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WV Code § 18B-1-8 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 18B. Higher Education|Article 1. Governance|§18B-1-8. Student Rights When Institutional Affiliations or Governance Structures Change

(a) When a conflict exists between academic program requirements at an institution to be consolidated, merged, separated from, or administratively linked to another state institution of higher education, the requirements of the institution at which the student initially enrolled prevail. A student may not be required to earn additional credits toward the degree pursued, or to take additional courses, that were not included in the program of study at the time the student declared that major at the enrolling institution.(b) A student enrolled in an institution to be consolidated, merged, separated from, or administratively linked to another state institution of higher education shall continue to receive any state-funded student financial aid for which he or she would otherwise be eligible.
WV Code § 18B-1-11 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 18B. Higher Education|Article 1. Governance|§18B-1-11. Colleges and Universities to Provide Appropriate Services to Meet Needs of Students With Handicapping Conditions

Each state funded institution of higher education accepting students with handicapping conditions, such as physical, learning, or severe sensory disabilities, shall provide services in accordance with Rehabilitation Act 504 appropriate to meet the educational needs of these students. Such information shall be provided to local boards of education for information dissemination to students and parents to fulfill the goals of transition.
WV Code § 18B-1A-4 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 18B. Higher Education|Article 1A. Compact With Higher Education for the Future of West Virginia|§18B-1A-4. Legislative Financing Goals

(a) The Legislature recognizes that the higher education goals set forth in section one-a, article one of this chapter are of utmost importance. The Legislature further recognizes that meeting the goals may require the appropriation of funds above the current operating budgets of the institutions.(b) It is, therefore, the desire of the Legislature to increase funding annually for higher education at a rate not less than the annual percentage increase in the overall general revenue budget.(c) If the commission or council, or both, determines that appropriations are insufficient to fund the requirements of the institutional compacts under its jurisdiction, the commission or council first shall consider extending the length of the compacts or otherwise modifying the compacts to allow the institutions to achieve the benchmarks in the compacts. If modifications to the institutional compacts are not sufficient to allow the institutions to meet their benchmarks, the commission or council, or both, shall recommend to the Legislature methods of making the higher education system more efficient. The methods may include, but are not limited to, the following:(1) Administrative efficiencies;(2) Consolidation of services;(3) Elimination of programs;(4) Consolidating institutions; and(5) Closing institutions.
WV Code § 18B-1B-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 18B. Higher Education|Article 1B. Higher Education Policy Commission|§18B-1B-1. Higher Education Policy Commission Established; Development of Public Policy Agenda

There is hereby created the “Higher Education Policy Commission”, hereinafter referred to as the “commission”. It is the intent of the Legislature that the commission be responsible to provide shared services in a cost-effective manner upon request by the state colleges and universities, the council, and the community and technical colleges; undertake certain statewide and regional initiatives as specifically designated in this code, including those related to the administration of grants and scholarships and including those in conjunction with the council; to review, confirm or approve certain actions undertaken by the governing boards, as delineated in this chapter; and develop and gain consensus around the public policy agenda for higher education and other statewide issues pursuant to section one-a, article one of this chapter under the following conditions:(a) It is the responsibility of the commission to work collaboratively with the governing boards and the council to develop and gain consensus around the public policy agenda for higher education.(b) It is the responsibility of the council to oversee the implementation of the public policy agenda for the institutions under its jurisdiction.(c) All matters of governance not specifically assigned to the commission or council by law are the duty and responsibility of the governing boards.
WV Code § 18B-1B-3 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 18B. Higher Education|Article 1B. Higher Education Policy Commission|§18B-1B-3. Meetings and Compensation

