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2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 102 - Athlete Agents And Student Athletes › Section 59-102-170. Administrative fine.

Upon a finding that an athlete agent has violated a provision of this chapter, as determined from admissions of the athlete agent freely and voluntarily made or as the result of a contested case hearing, the administrative law judge may assess a fine against an athlete agent not to exceed one hundred thousand dollars for a violation of this chapter.
HISTORY: 2004 Act No. 300, Section 1, eff September 8, 2004; 2005 Act No. 128, Section 19, eff July 1, 2005; 2018 Act No. 235 (H.3068), Section 1, eff May 17, 2018.
Comment
Editor's Note
2005 Act No. 128, Section 27, provides as follows:
"This act takes effect on July 1, 2005, and applies to all licensing and administrative hearings involving the South Carolina Department of Consumer Affairs."
Effect of Amendment
The 2005 amendment substituted "the Administrative Law Judge" for "conducted pursuant to the Administrative Procedures Act, the Department of Consumer Affairs".
2018 Act No. 235, Section 1, reenacted the section with no apparent change.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 102 - Athlete Agents And Student Athletes › Section 59-102-180. Application and construction of act.

In applying and construing this uniform act, consideration must be given to the need to promote uniformity of the law with respect to its subject matter among states that enact it.
HISTORY: 2004 Act No. 300, Section 1, eff September 8, 2004; 2018 Act No. 235 (H.3068), Section 1, eff May 17, 2018.
Effect of Amendment
2018 Act No. 235, Section 1, reenacted the section with no apparent change.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 102 - Athlete Agents And Student Athletes › Section 59-102-190. Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act.

The provisions of this chapter modify, limit, or supersede the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, 15 U.S.C. Section 7001, et seq., but do not modify, limit, or supersede Section 101(c) of that act, 15 U.S.C. Section 7001(c), or authorize electronic delivery of any of the notices described in Section 103(b) of that act, 15 U.S.C. Section 7003(b).
HISTORY: 2018 Act No. 235 (H.3068), Section 1, eff May 17, 2018.
Comment
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 103 - State Commission On Higher Education › Section 59-103-5. Definitions.

For purposes of this chapter (1) "public higher education" shall mean state-supported education in the post-secondary field, including comprehensive and technical education; (2) "public institution of higher learning" shall mean any state-supported-post-secondary educational institution and shall include technical and comprehensive educational institutions.
HISTORY: 1978 Act No. 410, Section 1.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 103 - State Commission On Higher Education › Section 59-103-17. Interstate reciprocity for postsecondary distance education.

(A) The Commission on Higher Education may enter into interstate reciprocity agreements, including, but not limited to, the State Authorization Reciprocity Agreement, that authorize accredited degree-granting institutions of higher education that offer postsecondary distance education to do so through such reciprocity agreements. The commission shall administer these agreements and shall approve or disapprove participation in these agreements by accredited degree-granting institutions of higher education in this State. The commission may assume and exercise all powers, duties, and responsibilities associated with and required under the terms of an interstate reciprocity agreement.
(B) The commission may develop policies, procedures, or regulations necessary for the implementation of this section, including the establishment of fees to be paid by participating institutions to cover direct and indirect administrative costs incurred by the commission. Participation in interstate reciprocity agreements shall be voluntary to eligible institutions of higher education in this State.
(C) Nothing in this section may be construed to prohibit institutions of higher education in this State that do not participate in any interstate reciprocity agreement entered into by the commission from offering postsecondary distance education.
(D) Nothing in this section may be construed to prohibit or reduce the commission's authority over institutions of higher education offering distance education in this State if the institution is not a participant in the interstate reciprocity agreement in which the commission participates.
HISTORY: 2016 Act No. 146 (H.4639), Section 1, eff March 14, 2016.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 103 - State Commission On Higher Education › Section 59-103-20. Studies of institutions of higher learning.

