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AN ACT

RELATING TO HIGHER EDUCATION; PROVIDING FOR FACULTY

INFORMATION IN THE ANNUAL ACCOUNTABILITY REPORT FOR HIGHER

EDUCATION; PROVIDING FOR A PAY SCHEDULE FOR PART-TIME FACULTY.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

Section 1. Section 21-1-26.7 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1990

(1st S.S.), Chapter 4, Section 2, as amended) is amended to

read:

"21-1-26.7. ANNUAL ACCOUNTABILITY REPORT.--

A. The higher education department shall submit an

annual accountability report to the governor and to the

legislature by December 31. Prior to publication, the

department shall distribute a draft of the accountability

report to all public post-secondary educational institutions

and shall allow comment upon the draft report.

B. The department in consultation with each public

post-secondary educational institution shall develop and adopt

the content and a format for the report, including the

following information:

(1) student progress and success;

(2) student access and diversity;

(3) affordability and cost of educational

services;

(4) public and community service by the

institution; and

(5) faculty, compensation and benefits

practices, including:

(a) number and percentage of part-time

and full-time faculty;

(b) per-credit-hour pay rate for full-

time instructors or lecturers and per-credit-hour pay rate for

part-time faculty;

(c) percent salary increase for full-

time faculty and percent salary increase for part-time

faculty; and

(d) description of the institution's

policy for offering benefits to full-time faculty and to part-

time faculty.

C. The department shall make no funding

recommendation, capital outlay recommendation, distribution or

certification on behalf of any public post-secondary

educational institution that has not submitted the information

required pursuant to this section."

Section 2. TEMPORARY PROVISION--PART-TIME FACULTY

COMPENSATION.--The higher education department shall work with

the public post-secondary educational institutions to

establish a pay schedule for part-time faculty to be subject

to legislative appropriation.

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