COMMITTEE IN THE CODE TO THE
HIGHER EDUCATION TUITION GRANT COMMISSION; AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE COMMISSION TO
CONDUCT A STUDY OF OUT-OF-STATE AND IN-STATE STUDENT ENROLLMENTS IN SOUTH
CAROLINA AND NEIGHBORING STATES AND TO REPORT TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
Initiatives for research and academic excellence
SECTION 1. Title 59 of the 1976 Code is amended by adding:
"CHAPTER 104
Initiatives for Research and
Academic Excellence
Article 1
Excellence for Students
Section 59-104-10. (A) In consultation and coordination with the public
institutions of higher learning in this State, the State Commission on Higher
Education shall ensure that minimal admissions standards are maintained by the
institutions.
The commission, with the institutions, shall monitor the effect of compliance
with admissions prerequisites that are effective in fall, 1988.
(B) The boards of trustees of each public institution of higher learning,
excluding the State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education, shall adopt
admission policies reflecting the desired mix of in-state and out-of-state
enrollment appropriate for each institution. Changes in the policies affecting
the mix of in-state and out-of-state enrollment must be approved by the board of
trustees of the affected institution. The boards shall submit the policies to
the commission by July 1, 1989, and any subsequent changes to the policies must
be submitted to the commission. For purposes of this section enrollment must be
calculated on a full-time equivalency basis with the equivalent of one full-time
student being a student enrolled for thirty credit hours in an academic year.
Out-of-state students means students who are not eligible for in-state rates for
tuition and fees under Chapter 112 of Title 59.
Section 59-104-20. The Palmetto Fellows Scholarship Program is established to
foster scholarship among the state's postsecondary students and retain
outstanding South Carolina high school graduates in the State through awards
based on scholarship and achievement. Measures must be taken to ensure equitable
minority participation in this program. Recipients of these scholarships are
designated Palmetto Fellows. Each Palmetto Fellow shall receive a scholarship
in an amount designated by the Commission on Higher Education, half to be
provided by the postsecondary institution at which he is enrolled. The
commission shall promulgate regulations and establish procedures to administer
the program and request annual state appropriations for the program.
Section 59-104-30. Each public institution of higher learning in this State
shall develop a plan for developmental education in accord with provisions,
procedures, and requirements developed by the Commission on Higher Education.
The commission shall conduct a study as well as evaluations and reviews of
developmental education in this State. The commission shall develop appropriate
methods of funding developmental education programs and courses.
Section 59-104-40. (A) The technical education system in this State shall
convert from the quarter calendar to the semester calendar, if funds are
appropriated for this purpose. The Commission on Higher Education shall request
state appropriations for the conversion to be funded and completed over a
two-year period.
(B) The State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education, in consultation
with the commission, shall limit the offering of courses designed for college
transfer in those technical colleges that do not have approved college transfer
programs. The offering of 'college parallel' general education courses in
institutions not authorized to award the associate in arts or associate in
science degree is limited to those necessary to support approved nontransfer
programs. The commission, after consultation with the State Board for Technical
and Comprehensive Education and with public senior colleges and universities,
shall establish rules and procedures by which this limitation must be regulated.
The commission shall continue to work with all of the institutions to improve
articulation concerning courses acceptable for transfer.
Article III
Excellence in Instruction and
Educational Services
Section 59-104-210. A competitive grants program is established to improve
undergraduate education in South Carolina. The State Commission on Higher
Education shall administer the program, promulgate appropriate regulations, and
request annual state appropriations for this purpose. All public and private
nonproprietary postsecondary institutions accredited by the Commission on
Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools are eligible to
participate in this program.
Section 59-104-220. The Governor's Professor of the Year Award is established
as follows:
(1) Each public or private institution of higher learning in this State is
eligible to nominate one faculty member for this award who has demonstrated
exceptional teaching performance.
(2) The Governor's office in conjunction with the Commission on Higher
Education shall establish a committee to choose the Professor of the Year. The
committee must consist of representatives of the Governor's office, the
commission, and appropriate civic, business, government, and academic
organizations.
(3) The award must include a citation and a payment of five thousand dollars.
The Governor's office shall host an appropriate ceremony at which the award must
be presented.
(4) The commission shall request annual state appropriations for the award.
Section 59-104-230. The Commission on Higher Education shall request state
funds and establish procedures to implement a program of endowed professorships
at senior public institutions of higher learning to enable the institutions to
attract or retain productive faculty scholars who are making or show promise of
making substantial contributions to the intellectual life of the State.
Each professorship must be supported by the income from an endowment fund
created especially for that purpose. Half of the corpus of each fund must be
provided by the commission through this program, and half must be provided by the
institution from private funds specifically donated for this purpose.
