HB 1226

Abstract

State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; baccalaureate public institutions of higher education; productivity analysis. Requires the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to conduct and submit to the Governor and the General Assembly no later than December 1, 2022, a productivity analysis of each baccalaureate public institution of higher education in the Commonwealth that includes, among other metrics, an analysis of the (i) ten-year trend in the ratio of students to full-time equivalent faculty per academic program, (ii) published student to faculty ratio as a benchmark, (iii) completion rate per academic program, and (iv) plans to address both outlying low and outlying high student demand for academic programs.

Public institutions of higher education; tenured professors; in-person teaching. Requires each tenured professoremployed at a public institution of higher education to personallyteach students enrolled at the institution for at least 12 hoursper week during any fall, winter, or spring semester, quarter, orother academic term and in a live, in-person format.