HF 3629 Summary

• Chancellor salary for Minnesota State Colleges and Universities must not exceed the governor's salary, with the Board of Trustees submitting proposed salary ranges to the Legislative Coordinating Commission for approval.

• Establishes a central system office under the chancellor's direction to coordinate system-level responsibilities including financial management, personnel, facilities, information technology, and legal affairs without duplicating institution-level services.

• Board of Trustees must develop a comprehensive evaluation of academic and technical programs to achieve 20 percent savings in state appropriation through consolidation and elimination of duplication, with a report due by January 20, 2011.

• Reorganizes information technology delivery to be centralized where it provides greatest economic benefits and located closest to institutions and students, while streamlining system office services to reduce expenditures and eliminate duplicative functions.

• Changes the definition of "senior citizen" for free classes from age 62 to age 66 and repeals the previous Centers of Excellence statute, phasing out existing centers as a systemwide initiative.