The State Treasurer shall establish a separate fund consisting of any funds
appropriated for all endowed professorships plus accrued interest received. Any
amount remaining in the established fund at the end of any fiscal year must be
carried forward to the next fiscal year to be used for endowed professorships.
Funds in the specified amounts to support each endowment may be transferred by
the commission to each eligible institution.
Section 59-104-240. (A) The Commission on Higher Education shall request state
funds by 1990 to implement a program to endow salary enhancements for outstanding
faculty in technical colleges and two-year campuses of the University of South
Carolina. The purpose of the program is to enable the state's two-year college
systems to retain and reward outstanding instructional personnel.
(B) The commission, in collaboration with the State Board for Technical and
Comprehensive Education and the University of South Carolina, shall establish
procedures to implement the program. Each salary enhancement must be supported
by an endowment fund created especially for that purpose. Half of the corpus of
each fund must be provided by the commission through this program, and half must
be provided by the institution from private sources specifically donated for this
purpose.
(C) The State Treasurer shall establish a separate fund consisting of any
funds appropriated for all salary enhancements plus accrued interest received.
Any amount remaining in the established fund at the end of any fiscal year must
be carried forward to the next fiscal year to be used for salary enhancements.
Funds in the specified amounts to support each salary enhancement may be
transferred by the commission to each eligible institution.
Section 59-104-250. All libraries in the technical colleges in this State
shall convert to a computer-based automated system that is compatible with
existing state library systems and allows for appropriate networking with public
colleges and universities if funds are appropriated for this purpose. The
Commission on Higher Education shall request special appropriations to accomplish
the conversion.
Section 59-104-260. The Commission on Higher Education shall encourage the
development of joint programs that take advantage of the strengths of the public
colleges and universities and discourage the development of independent
competitive programs. The programs must be developed through planning and
cooperation among the institutions in both academic and nonacademic areas.
Article V
Excellence in Research For Economic Development
Section 59-104-410. A Research Investment Fund is created to establish or
expand research programs in public institutions of higher learning in this State
which are related to the continued economic development of South Carolina. The
fund must consist of appropriations to the State Commission on Higher Education
which it allocates to the institutions for research. The funds must be
apportioned among the three senior universities and the four-year colleges in a
manner that takes into account the previous year's expenditures of externally
generated funds for research by the institutions as reported to the commission.
However, the commission may make exceptions to accommodate economic development
opportunities in any area of the State.
Section 59-104-420. (A) The fund must be used for research which:
(1) has a direct, positive impact on economic development, education,
health, or welfare in this State;
(2) has an existing base in faculty expertise, resources, and facilities;
(3) serves to improve the quality of undergraduate and graduate education
for South Carolina citizens in accordance with the institutions' stated missions
as given in the commission's master plan.
(B) The fund must not be used for capital construction projects.
Section 59-104-430. At the end of each fiscal year, comprehensive reports must
be made to the Commission on Higher Education on the expenditures of funds and
the results realized from the research programs. At the end of two fiscal years
and each fiscal year after that, the commission shall reexamine the process of
appropriating funds for research and the results obtained from the expenditures
and recommend changes and alterations in the funding of research by the State if
the changes are considered advisable by the commission.
Section 59-104-440. (A) With the exception of the University of South
Carolina, Clemson University, and the Medical University of South Carolina,
institutions seeking financial support from the fund for research projects shall
submit proposals to the commission for its review and approval.
(B) The portion of the fund allocated to the three senior universities
excepted in subsection (A) must be distributed in a manner that takes into
account the previous year's expenditures of externally generated funds for
research which each university reported to the commission.
(C) No funds allocated under the provisions of this chapter nor matching funds
received pursuant to terms of this chapter may be used to increase an
institution's future years' formula funding as computed by the Commission on
Higher Education.
Article VII
Improving Accountability Through
Planning and Assessment
Section 59-104-610. The State Commission on Higher Education shall maintain
a statewide planning system to address strategic issues in public and private
higher education. The system must focus upon the following goals to:
(1) identify future directions for higher education in South Carolina and
recommend appropriate methods for meeting the resultant challenges;
(2) review major goals identified by the public and private institutions of
higher learning in this State and ascertain their relationship to higher
education in South Carolina;
(3) assure the maintenance and continued development of the quality of higher
education in South Carolina;
(4) assure the maintenance and continued provision of access to and equality
of educational opportunity in higher education in South Carolina.
Section 59-104-620. (A) The Commission on Higher Education shall establish an
Advisory Council on Planning to assist the commission and the institutions of
higher learning in maintaining planning as a high priority.