The commission shall meet regularly and shall have the authority and responsibility for a coordinated, efficient, and responsive higher education system in this State consistent with the missions of each type of institution as stipulated in Section 59-103-15. In meeting this responsibility and in performing its duties and functions, the commission shall coordinate and collaborate at a minimum with the Council of Presidents of State Institutions, the council of board chairs of the various public institutions of higher learning, and the business community. The commission also is charged with examining the State's institutions of higher learning relative to both short and long-range programs and missions which include:
(a) the role of state-supported higher education in serving the needs of the State and the roles and participation of the individual institutions in the statewide program;
(b) enrollment trends, student costs, business management practices, accounting methods, operating results and needs, and capital fund requirements;
(c) the administrative setup and curriculum offerings of the several institutions and of the various departments, schools, institutes, and services within each institution and the respective relationships to the services and offerings of other institutions;
(d) areas of state-level coordination and cooperation with the objective of reducing duplication, increasing effectiveness, and achieving economies and eliminating sources of friction and misunderstanding;
(e) efforts to promote a clearer understanding and greater unity and good will among all institutions of higher learning, both public and private, in the interest of serving the educational needs of the people of South Carolina on a statewide level.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 22-15.7; 1962 (52) 1956; 1967 (55) 261; 1996 Act No. 359, Section 3.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 103 - State Commission On Higher Education › Section 59-103-25. Publication of legislation; standing committees.

The commission shall compile and publish legislation applicable to it so that the relationships among the commission, the governing bodies of public institutions of higher education, the General Assembly and the executive branches of government may be more clearly established and understood.
The commission shall create from among its membership such standing committees as it may deem necessary. The creation of the committees and their duties shall be prescribed by a two-thirds vote of the membership of the commission. Special committees may be created and their duties prescribed by a majority vote of the membership of the commission.
HISTORY: 1978 Act No. 410, Section 5.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 103 - State Commission On Higher Education › Section 59-103-35. Submission of budget; new and existing programs.

All public institutions of higher learning shall submit annual budget requests to the commission in the manner set forth in this section. The State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education shall submit an annual budget request to the commission representing the total requests of all area-wide technical and comprehensive educational institutions. The budget submitted by each institution and the State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education must include all state funds, federal grants, tuition, and fees other than funds derived wholly from athletic or other student contests, from the activities of student organizations, from approved private practice plans, and from the operation of canteens and bookstores which may be retained by the institutions and be used as determined by the respective governing boards, subject to annual audit by the State. Fees established by the respective governing boards for programs, activities, and projects not covered by appropriations or other revenues may be retained and used by each institution as previously determined by the respective governing boards, subject to annual audit by the State. The budget request for the public higher education system shall be submitted by the commission to the Governor and appropriate standing committees of the General Assembly in conjunction with the preparation of the annual general appropriations act for the applicable year.
Supplemental appropriations requests from any public institution of higher education must be submitted first to the commission. If the commission does not concur in the requests, the affected institution may request a hearing on the requests before the appropriate committee of the General Assembly. The commission may appear at the hearing and present its own recommendations and findings to the same committee. The provisions of this paragraph do not apply to any capital improvement projects funded in whole or in part prior to July 30, 1996.
No new program may be undertaken by any public institution of higher education without the approval of the commission. The provisions of this chapter apply to all college parallel, transferable, and associate degree programs of technical and comprehensive education institutions. All other programs and offerings of technical and comprehensive education institutions are excluded from this chapter.
HISTORY: 1978 Act No. 410 Section 8; 1988 Act No. 629, Section 3; 1993 Act No. 178, Section 37; 1996 Act No. 359, Section 5.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 103 - State Commission On Higher Education › Section 59-103-36. Military students included in count of full-time students.

Military students in the senior colleges and universities of this State shall be included in the count of full-time equivalent students for the purpose of determining the appropriation of each institution. The Commission on Higher Education and the Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office may make whatever audit adjustments are necessary to carry out this intent.
HISTORY: 1981 Act No. 152, Section 1.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 103 - State Commission On Higher Education › Section 59-103-40. Council of presidents of state institutions of higher learning.

The Commission shall establish a council of presidents consisting of the presidents of the State institutions of higher learning. The council of presidents shall appoint a chairman and such other officers and committees as it may see fit. It shall meet at least four times a year, of which two meetings will be held jointly with the Commission. The council of presidents shall establish committees consisting of qualified personnel representing the various State-supported institutions of higher learning, either upon request of the Commission or upon its own initiative, to investigate, study and report to the Commission on such subjects as:
(a) Academic planning
(b) Business and financial coordination
(c) Library utilization and coordination.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 22-15.8; 1962 (52) 1956; 1967 (55) 261.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 103 - State Commission On Higher Education › Section 59-103-50. Advisory Council of Private College Presidents.

