Authorizes commissioner of education to contract with three public or independent institutions of higher education for the support of special summer programs established in order to increase the number of economically and educationally disadvantaged undergraduate students who are prepared for admission to graduate educational programs; establishes eligibility requirements in order to attend such special summer programs; appropriates $711,200 therefor.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2060
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 11, 2009
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Introduced by Sens. HUNTLEY, DIAZ, ESPADA, PARKER, SAMPSON -- read twice
and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee
on Finance
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to opportunity for gradu-
ate education, and making an appropriation therefor
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 6456
2 to read as follows:
3 § 6456. Opportunity for graduate education. 1. To advance the cause of
4 educational opportunity in graduate education, the commissioner may
5 contract with three public or independent institutions of higher educa-
6 tion for the support of special summer programs established to increase
7 the number of economically and educationally disadvantaged undergraduate
8 students who are prepared for admission to educational programs beyond
9 the baccalaureate degree. In order to be eligible to attend a special
10 summer program, a student shall have completed the first year of an
11 undergraduate educational program as a participant in one of the
12 programs for educationally and economically disadvantaged students
13 established pursuant to section sixty-four hundred fifty-one or sixty-
14 four hundred fifty-two of this article. A student who attended a special
15 summer program upon completion of the first year of an undergraduate
16 educational program shall also be eligible to attend such program upon
17 completion of the second year of an undergraduate educational program. A
18 student who has completed the third or fourth year of an undergraduate
19 educational program shall be eligible to attend a special summer
20 program. Eligible students shall be selected in equal numbers from
21 students participating in the opportunity programs of independent insti-
22 tutions of higher education, the state university of New York and the
23 city university of New York, respectively. Enrollment in such programs
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 shall not exceed levels determined by the commissioner, with the
2 approval of the director of the budget.
3 2. To qualify for state assistance pursuant to this section, an insti-
4 tution of higher education must be a college or university incorporated
5 by the regents or by the legislature and must maintain one or more
6 earned degree programs culminating in a baccalaureate degree.
7 3. Moneys made available to institutions through contracts shall be
8 spent only for the following purposes:
9 a. Personal and career counseling for enrolled students;
10 b. Diagnostic and prescriptive testing for such students;
11 c. Instruction in subject matter and laboratory work;
12 d. Tutoring of enrolled students;
13 e. Financial assistance for enrolled students in such amount as is
14 determined by the commissioner;
15 f. Administration of the program, including planning and evaluation,
16 within the limitations established by the commissioner.
17 4. Each program shall be operated for a period of eight weeks, between
18 the first day of July and the first day of September of each year. An
19 institution of higher education selected by the commissioner to provide
20 a special summer program shall offer a program in health and biological
21 sciences; law and business; or social sciences and the humanities, as
22 determined by the commissioner.
23 5. Institutions applying for contracts pursuant to this section shall
24 submit to the commissioner such reports or other information as he shall
25 require. The commissioner shall consider such information in determin-
26 ing whether to enter into a contract with any institution. The commis-
27 sioner may promulgate regulations necessary for the implementation of
28 these programs.
29 6. Contracts made pursuant to this section shall be subject to the
30 approval of the director of the budget.
31 7. The commissioner shall prepare an annual report of the activities
32 of institutions which received state funds pursuant to this section in
33 the fiscal year, concerning, but not limited to, the effectiveness of
34 the programs contracted for, the number of students served, the costs of
35 the programs, and future plans therefor, and shall transmit such report
36 to the governor and the legislature on or before November first next
37 following the completion of such year's summer programs.
38 § 2. The sum of seven hundred eleven thousand two hundred dollars
39 ($711,200), or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropri-
40 ated to the department of education out of any moneys in the state trea-
41 sury in the general fund to the credit of the state purposes account not
42 otherwise appropriated, for its expenses, including personal service,
43 maintenance and operation, in carrying out the provisions of this act.
44 § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
45 the date on which it shall have become a law.