(B) The advisory council shall report to the executive committee of the
commission, which shall serve as the standing committee on planning for the
commission.
(C) The advisory council shall submit to the executive committee of the
commission its advice, reports, and draft plans.
Section 59-104-630. The Commission on Higher Education shall ensure that each
public institution of higher learning in this State maintains its individual
planning process.
Section 59-104-640. (A) The chief executive officer of the Commission on
Higher Education shall develop a prospectus for planning each year.
(B) In the initial year, the Advisory Council on Planning is responsible for
developing a statewide planning document for submission to the commission.
(C) After the initial year and annually, the advisory council shall prepare
revisions of the planning document for consideration by the commission. The
revisions must conform to, but need not be limited to, the prospectus provided
by the commission.
Section 59-104-650. (A) The goals for maintaining an effective system of
quality assessment by institutions of higher learning in South Carolina are to:
(1) assure that a system for measuring institutional effectiveness is in
effect on every public college and university campus in this State;
(2) provide a vehicle for disseminating the results of outcome measurements
to the constituents within the State;
(3) provide data relative to the effectiveness of each institution that can
be used to initiate curriculum, programmatic, or policy changes within the
institution.
(B) The process by which these goals must be attained is as follows:
(1) Each institution of higher learning is responsible for maintaining a
system to measure institutional effectiveness in accord with provisions,
procedures, and requirements developed by the Commission on Higher Education.
The system for measuring institutional effectiveness must include, but is not
limited to, a description of criteria by which institutional effectiveness is
being assessed.
(2) As a part of South Carolina's statewide planning process, each
institution shall provide the commission with an annual report on the results of
its institutional effectiveness program.
(3) The commission shall prepare a report that must include results of
institutional effectiveness, including student assessment programs. Information
from private colleges and universities must be included for those institutions
that voluntarily provide the information to the commission.
Section 59-104-660. (A) All state-supported institutions of higher learning
shall establish their own procedures and programs to measure student achievement.
The procedures and programs must be submitted to the Commission on Higher
Education as part of the plan for measuring institutional effectiveness and must:
(1) derive from institutional initiatives, recognizing the diversity of
South Carolina public colleges and universities, the tradition of institutional
autonomy, and the capacity of faculty and administrators to identify their own
problems and solve them creatively;
(2) be consistent with each institution's mission and educational
objectives;
(3) involve faculty in setting the standards of achievement, selecting the
measurement instruments, and analyzing the results;
(4) follow student progress through the curriculum, as appropriate;
(5) include follow-up of graduates.
(B) As part of their annual report on institutional effectiveness, all
state-supported colleges and universities shall describe their progress in
developing assessment programs and submit information on student achievement to
the commission."
Membership
SECTION 2. Section 59-103-10 of the 1976 Code is amended to read:
"Section 59-103-10. There is created the State Commission on Higher
Education. Two members must be appointed by the Governor from each congressional
district upon the recommendation of the majority of the legislative delegation
members from the district. Six members must be appointed by the Governor from
the State at large with the advice and consent of the Senate. Members must be
appointed for terms of four years and until their successors are appointed and
qualify. No one is eligible to serve on the commission for more than two
consecutive terms. A term served by a member which is less than a full four-year
term must not be counted in determining when a member has served the maximum
number of terms. No member may be an employee or member of a governing body of
a public or private institution of higher learning in this State. The Governor,
by his appointments, shall assure that various economic interests and minority
groups, especially women and blacks, are fairly represented on the commission and
shall attempt to assure that the graduates of no one public or private college
or technical college are dominant on the commission. Vacancies must be filled
in the manner of the original appointment for the unexpired portion of the term.
The chairman of the commission must be elected annually by the members of the
commission and may not serve as chairman for more than four consecutive years.
Members recommended by the General Assembly must be residents of the appropriate
congressional district. If the boundaries of congressional districts are
changed, members serving on the commission continue to serve until the expiration
of their terms, but successors to members whose terms expire must be appointed
from the newly defined congressional district. If a congressional district is
added, the commission must be enlarged to include representation from that
district."
Budgets of public institutions of higher learning programs
SECTION 3. Section 59-103-35 of the 1976 Code is amended to read:
"Section 59-103-35. All public institutions of higher learning shall
submit line-item budgets to the commission in the manner set forth in this
section. The State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education shall submit
a single line-item budget to the commission representing the total request of all
area-wide technical and comprehensive educational institutions. The budget
submitted by each institution and the State Board for Technical and Comprehensive
Education must include all state funds, federal grants, tuition, and fees other
than funds derived wholly from athletic or other student contests, from the
activities of student organizations, from approved private practice plans, and
from the operation of canteens and bookstores which may be retained by the
institutions and be used as determined by the respective governing boards,
subject to annual audit by the State. Fees established by the respective
governing boards for programs, activities, and projects not covered by
appropriations or other revenues may be retained and used by each institution as
previously determined by the respective governing boards, subject to annual audit
by the State.
