PRINTER'S NO. 833
No. 771 Session of 1975
INTRODUCED BY CIANFRANI, JUNE 9, 1975
REFERRED TO APPROPRIATIONS, JUNE 9, 1975
A SUPPLEMENT
1 To the act of April 1, 1863 (P.L.213, No.227), entitled "An act
2 to accept the grant of Public Lands, by the United States, to
3 the several states, for the endowment of Agricultural
4 Colleges," making appropriations for carrying the same into
5 effect, providing for a basis for payments of such
6 appropriations and providing a method of accounting for the
7 funds appropriated.
8 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
9 hereby enacts as follows:
10 Section 1. In order to carry into effect the act of
11 Congress, approved July 2, 1862, granting public land to the
12 several states for educational purposes, and subsequent acts of
13 Congress related thereto, and the act of the General Assembly of
14 Pennsylvania accepting the provisions and conditions of said
15 acts of Congress and pledging the faith of the State to carry
16 the same into effect, the following sums or as much thereof as
17 may be necessary are hereby specifically appropriated to the
18 Trustees of the Pennsylvania State University for the fiscal
19 year July 1, 1975 to June 30, 1976, for the purposes and in the
20 amounts as shown:
21 (1) For net cost of instruction excluding
1 Doctor of Medicine........................ $72,250,000
2 (2) For net cost of student aid............... 1,760,000
3 (3) For net cost of extension and public
4 services.................................. 9,626,000
5 (4) For net cost of research.................. 15,361,000
6 (5) For instruction - Doctor of Medicine
7 only...................................... 2,665,000
8 Section 2. Payments to Pennsylvania State University on
9 account of the appropriations for all items as provided in
10 section 1 except for instruction - Doctor of Medicine shall be
11 made on the basis of net costs during the fiscal year.
12 Payments for instruction - Doctor of Medicine shall be made
13 on the basis of full-time equivalent students enrollment at the
14 rate of $7,465 per student.
15 Section 3. If necessary, the Pennsylvania State University
16 may transfer funds among the appropriations listed in section 1,
17 clauses (1), (2), (3) and (4): Provided, That the aggregate
18 amount transferred into or out of each appropriation during the
19 fiscal year shall not exceed 5% of the amount specifically
20 appropriated for that purpose.
21 Section 4. There shall be no further disbursement of funds
22 appropriated for the Pennsylvania State University after
23 September 30, 1975, until the chairpersons of the House and
24 Senate Appropriations Committees and the chairpersons of the
25 House and Senate Education Committees have received copies of
26 letters notifying at least a 5% reduction of the current full-
27 time faculty members or full-time equivalent faculty members and
28 at least a 5% reduction of the current administrators and one
29 vice-president at the university as of September 1, 1976. When
30 the chairpersons of the respective committees have received
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1 proof of retrenchment notification they shall then notify the
2 Treasurer of the Commonwealth who may authorize disbursements
3 from appropriated funds to the university.
4 As an additional condition precedent to the disbursement of
5 appropriated funds after September 30, 1975 to the university,
6 the university shall furnish satisfactory evidence to the
7 chairpersons of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees
8 and the chairpersons of the House and Senate Education
9 Committees that, commencing with the academic year that begins
10 in September 1975, all programs of academic fee remission and
11 tuition waiver for all employees of the university are
12 abolished.
13 Section 5. Payments to the Pennsylvania State University of
14 the appropriations herein provided shall be made monthly during
15 the fiscal year.
16 Such monthly payments shall be made in accordance with the
17 provisions of sections 2 and 3, on the basis of estimated net
18 costs and full-time equivalent students enrolled in the Doctor
19 of Medicine program. The estimate of net costs shall be
20 submitted by the Pennsylvania State University to the Secretary
21 of Education, the General Assembly and to the State Treasurer
22 not later than 30 days prior to the date on which such payment
23 is to be made.
24 Section 6. The Pennsylvania State University shall apply the
25 moneys appropriated by this act only for such purposes as are
26 permitted in this act and shall at all times maintain proper
27 records showing the application of such moneys. Not later than
28 120 days after the close of the fiscal year to which this act
29 relates, the Pennsylvania State University shall file with the
30 Secretary of Education, the General Assembly, and with the
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1 Auditor General of the Commonwealth, a statement setting forth
2 the amounts and purposes of all expenditures made from moneys
3 appropriated by this act and other university accounts during
4 said fiscal year, the number of full-time equivalent students
5 enrolled in the Doctor of Medicine program and net costs, as
6 provided in sections 2 and 3, used as a basis for receipt of any
7 appropriation during said fiscal year.
