Institutions Of Higher Education; Other Educational And Cultural Institutions
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Roanoke Higher Education Authority; powers and duties, specialized noncredit workforce training. [HB-1373]
Roanoke Higher Education Authority; board of trustees; powers and duties; specialized noncredit workforce training. Requires the board of trustees of the Roanoke Higher Education Authority to seek opportunities to collaborate with local comprehensive community colleges to meet specialized noncredit workforce training needs identified by industry but provides that if local comprehensive community colleges are unable to meet identified industry needs, then the board may seek to collaborate with other education providers to provide or may provide Roanoke
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Sexual misconduct policies; SCHEV to convene task force on combating violence, civil penalty. [HB-369]
Institutions of higher education; sexual misconduct policies; civil penalty. Requires the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to appoint and convene a task force on combating sexual violence for the purpose of developing a base sexual misconduct campus climate survey to be distributed to institutions of higher education no less than annually. The bill defines "institution of higher education" as any public institution of higher education or any private institution of higher education. The bill permits each institution of higher education
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HB-369: Sexual misconduct policies; SCHEV to convene task force on combating violence, civil penalty.
Sponsored by: Rep. Dan Helmer
Left In Rules on 11/18/2024
Virginia Higher Education Scholarship Act Fund and Program; created and established. [HB-486]
Certain public institutions of higher education; enrollment limitations in incoming freshman classes; Virginia Higher Education Scholarship Act Fund and Program established. Requires, beginning with the incoming freshman class in the 2025 academic year, the board of visitors of each baccalaureate public institution of higher education, with the exception of Norfolk State University, Virginia Military Institute, and Virginia State University, to ensure that the annual percentage of undergraduate non-Virginia students in each incoming freshman class
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HB-486: Virginia Higher Education Scholarship Act Fund and Program; created and established.
Sponsored by: Rep. Thomas Garrett
Left In Education on 11/18/2024
Online educational courses; DOC to establish, etc., an educational program for prisoners. [HB-1121]
Department of Corrections; online educational courses. Requires the Director of the Department of Corrections to establish, develop, and implement an educational program with the Online Virginia Network Authority for the purposes of providing a means for prisoners to earn degrees and postsecondary education credentials through accessing online degree and credential programs that are offered by George Mason University, Old Dominion University, James Madison University, and comprehensive community colleges.
HB-1121: Online educational courses; DOC to establish, etc., an educational program for prisoners.
Sponsored by: Rep. Betsy Carr
Left In Public Safety on 11/18/2024
Historically black colleges and universities; joint subcommittee to study challenges faced, etc. [HJR-25]
Study; joint committee of the House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education and Health; challenges faced by and effective strategies for ensuring the sustainable, long-term success of the five historically black colleges and universities in the Commonwealth; report. Establishes a joint committee consisting of five members of the House Committee on Education and three members of the Senate Committee on Education and Health to study the challenges faced by and effective strategies for ensuring the sustainable, long-term success
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HJR-25: Historically black colleges and universities; joint subcommittee to study challenges faced, etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Sam Rasoul
Left In Rules on 11/18/2024
New College Institute; duties. [SB-62]
New College Institute; duties. Requires the New College Institute to design and implement, in collaboration with the Department of Education, the Virginia Community College System, the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, the Virginia Board of Workforce Development, and other relevant agencies and organizations, any workforce development programs necessary to support the initiatives of the Office of the Governor, including adult education and workforce training programs.
SB-62: New College Institute; duties.
Sponsored by: Sen. William Stanley
Left In Finance And Appropriations on 11/19/2024
New College Institute; duties. [HB-1445]
New College Institute; duties. Requires the New College Institute to design and implement, in collaboration with the Department of Labor and Industry, the Virginia Community College System, the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, the Virginia Board of Workforce Development, and other relevant agencies and organizations, any workforce development programs necessary to support the initiatives of any relevant agency or office of the Commonwealth, including adult education and workforce training programs. The bill contains a reenactment
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HB-1445: New College Institute; duties.
Sponsored by: Rep. Eric Phillips
Left In Finance And Appropriations on 11/19/2024