Educational Institutions
Virginia 2014 Special I
Commending Virginia Union University. [HJR-5251]
Commending Virginia Union University.
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Commending the University of Virginia baseball team. [HJR-5220]
Commending the University of Virginia baseball team.
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Virginia 2014 Special I
Commending the Bridgewater College men's baseball team. [HJR-5104]
Commending the Bridgewater College men's baseball team.
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Virginia 2014 Special I
Commending the University of Virginia men's basketball team. [HJR-5072]
Commending the University of Virginia men's basketball team.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Commending Wytheville Community College. [SJR-93]
Commending Wytheville Community College.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Pay It Forward, Pay It Back; SCHEV to study feasibility of implementing. [SJR-25]
Study; SCHEV; Pay It Forward, Pay It Back; report. Directs the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to study the feasibility of implementing a "Pay It Forward, Pay It Back" higher education tuition financing model to increase access to educational opportunities and to decrease the debt burden on students in the Commonwealth. This resolution was continued to the 2015 Session of the General Assembly.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Commending the Virginia State University Gospel Chorale. [SJR-121]
Commending the Virginia State University Gospel Chorale.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Suffolk, City of, & Paul D. Camp Community College; to collaborate on joint academic center, etc. [SJR-101]
City of Suffolk. Encourages the City of Suffolk and Paul D. Camp Community College to collaborate on the creation of a joint academic center and new library for the Suffolk region.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Students with developmental and intellectual disabilities; SCHEV to study. [SJR-10]
Study; strategies for improving access to higher education for students with developmental and intellectual disabilities; report. Requests the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) to study strategies for improving access to higher education for students with developmental and intellectual disabilities. In conducting the study, SCHEV shall report on the number and percentage of students with developmental and intellectual disabilities who were enrolled at each public institution of higher education based on the fall counts for the
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; preservation of Stadium Woods property. [SB-92]
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; preservation of Stadium Woods property. Prohibits the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Board of Visitors from transferring, building on, or otherwise disposing of the property known as Stadium Woods that includes 11.3 acres of old growth white oak forest owned and possessed by the University and that is adjacent to the east side of Lane Stadium.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Higher educational institutions; maintenance of optional retirement plan. [SB-79]
Optional retirement plan maintained by institution of higher education; withdrawal of contributions before retirement. Allows the governing board of an institution of higher education to establish a policy regarding the number of years of service, or any portion thereof, that an employee must have performed before being entitled to receive all optional retirement plan contributions made on his behalf by the institution if he ceases to be an employee other than by death or retirement. The policy would only apply to employees hired on or after July
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
FOIA; record exemption for certain administrative investigations by higher educational institutions. [SB-78]
Virginia Freedom of Information Act; record exemption for administrative investigations by public institutions of higher education. Exempts from FOIA administrative investigations conducted by a public institution of higher education relating to individual employment discrimination complaints or audits/investigations of any officer, department, or program at such institutions.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Higher educational institutions; educational programs for governing boards. [SB-669]
Public institutions of higher education; educational program for governing boards. Requires the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia's educational program for members of governing boards of public institutions of higher education in the Commonwealth to include a presentation related to the board members' duty to the Commonwealth.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Community college mental health services; Virginia Community College System to create pilot program. [SB-663]
Virginia community college mental health services pilot program. Requires the Virginia Community College System to create a pilot program to establish a plan or contract with community groups or both to provide mental health services to uninsured students and such other students as the System may identify at eight community college campuses in the Commonwealth, as determined by the System. The bill requires a central program manager for the pilot program. The bill provides that the provision of mental health services will continue through June 30,
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Higher educational institutions; tuition waiver for dependent children of faculty. [SB-633]
Higher education; tuition waiver for dependent children of faculty. Authorizes public institutions of higher education to grant full or partial tuition waivers to dependent students of faculty members employed by the institution, to be paid out of the institution's nongeneral funds. The bill would also authorize public institutions to enter into reciprocal agreements that would allow the dependents of faculty to use waivers at other public institutions that are party to the agreement.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Community colleges; workforce training. [SB-628]
Community colleges; workforce training. Establishes the Community College Workforce Training Grant Program to provide a $1,000 incentive payment to a community college for each student who (i) has successfully completed a noncredit workforce training program at the community college and (ii) subsequently obtains an industry-recognized certification or license in a high employer demand field in the region served by the community college, with such fields to be identified by the State Board for Community Colleges.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Christopher Newport University; membership of Board of Visitors. [SB-626]
Christopher Newport University; Board of Visitors. Requires at least six of the 14 members of the Christopher Newport University Board of Visitors to be alumni of the University.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Longwood University; removal of member of Board of Visitors. [SB-581]
Longwood University Board of Visitors; removal of visitors. Provides that if any member of the Longwood University Board of Visitors fails to perform the duties of his office for one year without sufficient cause shown to the board, the office of such visitor shall be vacated. The bill also provides that if so many of such visitors fail to perform their duties that a quorum is not met for a year, the rector, any member of the board, or the president of the University may certify such fact to the Governor and the offices of all visitors failing to
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
College partnership laboratory schools; tuition. [SB-562]
College partnership laboratory schools; tuition. Authorizes the school board of a school division that partners with a college partnership laboratory school to charge tuition to students enrolled in the college partnership laboratory school who do not reside within the partnering division.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Driver education; community colleges shall have authority to offer courses to become instructor. [SB-554]
Driver education instructors. Allows community colleges to offer courses required to become driver education instructors.