(a) The commission shall meet as needed at the time and place specified by the call of the chairperson.(b) The commission shall hold an annual meeting at the final, regularly scheduled meeting of each fiscal year for the purpose of electing officers. At the annual meeting, the commission shall elect from its members appointed by the Governor a chairperson and other officers as it may consider necessary or desirable. All officers are elected from the citizen appointees. The chairperson and other officers are elected for a one-year term commencing on July 1, following the annual meeting and ending on June 30 of the following year. The chairperson of the commission may serve no more than four consecutive terms as chair.(c) Members of the commission shall be reimbursed for actual and necessary expenses incident to the performance of their duties upon presentation of an itemized sworn statement thereof. The foregoing reimbursement for actual and necessary expenses shall be paid from appropriations made by the Legislature to the commission.(d) A majority of the members constitutes a quorum for conducting the business of the commission.
WV Code § 18B-1B-7 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 18B. Higher Education|Article 1B. Higher Education Policy Commission|§18B-1B-7. Student Mental Health Policies; Suicide Prevention

(a) Each public and private institution of higher education shall develop and implement a policy to advise students and staff on suicide prevention programs available on and off campus that includes, but is not limited to:(1) Crisis intervention access, which includes information for national, state and local suicide prevention hotlines;(2) Mental health program access, which provides information on the availability of local mental health clinics, student health services and counseling services;(3) Multimedia application access, which includes crisis hotline contact information, suicide warning signs, resources offered and free-of-cost applications;(4) Student communication plans, which consist of creating outreach plans regarding educational and outreach activities on suicide prevention; and(5) Post intervention plans which include creating a strategic plan to communicate effectively with students, staff and parents after the loss of a student to suicide.(b) Each public and private institution of higher education shall provide all incoming students with information about depression and suicide prevention resources available to students. The information provided to students shall include available mental health services and other support services, including student-run organizations for individuals at risk of or affected by suicide.(c) The information prescribed by subsection (a), subdivisions (1) through (4) of this section shall be posted on the website of each institution of higher education in this state.(d) Any applicable free-of-cost prevention materials or programs shall be posted on the websites of the public and private institutions of higher education, the Higher Education Policy Commission, and the West Virginia Council for Community and Technical College Education.
WV Code § 18B-1D-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 18B. Higher Education|Article 1D. Higher Education Accountability|§18B-1D-1. Master Plan Repealed; Accountability System Continued

(a) The Legislature finds that:(1) Accountability and strategic planning are valuable and necessary components of establishing and achieving goals for higher education in this state and fulfilling missions of the institutions;(2) To be most effective and efficient, the accountability and strategic planning process should be coordinated, streamlined, and nonduplicative; and(3) Redundant reporting requirements exist in the accountability and strategic planning process which serve to waste scarce resources and decrease efficiency. (b) It is the intent of the Legislature that the accountability and strategic planning process for public higher education in this state continues in a unified and comprehensive manner while utilizing the resources of the higher education systems in an economical and efficient manner. To that end:(1) The requirement for a statewide master plan for public higher education is repealed, and any provision of this code regarding the plan is void and of no effect;(2) The requirements for state and institutional compacts for public higher education are repealed, and any provision of this code regarding the compacts are void and of no effect; and(3) When collecting data from an institution, the commission and council first shall consider data generated from the unit-record student, registration, course and personnel files, the audited financial statements, and any source previously submitted formally to the commission or council from which the requested data may be obtained, so long as the data or information available through these sources reflects the most current reporting period.
WV Code § 18B-1D-8a (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 18B. Higher Education|Article 1D. Higher Education Accountability|§18B-1D-8a. Modification to Reporting Requirements to the Legislative Oversight Commission on Education Accountability

(a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this code to the contrary, the following statutorily mandated reports are not required to be prepared and submitted annually to the Legislature but this information and data previously contained therein shall be combined with other reports in a manner that reduces the cost and increases the efficacy of those reports. This includes:(1) All personnel, classification, compensation and human resources reports set out in section four, article one-b of this chapter, section six, article two-b of this chapter and article nine-a of this chapter;(2) All capital appropriation requests, priorities and campus and state capital development plans set out in section four, article one-b of this chapter, section six, article two-b of this chapter and article nineteen of this chapter;(3) All academic related matters and reports including those detailing institutional reauthorization at section seven, article four of this chapter; training of institutional Boards of Governors set out in section nine, article one-d of this chapter and section one, article ten of this chapter dealing with institutional compliance with tuition and fee increases;(4) All financial aid reports including PROMISE, HEAPS, the Higher Education Grant Program, the Nursing Scholarship Program, the Underwood-Smith Teacher Scholarship Program and others set out in chapter eighteen-c of this code.(b) In order to create more efficiency, reporting deadlines of statutorily or rule mandated reports may be altered, as needed by the Commission without a statutory or rule-making change,: Provided, That the reports are always provided within any given calendar year.
WV Code § 18B-1D-9 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 18B. Higher Education|Article 1D. Higher Education Accountability|§18B-1D-9. Commission, Council and Institutional Governing Board Training and Development; Training and Development Requirements, Applicability and Exceptions