Supplemental appropriations requests from any public institution of higher
education must be submitted first to the commission. If the commission does not
concur in the requests the affected institution may request a hearing on the
requests before the appropriate committee of the General Assembly. The commission
may appear at the hearing and present its own recommendations and findings to the
same committee.
No new program may be undertaken by any public institution of higher education
without the approval of the commission. The provisions of this chapter apply to
all college parallel, transferable, and associate degree programs of technical
and comprehensive education institutions. All other programs and offerings of
technical and comprehensive education institutions are excluded from this
chapter. The commission has the authority to recommend the termination of an
existing program at any institution within the purview of this chapter. An appeal
from this recommendation must be made by the governing board of an affected
institution within sixty days to the Senate Education Committee and the House
Education and Public Works Committee which shall hear the parties to the appeal.
If both committees refuse to concur in the recommendation for termination, the
program must not be terminated pursuant to the recommendation of the commission
which is the subject of this appeal. A decision must be reached by the committees
within one hundred twenty days from the date of the filing of the appeal."
Name changed; commission members and responsibilities
SECTION 4. Section 59-113-10 of the 1976 Code is amended to read:
"Section 59-113-10. There is created a Higher Education Tuition Grant
Commission consisting of eight representatives of the independent institutions
of higher learning in the State who choose to come under the provisions of this
chapter. In addition, the membership of the commission includes one ex officio
member to be named by the House Committee on Education and Public Works, one ex
officio member to be named by the Senate Committee on Education, and one ex
officio member who must be the chief executive officer of the State Commission
on Higher Education or his designee. The terms of the representatives of the
institutions are for three years and until their successors are selected and
qualify. The membership of the commission must be rotated among the
participating institutions. The commission shall administer the provisions of
this chapter and shall make those regulations as may be necessary in order to
carry out the intent of this chapter. The commission is responsible solely to
the General Assembly and shall report to that body at least annually."
Terms
SECTION 5. (A) Members of the State Commission on Higher Education on the
effective date of this act continue to serve until the expiration of their terms.
(B) Of the nine terms which expire in 1988:
(1) four members must be appointed, one from the third, fourth, fifth, and
sixth congressional districts, upon the recommendation of the majority of the
legislative delegation members from the district, for terms of four years;
(2) two members must be appointed, one from the first and second districts,
upon the recommendation as provided in item (1), for terms of one year initially;
(3) three members must be appointed from the State at large with the advice
and consent of the Senate, for terms of one year initially.
(C) Of the five terms which expire in 1989:
(1) two members must be appointed, one from the first and second districts,
upon the recommendation as provided in item (1) of subsection (B), for terms of
four years;
(2) three members must be appointed from the State at large, with the advice
and consent of the Senate, for terms of four years.
(D) Of the nine terms which expire in 1990:
(1) four members must be appointed, one from the first, second, third, and
fourth districts, upon the recommendation as provided in item (1) of subsection
(B), for terms of four years;
(2) two members must be appointed, one from the fifth and sixth districts,
upon the recommendation as provided in item (1) of subsection (B), for terms of
one year initially;
(3) three members must be appointed from the State at large, with the advice
and consent of the Senate, for terms of one year initially.
(E) Of the five terms which expire in 1991:
(1) two members must be appointed, one from the fifth and sixth districts,
upon the recommendation as provided in item (1) of subsection (B), for terms of
four years;
(2) three members must be appointed from the State at large, with the advice
and consent of the Senate, for terms of four years.
(F) After the initial appointments provided for in this section, the terms of
the members are four years, and their successors must be appointed as provided
in this act.
Code references changed
SECTION 6. The South Carolina Code Commissioner is directed to change the
references in the 1976 Code to the Higher Education Tuition Grant Committee to
the Higher Education Tuition Grant Commission.
Study of enrollments
SECTION 7. The State Commission on Higher Education, in consultation with the
public institutions of higher learning in this State, shall conduct a study of
out-of-state and in-state student enrollments in South Carolina and neighboring
states. The study must examine the appropriate level of charges for out-of-state
undergraduate students in South Carolina's public Colleges and Universities and
the impact of charges on student enrollment. The commission shall report the
findings of the study to the General Assembly not later than January 1, 1989.
Time effective
SECTION 8. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor. |