There shall be established, under the auspices of the commission, an Advisory Council of Private College Presidents to counsel with and advise the commission with regard to matters concerning nonpublic colleges and their role in overall programs of higher education in the State. The council shall consist of eight members selected by the South Carolina College Council. Terms of members shall be for two years. A chairman shall be elected by the members. The council shall meet upon the call of the chairman and shall meet at least once annually with the commission. The members of the council serving on this section's effective date may continue to serve until the expiration of their terms.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 22-15.8:1; 1972 (57) 2627; 1992 Act No. 373, Section 2.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 103 - State Commission On Higher Education › Section 59-103-55. Representation of four-year colleges on commission councils, advisory groups, committees and task forces.

Each four-year campus of each state-supported public institution of higher learning, as defined in Section 59-103-5, shall have equal representation on all formal and informal councils, advisory groups, committees, and task forces of the commission. Independent four-year colleges shall have representation on all formal and informal committees and commissions dealing with higher education statewide issues.
HISTORY: 2002 Act No. 356, Section 1, Part II.A.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 103 - State Commission On Higher Education › Section 59-103-60. Recommendations to Governor's Office and General Assembly.

The commission shall make such recommendations to the Governor's Office and the General Assembly as to policies, programs, curricula, facilities, administration, and financing of all state-supported institutions of higher learning as may be considered desirable. The House Ways and Means Committee, the Senate Finance Committee, and the Office of the Governor may refer to the commission for investigation, study, and report any requests of institutions of higher learning for new or additional appropriations for operating and for other purposes and for the establishment of new or expanded programs.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 22-15.9; 1962(52) 1956, 1967(55) 261; 1978 Act No. 410, Section 7; 1995 Act No. 137, Section 3; 1996 Act No. 359, Section 7.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 103 - State Commission On Higher Education › Section 59-103-65. Closure of an institution; reallocation of funds.

If an institution beginning July 1, 1999, is closed by the commission, the institution shall be treated as a terminated agency under Section 1-20-30 and as such terminated in the manner provided therein. However, any remaining funds shall not revert to the general fund as provided in Section 1-20-30 but instead shall be reallocated to higher education funding through use of the higher education funding formula in the manner the commission shall provide.
HISTORY: 1996 Act No. 359, Section 8.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 103 - State Commission On Higher Education › Section 59-103-70. Reports.

The Commission shall make reports to the Governor and the General Assembly at least annually on the status and progress of higher education in the State, with such recommendations as may be appropriate.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 22-15.10; 1962 (52) 1956; 1967 (55) 261.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 103 - State Commission On Higher Education › Section 59-103-80. Expenses; compensation of Commission members.

Funds for the necessary technical, administrative and clerical assistance and other expenses of the Commission, including stationery, shall be carried in the annual appropriation act for the State. The members of the Commission shall be allowed such per diem and mileage as authorized by law for members of boards, commissions and committees. The sum appropriated for the use of the Commission shall be expended upon warrants signed by the chairman.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 22-15.11; 1962 (52) 1956; 1967 (55) 261.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 103 - State Commission On Higher Education › Section 59-103-90. Professional staff.

An executive director must be appointed by the commission to manage and carry out the duties of the commission as prescribed by law and assigned by the commission. The executive director is not subject to the State Employee Grievance Procedure Act of 1982 and may be dismissed without cause.
A professional staff complement shall be established by the executive director who shall ensure that there are persons on the staff who have the professional competence and experience to carry out the duties assigned and to ensure that there are persons on the staff who are familiar with the problems and capabilities of all of the principal types of state-supported institutions in the State. Provision shall be made for persons of high competence and strong professional experience in the areas of academic affairs, public service and extension programs, business and financial affairs, institutional studies and long-range planning, student affairs, research and development, legal affairs, health affairs, institutional development, and for state and federal programs administered by the commission. The hiring of additional staff members to any position for which funds were not specifically appropriated by the General Assembly shall require prior approval by the General Assembly.
HISTORY: 1978 Act No. 410 Section 6; 1995 Act No. 137, Section 4.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 103 - State Commission On Higher Education › Section 59-103-110. Approval for new construction; exemptions.