(a) The commission and council, either jointly or separately, shall coordinate periodic training and development opportunities for members of the commission, council and institutional governing boards as provided in this section.The training and development shall address the following topics:(1) State goals, objectives and priorities for higher education;(2) The accountability system for higher education set forth in this article;(3) The general powers and duties of members; and(4) Ethical considerations arising from board membership.(b) Training and development is required as follows:(1) A member newly appointed to the commission, council or a governing board shall complete three hours of training and development by the end of the first fiscal year of service if the appointment is made in the first half of a fiscal year. If the appointment is made in the second half of a fiscal year the member shall complete three hours of training and development by the end of the first half of the second fiscal year. (2) With the exception of the ex officio members of the commission and the council and the student member of a governing board, each member shall complete at least six hours of training and development related to his or her duties within two fiscal years of beginning service and within every two fiscal years of service thereafter.(c) Annually, by July 31, the chair of the commission, council and each governing board shall certify to the commission or council, as appropriate, the number of hours of training and development that each member received during the preceding fiscal year.(d) If the certification indicates that a board member has not completed the training and development required by this section, the commission or council, as appropriate, shall send a notice to the affected board member, and to the Governor and the Secretary of State or to the institutional appointing entity that the board member is disqualified from continued service notwithstanding the provisions of sections five and six, article six, chapter six of this code. The commission or council, as appropriate, shall request the Governor or appointing entity to appoint a replacement for that board member.(e) Annually, by September 30, the commission and council shall report to the Legislative Oversight Commission on Education Accountability on the training and development that members of the commission and council and the governing boards under their respective jurisdictions have received during the preceding fiscal year. This information shall be included in the institutional and statewide report cards provided in section eight of this article.(f) As used in this section, "member" means all members of the commission, council and the governing boards unless a specific exception is provided in this section.
WV Code § 18B-1F-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 18B. Higher Education|Article 1F. Management Agreements for the Higher Education Policy Commission|§18B-1F-1. Legislative Findings and Purpose

(a) The Legislature finds that economic development in West Virginia depends in part on collaborations developed between higher education and businesses and industry, particularly in the advancement of new and emerging technologies. It is in the best interests of the citizens of the state to implement programs which promote this research and contribute to the general economic welfare.(b) The Legislature further finds that the transfer of property to the Commission to establish the West Virginia Education, Research and Technology Park created a new and unprecedented opportunity to promote research and development in the state. An efficiently managed Technology Park will encourage private sector participation in and support for research and economic development and will facilitate collaboration among the commission, the doctoral institutions and their research corporations.(c) It is the responsibility of the commission to ensure that the day to day operations of the Technology Park are carried out effectively and efficiently in order to provide the greatest investment return to the people of West Virginia. To this end the Legislature finds that a mechanism is needed to simplify and expedite property management and purchasing of equipment, material and personal services.(d) Therefore, the purpose of this article is to provide the commission with the authority necessary to carry out its responsibilities related to the operation of the Technology Park. The commission is authorized to enter into agreements and other contractual relationships with an affiliated corporation in order to achieve maximum efficiency in managing the Technology Park.
WV Code § 18B-1F-2 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 18B. Higher Education|Article 1F. Management Agreements for the Higher Education Policy Commission|§18B-1F-2. Definitions

