Directs the board of trustees of the state university of New York to examine and conduct a study on the creation of an equity-centered honors college for the state university of New York college at Geneseo; requires a report on the findings of such study to be submitted within 180 days of the effective date.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9450
IN ASSEMBLY
March 14, 2024
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Introduced by M. of A. BRONSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Higher Education
AN ACT to direct the state university of New York to examine and conduct
a study on the creation of an equity-centered honors college for the
state university of New York college at Geneseo
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The board of trustees of the state university of New York
2 shall conduct a study on the feasibility of the creation of an equity-
3 centered honors college at the state university of New York college at
4 Geneseo, which shall include but not be limited to the following:
5 1. the development and examination of a plan for the implementation
6 and operation of an equity-centered honors college prepared by the state
7 university of New York college at Geneseo in consultation with faculty,
8 staff, and students at such college;
9 2. anticipated impacts of an equity-centered honors college on
10 increased enrollment;
11 3. the benefits to minority students of participating in an equity-
12 centered honors college program, without any monetary concerns;
13 4. the benefit of providing students participating in an equity-cen-
14 tered honors college a guarantee of successful job placement; and
15 5. an examination of the economic costs and benefits of establishing
16 an equity-centered honors college for the state university of New York
17 college at Geneseo.
18 § 2. The board of trustees of the state university of New York shall
19 submit a report of its findings and recommendations of the study
20 conducted under section one of this act to the governor, the temporary
21 president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, and the chairs of
22 the higher education committees in the assembly and senate within one
23 hundred eighty days of the effective date of this act.
24 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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