HOUSE EDUCATION COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR

HOUSE BILL 23

51st legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2013

AN ACT

RELATING TO HIGHER EDUCATION; AMENDING A SECTION OF CHAPTER 21 NMSA 1978 TO PROVIDE FOR CONDITIONS FOR FACULTY TENURE.

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

     SECTION 1. Section 21-1-7.3 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1995, Chapter 150, Section 3) is amended to read:

     "21-1-7.3. TEMPORARY PROVISIONS--TENURE STUDY.--The boards of regents of all state baccalaureate degree-granting educational institutions [shall] may study the options, advantages and disadvantages of developing a procedure for granting tenure and promotion based [solely] on a faculty member's:

          A. teaching ability;

          B. scholarship;

          C. community-engaged service, research and teaching; or

          D. entrepreneurial activity and commercialization activities."

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