The following words used in this article have the meanings ascribed to them in this section unless the context clearly indicates a different meaning:(a) "Affiliated corporation" or "corporation" means a corporation which meets the essential criteria prescribed in section three of this article and whose purpose is to provide management services to the commission in carrying out the day to day operations of the Technology Park;(b) "Agreement" means an agreement or contractual relationship entered into between the commission and an affiliated corporation pursuant to the provisions of this article;(c) "Board of directors" means the governing body of a corporation created pursuant to section three of this article;(d) "Doctoral institution" means Marshall University or West Virginia University;(e) "Executive director" means the chief executive officer of an affiliated corporation employed pursuant to section five of this article;(f) "Potential membership" means the total number of members who comprise the board of directors when all membership seats are filled;(g) "Private sector member" means a director of an affiliated corporation who is not an employee of the commission nor of any entity bearing a direct or indirect relationship to the commission;(h) "Research corporation" means a corporation established with respect to Marshall University or West Virginia University pursuant to section three, article twelve of this chapter; and(i) "Technology Park" means the state-owned West Virginia Education, Research and Technology Park affiliated with the commission.
WV Code § 18B-1F-3 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 18B. Higher Education|Article 1F. Management Agreements for the Higher Education Policy Commission|§18B-1F-3. Commission Authorized to Contract With Corporation; Corporation to Meet Essential Criteria; Corporation Membership and Organization; Financial Requirements

(a) The commission is authorized to enter into agreements and any other contractual relationships with an affiliated corporation formed as set forth in this article.(b) The affiliated corporation shall meet the following essential criteria:(1) Corporation status. -- The corporation is organized as a non-profit, non-stock corporation under the general corporation laws of the state exclusively for charitable, educational or scientific purposes within the meaning of section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.(2) Corporation membership, meetings, officers. --(A) Members of the board of directors of the affiliated corporation serve terms as prescribed in the bylaws of the corporation and are selected by the commission in consultation with the chancellor. The commission shall make all appointments to the board of directors by majority vote of its members and shall include the individual votes as a part of the minute record.(B) Private sector members shall constitute a majority of the potential membership of the board of directors. Vacancies shall be filled in such a way that the majority status of private sector membership is maintained.(C) By July 1, 2011, and at least biennially thereafter, the board of directors shall elect a chair from among its members.
WV Code § 18B-1F-4 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 18B. Higher Education|Article 1F. Management Agreements for the Higher Education Policy Commission|§18B-1F-4. Powers and Duties of Board of Directors and Corporation

(a) The primary responsibility of the corporation is to manage the day-to-day operations of the technology park through collaboration agreements with the commission. To that end, the board of directors has the following powers and duties:(1) To employ an executive director subject to the provisions of section five of this article;(2) To approve employment of other staff recommended by the executive director as being necessary and appropriate to carry out the purposes of this article and subject to agreements with the commission;(3) To serve as fiscal agent and provide additional services, including, but not limited to, property management, human resources management and purchasing;(4) To meet as a governing body. A corporation created under this article is exempt from the provisions of section three, article nine-a, chapter six of this code and from the provisions of article one, chapter twenty-nine-b of this code;(5) To receive, purchase, hold, lease, use, sell and dispose of real and personal property of all classes, subject to the provisions of subdivision (8) of this subsection and section eight of this article;(6) To receive from any source whatsoever grants to be expended in accomplishing the objectives of this article;(7) To receive from any source whatsoever aid or contributions of money, property or other things of value to be held, used and applied only for the purposes for which the aid or contributions may be made;(8) To accept and expend any gift, grant, contribution, bequest, endowment or other money for the purposes of this article. Any transfer of endowment or other assets by the commission to the corporation or by the corporation to the commission for management shall be formalized in a memorandum of agreement to assure, at a minimum, that any restrictions governing the future disposition of funds are preserved. The commission may not transfer ownership of the technology park property to the corporation;(9) To make, amend and repeal bylaws, rules and its governing documents consistent with the provisions of this article to effectuate the purpose and scope of the corporation;(10) To alter the purpose or scope of the corporation; and(11) To delegate the exercise of any of its powers except for the power to approve budgets to the executive director, subject to the directions and limitations contained in its governing documents.(b) In addition to the powers and duties provided for in this section and any other powers and duties that may be assigned to it by law or agreement, the corporation has other powers and duties necessary to accomplish the objectives of this article or as provided by law.