23-9.6:1.01 - Assessments of institutional performance
§ 23-9.6:1.01. Assessments of institutional performance.
A. 1. The State Council shall develop and revise from time to time, inconsultation with the respective chairmen of the House Committees onEducation and Appropriations and the Senate Committees on Finance andEducation and Health or their designees, representatives of publicinstitutions of higher education, and such other state officials as may bedesignated by the Governor, objective measures of educational-relatedperformance and institutional performance benchmarks for such objectivemeasures. At a minimum, the State Council shall develop objective measuresand institutional performance benchmarks for the goals and objectives setforth in subdivisions B 1 through B 10 of § 23-38.88.
The State Council shall develop the initial objective measures andperformance benchmarks for consideration by the Governor and the GeneralAssembly no later than October 1, 2005.
2. The Governor shall develop and revise from time to time objective measuresof financial and administrative management performance and relatedinstitutional performance benchmarks for the goals and objectives set forthin subdivision B 11 of § 23-38.88. The Governor shall develop the initialmeasures and performance benchmarks and report his recommendations to theGeneral Assembly prior to November 15, 2005.
B. The Governor shall include objective measures of financial andadministrative management and educational-related performance and relatedinstitutional performance benchmarks as described in subsection A in "TheBudget Bill" submitted as required by subsection A of § 2.2-1509 or in hisproposed gubernatorial amendments to the general appropriation act pursuantto subsection E of § 2.2-1509.
C. The State Council shall annually assess the degree to which eachindividual public institution of higher education has met the financial andadministrative management and educational-related performance benchmarks setforth in the appropriation act in effect. Such annual assessment shall bebased upon the objective measures and institutional performance benchmarksincluded in the annual appropriation act in effect. The State Council shallrequest assistance from the Secretaries of Finance and Administration, whoshall provide such assistance, for purposes of assessing whether or notpublic institutions of higher education have met the financial andadministrative management performance benchmarks.
No later than June 1 of every fiscal year beginning with the fiscal year thatimmediately follows the fiscal year of implementation as defined in §2.2-5005, the State Council shall provide a certified written report of theresults of such annual assessment to the Governor and the respective chairmenof the House Committees on Education and Appropriations and the SenateCommittees on Finance and Education and Health.
Those institutions that are certified by the State Council as having met thefinancial and administrative management and educational-related performancebenchmarks in effect for the fiscal year as set forth in the generalappropriation act shall be entitled to the financial benefits set forth in §2.2-5005. Such benefits shall first be provided as determined under suchsection.
(2005, cc. 933, 945.)