No public institution of higher learning shall be authorized to construct or purchase any new permanent facility at any location other than on a currently approved campus or on property immediately contiguous thereto unless such new location or purchase of improved or unimproved real property has been approved by the commission.
HISTORY: 1978 Act No. 410, Section 9; 1996 Act No. 359, Section 9.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 103 - State Commission On Higher Education › Section 59-103-120. Accreditation and chartering of chiropractic colleges.

One hundred and eighty days from the effective date of this act, the State Commission on Higher Education shall publish a list of the accrediting agency or agencies, which may include itself, approved by it for accreditation of chiropractic colleges or schools doing business in this State. Any chiropractic college or school doing business in this State shall, upon publication of said list of such accrediting agency or agencies, forthwith apply for such accreditation or candidate status and furnish the State Commission on Higher Education documented evidence of such application.
Failure to obtain such accreditation or candidate status within nineteen months after publication of the list of approved agencies shall result in the Commission on Higher Education revoking the status of such college or school as a recognized college or school of chiropractic.
Provided, further, any college of chiropractic applying for a South Carolina charter must furnish the Commission on Higher Education with sufficient evidence that such school will qualify for required accreditation. Upon certification by the Commission on Higher Education to the Secretary of State, the Secretary of State may issue a charter; provided, further, however, that any college now chartered must attain required licensure before one hundred eighty days after the effective date of this act or have its charter revoked upon a finding by the Attorney General that such licensure has not been attained by such date. In addition to other existing criteria, licensure of all chiropractic colleges shall be renewable annually contingent upon supplying semiannual reports as to the progress of accreditation to the Commission on Higher Education and the Commission shall make a determination if such progress is satisfactory.
HISTORY: 1980 Act No. 307, Section 1; 1981 Act No. 178, Part II, Section 6.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 103 - State Commission On Higher Education › Section 59-103-130. Colleges and universities to emphasize teaching as career opportunity.

The Commission on Higher Education shall adopt guidelines whereby the publicly supported colleges and universities of this State shall emphasize teaching as a career opportunity and provide students interested in a teaching career with opportunities to tutor other students.
HISTORY: 1984 Act No. 512, Part II, Section 9, Division II, Subdivision C, Subpart 1, Section 1(D).
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 103 - State Commission On Higher Education › Section 59-103-140. Contracts with colleges and universities for provision of teacher training programs.

The Commission on Higher Education, in consultation with the State Board of Education, may contract with selected public or private colleges and universities, or groupings of such institutions, to provide centers of excellence in programs designed to train teachers. The Commission shall devise guidelines and procedures by which institutions, or groups of institutions, may apply for such contracts by the Commission. Such guidelines and procedures shall include participation by local schools or school districts in such programs as may be appropriate. Funds for implementing this activity shall be appropriated annually to the Commission on Higher Education which, in consultation with the State Board of Education, shall monitor the performance of participating institutions and may or may not elect to renew such contracts to any original college or university.
HISTORY: 1984 Act No. 512, Part II, Section 9, Division II, Subdivision C, Subpart 3, Section 2.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 103 - State Commission On Higher Education › Section 59-103-150. Early retirement plans for faculty of public institutions of higher learning.

(A) As long as there is no impact on state appropriations and subject to approval by the governing body of the public institution of higher education, the institution may implement an early retirement plan for its faculty to accomplish the following objectives:
(1) reallocate institutional resources;
(2) provide an equitable method to increase the flexibility of the institution to effect cost-saving measures;
(3) foster intellectual renewal;
(4) provide increased opportunities for promotion of a younger faculty;
(5) improve the opportunity to recruit qualified women and minorities.
(B) An early retirement plan may include provisions for institutions to pay:
(1) actuarial costs required by Sections 9-1-1850 and 9-11-60;
(2) health, dental, and life insurance costs;
(3) incentive payments;
(4) the costs of single premium annuity plans to provide supplemental benefits.
HISTORY: 1987 Act No. 100, Section 1.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 103 - State Commission On Higher Education › Section 59-103-155. Health care profession education; controlled substances training.

Any public or private institution of higher education in the State from which a student may earn a degree in a health care profession that allows the person to prescribe controlled substances listed in Schedules II, III, and IV in the State shall require for those programs that students complete coursework on the prescription and monitoring of Schedule II, III, and IV controlled substances, including coursework on the prescription of Schedule II controlled substances to treat or manage pain, and strategies that can be employed to recognize signs of and reduce the likelihood of patient addiction. These institutions of higher education shall coordinate with the state's Commission on Higher Education, Board of Medical Examiners, Board of Dentistry, and Board of Nursing to develop the curriculum.
HISTORY: 2018 Act No. 185 (S.302), Section 2, eff May 17, 2018.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 103 - State Commission On Higher Education › Section 59-103-160. English Fluency in Higher Learning Act.

