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                                                      PRINTER'S NO. 3480

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA


HOUSE BILL

No. 2518 Session of 1990


        INTRODUCED BY PIEVSKY, MAY 21, 1990

        REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, MAY 21, 1990

                                  A SUPPLEMENT

     1  To the act of July 7, 1972 (P.L.743, No.176), entitled "An act
     2     providing for the establishment and operation of Lincoln
     3     University as an instrumentality of the Commonwealth to serve
     4     as a State-related institution 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; authorizing appropriations in amounts to be fixed
    10     annually by the General Assembly; providing for the auditing
    11     of accounts of expenditures from said appropriations;
    12     providing for public support and capital improvements;
    13     authorizing the issuance of bonds exempt from taxation within
    14     the Commonwealth; requiring the President to make an annual
    15     report of the operations of Lincoln University," making
    16     appropriations for carrying the same into effect; providing
    17     for a basis for payments of such appropriations; and
    18     providing a method of accounting for the funds appropriated.

    19     The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
    20  hereby enacts as follows:
    21     Section 1.  The following sums, or as much thereof as may be
    22  necessary, are hereby appropriated to the Trustees of Lincoln
    23  University, Chester County, for the fiscal year July 1, 1990, to
    24  June 30, 1991, for the purposes and in the amounts as shown:
    25     (1)  For educational and general expenses......     9,296,000


