This year's short session for the Indiana General Assembly ends March 14. Here are a couple bills that have been proposed that could affect Ball State students.
SB 56 | Board of Trustees - signed Wednesday
The bill would allow non-Indiana residents to be members of the Board of Trustees. Indiana and Purdue universities already have this provision. Gretchen Gutman, associate vice president of Governmental Relations, said this would allow for the board to pull from a larger pool of applicants.
SB 182 | Credit transfers - signed Friday
It calls for the CHE and state educational institutions to develop, implement and maintain a common course numbering system for general education curriculum courses. This would then create 30 credit hours that could be transferred to any public college in the state and would not have to be repeated. Credits earned toward an associate degree could be used as credit toward a bachelor's degree at another state institution.
741 students transferred to Ball State last school year, down from 836 in 2010-2011 and 856 in 2009-2010.
HB 1220 | Credit hours for public universities - signed Friday
The bill calls for state institutions to provide justification for any undergraduate program of more than 120 hours. The Indiana Commission for Higher Education proposed the bill to help avoid "credit creep," which means inflation of credits needed to earn a degree.
At Ball State, most programs have already been reduced from 126 to 120 credit hours.
HB 1270 | Higher education matters - signed Friday
The bill includes various provisions for oversight. It requires the CHE to absorb the functions of the State Student Assistance commission, which it also calls to abolish. It gives more responsibility to the Board for Proprietary Education.
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