(A) This section may be cited as the English Fluency in Higher Learning Act.
(B) The following words and phrases when used in this section have the meanings given to them unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Instructional faculty" means every member of a public institution of higher learning whose first language is not English, other than visiting faculty but including graduate teaching assistants, who teaches one or more undergraduate credit courses at a campus of that institution within this State except:
(1) courses that are designed to be taught predominately in a foreign language;
(2) student participatory and activity courses such as clinics, studios, and seminars;
(3) special arrangement courses such as individualized instruction and independent study courses; and
(4) continuing education courses.
(C) Each public institution of higher learning shall establish policies to:
(1) ensure that the instructional faculty whose second language is English possess adequate proficiency in both the written and spoken English language. Student and faculty input is required in establishing these policies.
(2) provide students with a grievance procedure regarding an instructor who is not able to write or speak the English language.
(D)(1) Each institution of higher learning must submit its policy or amendments to the Commission on Higher Education within six months from the effective date of this section. Any amendments to the policy must be promptly forwarded to the commission. The commission shall notify the chairmen of the Senate and House Education Committees of those institutions not submitting plans and any amendment to the commission.
(2) Each institution of higher learning must report annually to the Commission on Higher Education and the chairmen of the Senate and House of Representatives Education Committees grievances filed by students under the requirement of subsection (C)(2) and the disposition of those grievances.
HISTORY: 1991 Act No. 27, Section 1.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 103 - State Commission On Higher Education › Section 59-103-162. South Carolina Manufacturing Extension Partnership; review of activities and board membership; budget recommendations.

The South Carolina Commission on Higher Education shall review annually the activities of the South Carolina Manufacturing Extension Partnership, make a budget recommendation to the General Assembly, and coordinate the allocation of funds among each participating institution. The funds appropriated to the University of South Carolina-Columbia for the South Carolina Manufacturing Extension Partnership may not be used for any other purpose. The Commission shall review the membership of the South Carolina Manufacturing Extension Partnership board to insure appropriate representation of each participating institution.
HISTORY: 2002 Act No. 356, Section 1, Part II.C.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 103 - State Commission On Higher Education › Section 59-103-165. Information packages for eighth-grade students regarding higher education; pilot programs.

The Commission on Higher Education is directed to work with the state's public institutions of higher education, and private institutions of higher education which wish to participate, to develop information packages for eighth grade students and their parents on the options of post-secondary education available in South Carolina, the courses required to attend colleges and universities, and the financial requirements and assistance available for students pursuing additional education after high school.
During 1991-92, the commission shall develop the information packages, and to the extent that funds are appropriated by the General Assembly, pilot test the program in a number of school districts. The commission shall report to the Senate Education Committee and the Education and Public Works Committee of the House on the pilot testing.
HISTORY: 1992 Act No. 271, Section 2.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 103 - State Commission On Higher Education › Section 59-103-170. Counseling sessions; Education Options Week.

After pilot testing, the Commission on Higher Education shall work with this state's public institutions of higher education and private higher education institutions wishing to participate, to provide annually for the state's eighth grade students and their parents or guardians small group and one-on-one counseling on required high school courses and post-secondary options, financial requirements, and assistance available for a post-secondary education. These sessions must be held at each of the state's public schools which house an eighth grade class. The counseling may be provided during a week declared to be "Education Options Week" or at another time convenient to the school and the cooperating institution of higher education.
The annual sessions will be phased in over two years and by school year 1993-94 will be in the individual schools in accordance with Sections 59-103-165 through 59-103-190.
HISTORY: 1992 Act No. 271, Section 2.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 103 - State Commission On Higher Education › Section 59-103-180. Participation of State Board of Education, State Department of Education, and public schools and districts.

The State Board of Education, the State Department of Education, and the state's public school districts and schools shall cooperate with the Commission on Higher Education and the institutions of higher education in providing the counseling and shall assist in any manner considered appropriate by them. The schools shall make special efforts to ensure that as many students and parents or guardians as possible are made aware of the opportunity, are urged to attend the sessions, and receive the information.
HISTORY: 1992 Act No. 271, Section 2.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 103 - State Commission On Higher Education › Section 59-103-190. Business and industry requested to participate.

