Texas Register
TITLE 19 EDUCATION
PART 1TEXAS HIGHER EDUCATION COORDINATING BOARD
CHAPTER 4RULES APPLYING TO ALL PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN TEXAS
SUBCHAPTER RREVIEW OF LOW-PRODUCING DEGREE PROGRAMS
RULE §4.288Notification of Low-Producing Degree Programs
ISSUE 01/23/2015
ACTION Proposed
Preamble Texas Admin Code Rule
(a)Coordinating Board staff will post online [ send each institution] an annual list of low-producing degree programs.

(b)The Board will alert an institution's governing board each year [institution] when a degree program has not met the minimum standards for three consecutive years. [A second alert will follow if that degree program has not met the minimum standards for four consecutive years.]

 (c)Completers of career technical certificate programs that are reported under the same CIP code as an existing applied associate's degree program will be counted as completers of the corresponding applied associate's degree program for purposes of determining low-producing status.

 (d)Academic associate degree programs are not considered to be low producing if they lead to transfer into four-year programs.

The agency certifies that legal counsel has reviewed the proposal and found it to be within the state agency's legal authority to adopt.

Filed with the Office of the Secretary of State on January 12, 2015

TRD-201500070

Bill Franz

General Counsel

Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board

Earliest possible date of adoption: February 22, 2015

For further information, please call: (512) 427-6114

 

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