The Florida Senate

240.154  Proposals for undergraduate enhancement.--

(1)  It is the intent of the Legislature to enhance the quality of the undergraduate experience in public community colleges and state universities.

(2)  Each public community college president and each state university president shall submit to the State Board of Community Colleges and the Board of Regents, respectively, a proposal for an undergraduate enhancement grant. Each board shall consider the respective proposals and determine which proposals to implement as programs to enhance undergraduate education. Programs funded must be designed to increase the quality and amount of academic and career advisement and to improve undergraduate instruction. Proposals must be funded competitively, and the funding of proposals must include a reward system to recognize excellence in undergraduate instruction and advising. Preference must be given to proposals that include innovative programs designed to enhance the student advisement process, including, but not limited to, courses intended to orient students to academic and career experiences, as well as student mentor programs.

(3)  Beginning March 1, 1991, and annually thereafter, each public community college and state university shall submit to its respective board a report on the effectiveness of its program funded under this section. The report must include, without limitation:

(a)  A certificate-of-expenditures form showing expenditures by category; encumbered expenses; state grant funds; and institutional matching contributions, in cash or in services or both.

(b)  The number of students and faculty participating in the program by grade, age, sex, and race.

(c)  A description of program objectives.

(d)  A statement of how the program addresses the enhancement of advisement services available to students and rewards teaching excellence.

(e)  A description of efforts to institutionalize the goals of the program through modifications to tenure and promotion policies and other means.

(4)  The State Board of Community Colleges and the Board of Regents shall include requests for funding proposals pursuant to this section in their respective annual legislative budget requests.

History.--s. 32, ch. 89-381.