8 Such statement of expenditures and number of full-time
9 equivalent students enrolled in the Doctor of Medicine program
10 and net costs shall be reviewed by the Auditor General of the
11 Commonwealth, and he shall have the right, in respect to the
12 moneys appropriated by this act, to audit and disallow
13 expenditures made for purposes not permitted by this act and to
14 cause such sums to be recovered and paid by the Pennsylvania
15 State University to the Treasurer of the Commonwealth. The
16 Auditor General shall also make a determination of full-time
17 equivalent students enrolled in the Doctor of Medicine program
18 and net costs and make a certification as to their correctness.
19 In respect to expenditures made by the university from moneys
20 other than those appropriated by this act, the Auditor General
21 shall have the right to review only and he shall file annually
22 with the General Assembly such information concerning such
23 expenditures as the General Assembly or any of its committees
24 may require.
25 Section 7. A report shall be submitted to the Governor and
26 the Appropriations and Education Committees of the Senate and
27 House of Representatives and shall include data for all programs
28 of the university except the Doctor of Medicine program. The
29 report, to be submitted prior to November 1, 1976, shall cover
30 the twelve-month period beginning September 1, 1975. The report
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1 shall include for each term during the period.
2 (1) The following counts and distributions:
3 (i) The definitions and numbers of full-time faculty
4 members, of part-time faculty members, of full-time students
5 enrolled in graduate courses, of full-time students enrolled in
6 undergraduate courses, of part-time students enrolled in
7 graduate courses, and of part-time students enrolled in
8 undergraduate courses.
9 (ii) A distribution of part-time faculty members by the
10 percentage of full-time employment.
11 (iii) Total numbers of undergraduate student credit hours,
12 divided into lower division and upper division levels, and of
13 graduate student credit hours divided into three levels--
14 master's, first professional and doctoral.
15 (iv) Number of different courses scheduled by level of
16 instruction, distributed by the number of sections scheduled in
17 each course and the sections distributed by the number of
18 students enrolled in each section.
19 (v) Number of terms scheduled and the dates thereof.
20 (2) A classification of faculty members or other
21 professional employees by title including: professor, associate
22 professor, assistant professor, instructor, lecturer, research
23 associate, librarian, and academic administrator; faculty
24 members or other professional employees under each title to be
25 subdivided by type of assignment: undergraduate courses only,
26 graduate courses only, or both graduate and undergraduate
27 courses; and each such set of faculty members or other
28 professional employees to be further subdivided by type of
29 employment: full-time or part-time; and the following aggregates
30 for each such subdivided classification:
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1 (i) The number.
2 (ii) The sum of credits assigned to undergraduate courses
3 and the sum of credits assigned to graduate courses taught,
4 divided into lower division, upper division, master's, first
5 professional and doctoral levels.
6 (iii) The sum of undergraduate student credit hours and the
7 sum of graduate student credit hours generated; divided into
8 lower division, upper division, master's first professional and
9 doctoral levels.
10 (iv) Total salary paid.
11 (v) Total salary paid from university funds.
12 (vi) Total salary paid from Federal funds.
13 (vii) Total salary paid from other funds.
14 (3) For each term of the period covered for each full-time
15 faculty member identified by school, department and title:
16 (i) An analysis of the average hours per week spent in
17 university-related activities, stating specifically hours spent
18 in undergraduate classroom contact and graduate classroom
19 contact, hours spent in preparation, hours spent in research and
20 hours spent in public service.
21 (ii) The total salary paid and the salary paid from
22 university funds.
23 Section 8. In addition to the requirements of section 7, the
24 report covering the twelve-month period beginning September 1,
25 1975, shall include for all programs of the university except
26 the Doctor of Medicine program:
27 (1) Minimum number of credits required for a baccalaureate
28 degree, and for a master's degree.
29 (2) Number of bachelor's degrees, master's degrees, first
30 professional degrees, and doctoral degrees awarded in 1973, 1974
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1 and 1975 and estimated 1976.
2 Section 9. The Pennsylvania State University shall report
3 its revenues and expenditures and present its financial
4 statements required under the provisions of this act in
5 accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and
6 procedures for educational institutions as set forth in
7 "Industry Audit Guide for Colleges and Universities" of the
8 American Institute of Certified Public Accountants of 1973,
9 without exception.
10 Section 10. This act shall take effect July 1, 1975.
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