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16-5-1
Section 16-5-1 Definitions. The following terms shall have the meanings respectively prescribed
for them, except when the context otherwise requires: (1) PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION.
Those public educational institutions in Alabama which have been authorized by the Legislature
or by the constitution to provide formal education, including vocational, technical, collegiate,
professional or any other form of education, above the secondary school level. (2) COMMISSION.
The Alabama Commission on Higher Education created by this article. (3) INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAM.
A series of courses at any one location which culminates in a degree, certificate or other
formal recognition of academic credit. (4) UNIT. A school, college, division or institute
and includes the establishment of any new branch or campus. The term does not include reasonable
extension or alterations of existing curricula or programs which have a direct relationship
to existing programs previously approved by the...
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16-5-9
Section 16-5-9 Budget proposals; open hearings; unified budget report; recommendations. (a)
The governing boards of the public institutions of higher education shall submit to the commission
through their appropriate administrative officers, not later than 90 days prior to each legislative
session, its budget proposals for the operation and capital needs of the institution under
its governance or supervision. (b) The commission shall receive, evaluate and coordinate budget
requests for the public institutions of higher education of this state, shall hold open hearings
on the budget requests of the separate institutions and shall present to each institution
and to the Governor and the Legislature, a single unified budget report containing budget
recommendations for separate appropriations to each of the institutions. The consolidated
budget and analysis of the commission shall be accompanied by the original requests and their
justifications as submitted by each institution. The...
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16-1-25
Section 16-1-25 Access to students and campus facilities by military recruiters of U.S. Armed
Forces and Department of Homeland Security. All city and county public school systems and
all public institutions of higher education as defined by Section 16-5-1 and all divisions
of public institutions of higher education shall grant military recruiters of the United States
Armed Forces and United States Department of Homeland Security the same information and access
to students and campus facilities as the institution grants to prospective employers of students
or to postsecondary institutions. (Acts 1982, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 82-762, p. 237, §1; Acts
1996, No. 96-672, p. 1137, §1; Act 2017-259, §1.)...
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16-25-11.21
Section 16-25-11.21 Purchase of credit for prior service to certain institutions of higher
education. (a) Any active, vested, and contributing member of the Teachers' Retirement System
who has been employed in public education for a minimum of 10 years may claim and purchase
service credit in the system not to exceed five years for prior service between 1974 and 1989
rendered to an educational institution of higher education that receives direct appropriations
from the Education Trust Fund but does not participate in the Teachers' Retirement System.
The certification of prior service claimed under this section shall conform to applicable
administrative rules and procedures of the Teachers' Retirement System. Members shall receive
credit for the prior service when they remit to the system the contributions required by subsection
(b). No member shall receive credit for any service for which the member is already credited
within the system or any public retirement plan, with the exception...
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16-5-5
Section 16-5-5 Commission to analyze and evaluate education needs; advisory and consultant
groups; Council of Presidents. The commission, in consultation with the agencies and institutions
concerned with higher education in this state, shall analyze and evaluate on a continuing
basis the present and future needs for instruction, research and public service in postsecondary
education in the state, including facilities, and assess the present and future capabilities.
The use of advisory groups and consultants, as deemed desirable, may be used to meet these
needs in order to provide the highest possible quality of collegiate and university education
to all persons in the state able and willing to participate. One such advisory committee shall
be the Council of Presidents, consisting of the president of each public four-year institution
of higher education and Athens State University, the Chancellor of Postsecondary Education,
and the presidents of three public two-year institutions of...
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16-5-8
Section 16-5-8 Review, coordination, establishment, etc., of programs; transfer of credits;
Articulation and General Studies Committee. (a)(1) The Commission on Higher Education is authorized
to review periodically all new and existing programs and units of instruction, research, and
public service funded by state appropriations at the state universities and colleges and to
share with the appropriate governing board, through the president of the institution, and
state Legislature, its recommendations. (2) As a part of its program review process, the commission
shall enforce, monitor, and report on minimum degree productivity standards for all existing
programs of instruction at public two-year and four-year institutions of higher education.
Productivity standards shall be based, primarily, but not exclusively, on the annual average
number of degrees conferred during a five-year period for senior institutions and a three-year
period for two-year institutions, as verified by the...
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16-68-1
Section 16-68-1 (Effective July 1, 2020) Legislative findings. The Legislature makes the following
findings: (1) Article I, Section 4 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, recognizes that
all persons may speak, write, and publish their sentiments on all subjects, and that "no
law shall ever be passed to curtail or restrain the liberty of speech...." (2) Alabama's
public institutions of higher education have historically embraced a commitment to freedom
of speech and expression. (3) The United States Supreme Court has called public universities
"peculiarly the marketplace of ideas," Healy v. James, 408 U.S. 169, 180 (1972),
where young adults learn to exercise those constitutional rights necessary to participate
in our system of government and to tolerate the exercise of those rights by others, and there
is "no room for the view that First Amendment protections should apply with less force
on college campuses than in the community at large." Healy, 408 U.S. at 180. (4) The
United...
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16-46B-5
Section 16-46B-5 Computer science education task force. (a) The Governor shall establish a
computer science education task force to develop a state strategic plan for expanding computer
science education in the public schools in Alabama. (b) The membership of the task force shall
include all of the following: (1) One member of the House of Representatives, as appointed
by the Speaker of the House, and one member of the Senate, as appointed by the President Pro
Tempore of the Senate. (2) A representative of the board, as appointed by the board. (3) The
state computer science specialist and two additional representatives of the department, as
appointed by the superintendent. (4) A representative of the Department of Early Childhood
Education, as appointed by the secretary. (5) A representative of the Alabama Community College
System, as appointed by the board of trustees of the system. (6) A representative of the Alabama
Workforce Council, as appointed by the council. (7) A...
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16-5-7
Section 16-5-7 State university and college electronic faculty and student unit record system;
definitions; state coordinating agency; advisory committee; database reports; failure to comply
with requirements. (a) For the purposes of this section, the following words shall have the
following meanings: (1) BIOGRAPHICAL AND DEMOGRAPHIC DATA ELEMENTS. Include, but are not limited
to, student identification number which shall not be the Social Security number, sex code,
race and ethnic identification code, birth date, country of citizenship, state of geographic
origin on entry, matriculation date, and college graduation date. (2) CURRENT EDUCATIONAL
ACTIVITY DATA ELEMENTS. Include, but are not limited to, student level, major area code, credit
hours enrolled, cumulative credit hours attempted, cumulative credit hours earned, cumulative
grade point average (GPA), state of current legal residence, residency status, cumulative
quality points, veterans' benefits status, housing status, minor/...
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16-64-4
Section 16-64-4 Tuition rates for nonresident; resident tuition rates for students residing
in counties within 50 miles of campus; tuition rates for distance programs. (a) Each Alabama
public institution of higher education shall charge each undergraduate student who is registered
as a nonresident a minimum tuition of two times the resident tuition rate charged by that
institution. This rate shall be effective for students who register at an institution beginning
August 1, 1997. A nonresident graduate student at an institution shall be charged a rate of
tuition that is at least at the level of tuition charged to a nonresident undergraduate. (b)
The governing boards of each four-year public institution of higher education and Athens State
University shall retain the power to extend resident tuition rates to students who reside
in any county within 50 miles of a campus of the institution; provided, however, that campus
must be in existence and operating as of January 1, 1996. For public...
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