Sec. 10a-25h. Higher education centers of excellence.
Sec. 10a-25h. Higher education centers of excellence. (a) In order to develop
and further encourage excellence in public higher education, the boards of trustees of
the constituent units of the state system of higher education, not including the Board
for State Academic Awards, are hereby authorized to establish and administer centers
to be known as Connecticut higher education centers of excellence. Appropriations to
these centers shall be used for the development or enhancement of essential support for
academic, research, or public service centers of excellence which have gained or may
gain regional and national prominence or for libraries or equipment for present enhancement to existing programs deemed to have potential for excellence with such enhancement.
(b) For the purposes of this section, a center of excellence is defined as a distinctive
or potentially distinctive instructional, research or public service program at an institution of a constituent unit of the state system of higher education.
(c) Priority of funding for centers of excellence shall be for those programs which
receive matching support, in the form of in-kind or actual funds, from business, industry
or federal government sources.
(P.A. 84-368, S. 1, 5; P.A. 86-283, S. 1.)
History: Editorial substitution of the word "of" for the word "for" in board of governors' title was made to conform
with provisions of P.A. 84-241, S. 2; P.A. 86-283 substituted the boards of trustees of the constituent units for the board
of governors of higher education and substituted centers of excellence for fund for excellence in Subsec. (a).