HB 1236 Summary

• Requires state educational institutions to prepare annual accountability reports by November 1 each year covering institutional profile, student demographics, academic quality measures, and student progress and outcomes.

• Institutions must submit reports to the Commission for Higher Education and General Assembly in electronic format and publish them on institutional websites; multi-campus institutions must file separate reports for each campus.

• Accountability reports must include tuition costs, admission standards, faculty credentials, retention and graduation rates, remedial course enrollment, and performance on standardized assessments.

• Requires institutions to submit separate annual reports on intellectual diversity measures, including campus speaker diversity, freedom of speech protections, hiring policies against viewpoint discrimination, and elimination of overly restrictive speech codes.

• Effective July 1, 2010.