PRINTER'S NO. 932
No. 855 Session of 1981
INTRODUCED BY TILGHMAN, JUNE 2, 1981
REFERRED TO APPROPRIATIONS, JUNE 2, 1981
A SUPPLEMENT
1 To the act of November 30, 1965 (P.L.843, No.355), entitled "An
2 act providing for the establishment and operation of Temple
3 University as an instrumentality of the Commonwealth to serve
4 as a State-related university in the higher education system
5 of the Commonwealth; providing for change of name; providing
6 for the composition of the board of trustees; terms of
7 trustees, and the power and duties of such trustees;
8 providing for preference to Pennsylvania residents in
9 tuition; providing for public support and capital
10 improvements; authorizing appropriations in amounts to be
11 fixed annually by the General Assembly; providing for the
12 auditing of accounts of expenditures from said
13 appropriations; authorizing the issuance of bonds exempt from
14 taxation within the Commonwealth; requiring the President to
15 make an annual report of the operations of Temple
16 University," making appropriations for carrying the same into
17 effect, providing for a basis for payments of such
18 appropriation and providing a method of accounting for the
19 funds appropriated.
20 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
21 hereby enacts as follows:
22 Section 1. The following sums, or as much thereof as may be
23 necessary, are hereby specifically appropriated to the Trustees
24 of Temple University at Philadelphia for the fiscal year July 1,
25 1981 to June 30, 1982, for the purposes and in the amounts as
26 shown:
1 (1) For educational and general expenses..... $71,600,000
2 (2) For cost of student aid.................. 3,018,000
3 (3) For instruction - Doctor of Medicine
4 only..................................... 5,435,000
5 (4) For operation of dental clinics in the
6 school of dentistry...................... 600,000
7 (5) Temple University Hospital............... 2,500,000
8 Section 2. (a) Payments to Temple University on account of
9 the appropriations for all items, as provided in section 1,
10 except for instruction - Doctor of Medicine, shall be made on
11 the basis of costs during the fiscal year.
12 (b) Payments for instruction - Doctor of Medicine only shall
13 be made on the basis of full-time students enrolled at the rate
14 of $7,465 per student.
15 Section 3. If necessary, Temple University may transfer
16 funds among the appropriations listed in section 1, clauses (1)
17 and (2): Provided, That the aggregate amount transferred into or
18 out of each appropriation during the fiscal year shall not
19 exceed 5% of the amount specifically appropriated for that
20 purpose.
21 Section 4. (a) Payment to Temple University of the
22 appropriations herein provided shall be made monthly during the
23 fiscal year.
24 (b) Such monthly payments shall be made in accordance with
25 the provisions of sections 2 and 3, on the basis of estimated
26 costs and full-time students enrolled in the Doctor of Medicine
27 program. The estimate of costs shall be submitted by Temple
28 University to the Secretary of Education, the General Assembly
29 and to the State Treasurer not later than 30 days prior to the
30 date on which such payment is to be made.
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1 Section 5. Temple University shall apply the moneys