     1     (2)  To enhance the recruitment and retention
     2  of disadvantaged students.........................       300,000
     3     (3)  For the International Affairs Institute...       300,000
     4     Section 2.  Payments to Lincoln University on account of the
     5  appropriations for the items provided in section 1 shall be made
     6  on the basis of costs during the fiscal year.
     7     Section 3.  (a)  Payments to Lincoln University of the
     8  appropriations provided in section 1 shall be made monthly
     9  during the fiscal year.
    10     (b)  Such monthly payments shall be made in accordance with
    11  the provisions of section 2 on the basis of estimated costs. The
    12  estimate of costs shall be submitted by Lincoln University to
    13  the Secretary of Education, the General Assembly and the State
    14  Treasurer not later than 30 days prior to the date on which such
    15  payment is to be made.
    16     Section 4.  (a)  Lincoln University shall apply the moneys
    17  appropriated by this act only for such purposes as are permitted
    18  in this act and shall at all times maintain proper records
    19  showing the application of such moneys. Not later than 120 days
    20  after the close of the fiscal year to which this act relates,
    21  Lincoln University shall file, with the Secretary of Education,
    22  the General Assembly and the Auditor General of the
    23  Commonwealth, a statement setting forth the amounts and purposes
    24  of all expenditures made from moneys appropriated by this act
    25  and costs, as provided in section 2, used as a basis for receipt
    26  of any appropriation during said fiscal year.
    27     (b)  Such statement of expenditures and costs shall be
    28  reviewed by the Auditor General of the Commonwealth, and he
    29  shall have the right, in respect to the moneys appropriated by
    30  this act, to audit and disallow expenditures made for purposes
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     1  not permitted by this act and to cause such sums to be recovered
     2  and paid by Lincoln University to the State Treasurer. In
     3  respect to expenditures made by the university from moneys other
     4  than those appropriated by this act, the Auditor General shall
     5  have the right to review only, and he shall file annually with
     6  the General Assembly such information concerning said
     7  expenditures as the General Assembly or any of its committees
     8  may require.
     9     Section 5.  A report shall be submitted to the Governor and
    10  the Appropriations and Education Committees of the Senate and
    11  House of Representatives and shall include data for all
    12  programs. The report, to be submitted prior to September 1,
    13  1991, shall cover the 12-month period beginning with the summer
    14  term 1990 and shall include:
    15     (1)  The following counts and distributions for each term
    16  during the period:
    17     (i)  The definitions and numbers of faculty members employed
    18  full time, of faculty members employed part time, of full-time
    19  students enrolled in graduate courses, of full-time students
    20  enrolled in undergraduate courses, of part-time students
    21  enrolled in graduate courses and of part-time students enrolled
    22  in undergraduate courses.
    23     (ii)  The total numbers of undergraduate student credit
    24  hours, divided into lower division and upper division course
    25  levels, and of graduate student credit hours, divided into three
    26  course levels--master's, first professional and doctoral.
    27     (iii)  The number of different courses scheduled by level of
    28  instruction and the number of sections of individual instruction
    29  scheduled by level of instruction, each further subdivided by
    30  two-digit Classification of Instructional Program (CIP)
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     1  categories of instructional programs of higher education as
     2  defined by the National Center for Education Statistics, United
     3  States Department of Education.
     4     (iv)  The number of terms scheduled and the dates thereof.
     5     (2)  For the summer term and the following academic year in
     6  total and for each two-digit CIP program category, a
     7  classification of faculty members or other professional
     8  employees by title, including: professor, associate professor,
     9  assistant professor, instructor, lecturer, research associate,
    10  librarian and academic administrator; faculty members or other
    11  professional employees under each title to be subdivided by type
    12  of assignment: teaching and nonteaching, and each such set of
    13  faculty members or other professional employees to be further
    14  subdivided by type of employment: full-time or part-time and the
    15  following aggregates for each such subdivided classification:
    16     (i)  The number of faculty and other professional employees
    17  and their full-time equivalence in instructional and
    18  noninstructional functions.
    19     (ii)  The sum of credits assigned to undergraduate classroom
    20  courses and the sum of credits assigned to graduate classroom
    21  courses taught, divided into lower division, upper division,
    22  master's, first professional and doctoral course levels.
    23     (iii)  The sum of credits assigned to undergraduate
    24  individual instruction courses and the sum of credits assigned
    25  to graduate individual instruction courses taught, divided into
    26  lower division, upper division, master's, first professional and
    27  doctoral course levels.
    28     (iv)  The sum of undergraduate classroom student credit hours
    29  and the sum of graduate classroom student credit hours
    30  generated, divided into lower division, upper division,
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     1  master's, first professional and doctoral course levels.
     2     (v)  The sum of undergraduate individual instruction student
     3  credit hours and the sum of graduate individual instruction
     4  student credit hours generated, divided into lower division,
     5  upper division, master's, first professional and doctoral course
     6  levels.
     7     (vi)  The total salary paid for instructional functions and
     8  for noninstructional functions and the amount of this salary
     9  paid for each of these functions from university funds, Federal
    10  funds and other funds.
    11     (3)  For each term of the period covered for each faculty
    12  member employed full time identified by two-digit CIP program
    13  category and title, the report shall contain an analysis of the
    14  average hours per week spent in university-related activities,
    15  stating specifically hours spent in undergraduate classroom
    16  contact and graduate classroom contact, hours spent in
    17  preparation, hours spent in research and hours spent in public
    18  service.
    19     Section 6.  In addition to the requirements in section 5
    20  relative to this appropriation, the report covering the 12-month
    21  period beginning with the summer term 1990 shall include for all
    22  programs of the university:
    23     (1)  Minimum number of credits required for a baccalaureate
    24  degree and for a master's degree.
    25     (2)  Number of bachelor's degrees, master's degrees, first
    26  professional degrees and doctoral degrees awarded in 1988, 1989,
    27  1990 and estimated 1991.
    28     Section 7.  Lincoln University shall provide such information
    29  as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this act and
    30  in such form and manner as the Department of Education shall
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     1  prescribe.
     2     Section 8.  Lincoln University shall report its revenues and
     3  expenditures and present its financial statements required under
     4  the provisions of this act in accordance with generally accepted
     5  accounting principles and procedures for educational
     6  institutions as set forth in the "Higher Education Finance
     7  Manual, United States Department of Health, Education and
     8  Welfare (1975)" and the "Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Budget
     9  Instructions for the State System of Higher Education, State-
    10  Related Universities and Non-State-Related Colleges and
    11  Universities."
    12     Section 9.  This act shall take effect July 1, 1990, or
    13  immediately, whichever is later.












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