What's happening
This bill requires SUNY and CUNY to report on the current numbers and composition of faculty and academic advisors at their campuses.
Why it matters
Helps assess faculty and advisor capacity before and after Excelsior Scholarship. By requiring data from both 2012 and the current year, the bill enables lawmakers, students, and the public to measure how SUNY and CUNY staffing levels have changed, especially in light of increased enrollment pressures from free tuition initiatives.
Reveals reliance on different types of instructional staff. The report will break down full-time tenured, tenure-track, non-tenure-track, and part-time faculty—including those without formal faculty titles but who teach—highlighting trends in hiring, use of adjuncts, and the stability of academic employment at public universities.
Shines a light on class size and advising loads. By documenting mean and median class sizes and student-to-advisor ratios from 2012 to the present, the report can reveal whether students are getting more or less individual attention, and could inform future funding or staffing decisions to support student success.
Excludes special program staffing to focus on general student experience. By omitting staff dedicated to enhanced advising programs (like EOP, ASAP, SEEK, and Honors), the bill aims to provide a clear picture of advising and faculty resources available to the typical student, not just those in specialized support programs.
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Report on College Faculty Makeup
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- Referred to higher education
- Print number 4363a
- Amend and recommit to higher education
- Referred to higher education
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Report on Faculty Numbers
In Assembly Committee · Higher Education · Sponsor Toby Ann Stavisky
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STATE OF NEW YORK
4363--A
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 4, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. GLICK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT in relation to directing the board of trustees of the state university of New York and the city university of New York to report on the current composition of faculty and academic advisors at fouryear campuses and community colleges
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Legislative intent. The Legislature hereby recognizes the importance of faculty and academic advisors employed at our public higher education institutions and the impact they have on on-time student degree completion. The recent enactment of the Excelsior Scholarship Program has the potential to increase total student enrollment at the state university of New York and the city university of New York community colleges and four-year campuses. As we prepare for students to apply for and enroll in our public higher education institutions under the Excelsior Scholarship Program, it is necessary for CUNY and SUNY to take inventory of their current faculty and academic advisors and the potential need for additional faculty and staff. The primary objective of the Excelsior Scholarship Program is to ensure that students do graduate within two years with an associate's degree, and within four years with a baccalaureate degree. As students attempt to meet the thirty credits per year threshold of such program and the requirements for their majors, it is necessary to provide adequate numbers of faculty, academic advisors and courses to meet students' needs.
§ 2. The board of trustees of the state university of New York and the city university of New York shall issue a report on or before one hundred eighty days after this act shall have become a law detailing the current composition of faculty and academic advisors at both four-year campuses and community colleges. Such report shall not include employees
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
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of the research foundations of the state university of New York or the city university of New York. For purposes of such report, faculty shall mean instructional staff who teach one or more courses at a four-year campus or a community college at the state university of New York or city university of New York. The report shall be submitted to the governor, the temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly, the chair of the senate committee of finance, chair of the assembly committee on ways and means, and the chairs of the senate and assembly committees on higher education. The report shall include, but not be limited to, the following criteria:
a. number by campus, in 2012 and in the current academic year, of each of full-time tenured faculty, full-time tenure-track faculty, full-time non tenure-track faculty, including those who may not have a faculty or academic job title but perform instructional duties and number of faculty lines and unfilled faculty positions;
b. mean and median class size by campus in 2012 and in the current academic year, for full-time tenured faculty, full-time tenure-track faculty, and full-time non tenure-track faculty and instructional staff;
c. mean and median class size by level in 2012 and in the current academic year for remedial 100 level introductory courses, and 200 level mid-level courses, and above for completion of an associate's degree and baccalaureate degree;
d. number of part-time non tenure-track faculty in 2012 and in the current academic year, including those who may not have a faculty or academic job title but perform instructional duties, by campus;
e. mean and median class size by campus for part-time non tenure-track faculty and instructional staff in 2012 and in the current academic year;
f. number of full-time academic advisors per campus, and number of part-time academic advisors, including those who may not possess the title academic advisor but are primarily employed to perform and carry out the duties typically assigned to, and function as, an academic advisor excluding those individuals working with students enrolled in special programs or student opportunity programs with enhanced academic advising including, but not limited to EOP, ASAP, SEEK, College Discovery and MacCauley Honors programs in 2012 and in the current academic year; and
g. mean and median number of student advisees per full-time academic advisor, and per part-time academic advisor per campus in 2012 and in the current academic year.
§ 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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