2 appropriated by this act only for such purposes as are permitted
3 in this act and shall at all times maintain proper records
4 showing the application of such moneys. Not later than 120 days
5 after the close of the fiscal year to which this act relates,
6 Temple University shall file with the Secretary of Education,
7 the General Assembly and with the Auditor General of the
8 Commonwealth a statement setting forth the amounts and purposes
9 of all expenditures made from moneys appropriated by this act
10 and other university accounts during said fiscal year the number
11 of full-time students enrolled in the Doctor of Medicine program
12 and costs, as provided in section 2, used as a basis for receipt
13 of any appropriation during said fiscal year. Such statement of
14 expenditures, and number of full-time students enrolled in the
15 Doctor of Medicine program and costs shall be reviewed by the
16 Auditor General of the Commonwealth, and he shall have the
17 right, in respect to the moneys appropriated by this act, to
18 audit and disallow expenditures made for purposes not permitted
19 by this act and to cause such sums to be recovered and paid by
20 Temple University to the Treasurer of the Commonwealth. The
21 Auditor General shall also make a determination of full-time
22 students enrolled in the Doctor of Medicine program and costs
23 and make certification as to their correctness. In respect to
24 expenditures made by the university from moneys other than those
25 appropriated by this act, the Auditor General shall have the
26 right to review only and he shall file annually with the General
27 Assembly such information concerning said expenditures as the
28 General Assembly or any of its committees may require.
29 Section 6. A report shall be submitted to the Governor and
30 the Appropriations and Education Committees of the Senate and
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1 House of Representatives and shall include data for all programs
2 except the Doctor of Medicine program. The report, to be
3 submitted prior to September 1, 1982, shall cover the 12-month
4 period beginning with the summer term 1981 and shall include:
5 (1) The following counts and distributions for each term
6 during the period:
7 (i) The definitions and numbers of faculty members employed
8 full-time, of faculty members employed part-time, of full-time
9 students enrolled in graduate courses, of full-time students
10 enrolled in undergraduate courses, of part-time students
11 enrolled in graduate courses and of part-time students enrolled
12 in undergraduate courses.
13 (ii) Total numbers of undergraduate student credit hours,
14 divided into lower division and upper division course levels and
15 of graduate student credit hours divided into three course
16 levels--master's, first professional and doctoral.
17 (iii) Number of different courses scheduled by level of
18 instruction and the number of sections of individual instruction
19 at each level of instruction.
20 (iv) Number of terms scheduled and the dates thereof.
21 (2) For the summer term and the following academic year in
22 total and for each two-digit Hegis category of instructional
23 programs in higher education as defined by the National Center
24 for Education Statistics, United States Department of Education,
25 a classification of faculty members or other professional
26 employees by title including: professor, associate professor,
27 assistant professor, instructor, lecturer, research associate,
28 librarian and academic administrator; faculty members or other
29 professional employees under each title to be subdivided by type
30 of assignment: teaching and nonteaching, and each such set of
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1 faculty members or other professional employees to be further
2 subdivided by type of employment: full-time or part-time and the
3 following aggregates for each such subdivided classification:
4 (i) The number of faculty and other professional employees
5 and their full-time equivalence in instructional and
6 noninstructional functions.
7 (ii) The sum of credits assigned to undergraduate classroom
8 courses and the sum of credits assigned to graduate classroom
9 courses taught, divided into lower division, upper division,
10 master's, first professional and doctoral course levels.
11 (iii) The sum of undergraduate classroom student credit
12 hours and the sum of graduate classroom student credit hours
13 generated; divided into lower division, upper division, master's
14 first professional and doctoral course levels.
15 (iv) The sum of undergraduate individual instruction student
16 credit hours and the sum of graduate individual instruction
17 student credit hours generated; divided into lower division,
18 upper division, master's, first professional and doctoral course
19 levels.
20 (v) Total salary paid for instructional functions and for
21 noninstructional functions and the amount of this salary paid
22 for each of these functions from college or university funds,
23 Federal funds and other funds.
24 (3) For each term of the period covered for each faculty
25 member employed full-time identified by two-digit Hegis category
26 and title, the report shall contain an analysis of the average
27 hours per week spent in college or university-related
28 activities, stating specifically hours spent in undergraduate
29 classroom contact and graduate classroom contact, hours spent in
30 preparation, hours spent in research and hours spent in public
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1 service.
2 Section 7. (a) In addition to the above requirements
3 relative to this appropriation, the report covering the 12-month
4 period beginning with the summer term 1981, shall include for
5 all programs of the university:
6 (1) Minimum number of credits required for a baccalaureate
7 degree and for a master's degree.
8 (2) Number of bachelor's degrees, master's degrees, first
9 professional degrees and doctoral degrees awarded in 1979, 1980,
10 1981 and estimated 1982.
11 (b) The university shall report its revenues and
12 expenditures and present its financial statements required under
13 the provisions of this act in accordance with "Higher Education
14 Finance Manual" (1975).
15 Section 8. The university shall provide such information as
16 may be necessary to carry out this act and in such form and
17 manner as the Department of Education may prescribe.
18 Section 9. The university shall report its revenues and
19 expenditures and present its financial statements required under
20 the provisions of this act in accordance with generally accepted
21 accounting principles and procedures for educational
22 institutions as set forth in "Higher Education Finance Manual"
23 United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare (1975)
24 with the exceptions set forth in the Commonwealth of
25 Pennsylvania Budget Instructions for State Related Universities,
26 Phase I, Fiscal Year 1981-1982. Credits granted for
27 nontraditional programs such as CLEP, lifelong learning etc.,
28 including all related costs and revenues thereof shall be
29 excluded from the function of "Instruction" and included under
30 "Public Service."
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1 Section 10. This act shall take effect July 1, 1981.
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