The businesses and industries of this State are requested to provide the opportunity to their employees with children in the eighth grade to attend the counseling sessions and to cooperate with institutions of higher education in presenting at the worksite small group and one-on-one counseling on required high school courses, post-secondary options, financial requirements, and assistance for post-secondary education.
HISTORY: 1992 Act No. 271, Section 2.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 103 - State Commission On Higher Education › Section 59-103-195. Regulation of culinary arts instruction requiring student under 21 to taste alcoholic beverage.

The State Commission on Higher Education shall have review authority in order to determine the legitimacy and appropriateness of the tasting requirements pursuant to Sections 63-19-2440 and 63-19-2450. The commission shall also establish reasonable rules and restrictions through regulation, as appropriate, with regard to any proposed course of instruction in the culinary arts which any private or public institution desires to offer to students under twenty-one years of age in which the tasting of beer, ale, porter, wine, or other similar malt or fermented beverage or alcoholic liquor is required. Unless approved by the commission, no such course and no student under twenty-one years of age enrolled in such course shall qualify for the exceptions provided under Sections 63-19-2440, 63-19-2450, 61-6-4070, or 61-4-90. A course of instruction on bartending or any similar curriculum does not qualify for exception or approval by the commission under this section.
HISTORY: 1999 Act No. 1, Section 6.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 104 - Initiatives For Research And Academic Excellence › Section 59-104-10. Admission standards; adoption of admission policies.

(A) In consultation and coordination with the public institutions of higher learning in this State, the State Commission on Higher Education shall ensure that minimal admissions standards are maintained by the institutions.
The commission, with the institutions, shall monitor the effect of compliance with admissions prerequisites that are effective at the institution.
(B) The boards of trustees of each public institution of higher learning, excluding the State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education, shall adopt admission policies reflecting the desired mix of in-state and out-of-state enrollment appropriate for each institution. Changes in the policies affecting the mix of in-state and out-of-state enrollment must be approved by the board of trustees of the affected institution. The boards shall submit the policies to the commission by July 1, 1989, and any subsequent changes to the policies must be submitted to the commission. These admission policies and standards shall be reviewed by the commission as provided in Section 59-103-45(3). For purposes of this section enrollment must be calculated on a full-time equivalency basis with the equivalent of one full-time student being a student enrolled for thirty credit hours in an academic year. Out-of-state students mean students who are not eligible for in-state rates for tuition and fees under Chapter 112 of Title 59.
HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 629, Section 1; 1996 Act No. 359, Section 10.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 104 - Initiatives For Research And Academic Excellence › Section 59-104-30. Developmental education plans, studies, and programs.

Each public institution of higher learning in this State shall develop a plan for developmental education in accord with provisions, procedures, and requirements developed by the Commission on Higher Education. The commission shall conduct a study as well as evaluations and reviews of developmental education in this State. The commission shall develop appropriate methods of funding developmental education programs and courses.
HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 629, Section 1; 1996 Act No. 359, Section 10.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 104 - Initiatives For Research And Academic Excellence › Section 59-104-40. Technical education system shall convert to semester calendar; limitation on offering of certain courses.

(A) The technical education system in this State shall convert from the quarter calendar to the semester calendar, if funds are appropriated for this purpose. The Commission on Higher Education shall request state appropriations for the conversion to be funded and completed over a two-year period.
(B) The State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education, in consultation with the commission, shall limit the offering of courses designed for college transfer in those technical colleges that do not have approved college transfer programs. The offering of "college parallel" general education courses in institutions not authorized to award the associate in arts or associate in science degree is limited to those necessary to support approved nontransfer programs. The commission, after consultation with the State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education and with public senior colleges and universities, shall establish rules and procedures by which this limitation must be regulated. The commission shall establish procedures concerning courses acceptable for transfer as provided in Section 59-103-45(1).
HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 629, Section 1; 1996 Act No. 359, Section 10.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 104 - Initiatives For Research And Academic Excellence › Section 59-104-210. Competitive grants program established.

A competitive grants program is established to improve undergraduate education in South Carolina. The State Commission on Higher Education shall administer the program, promulgate appropriate regulations, and request annual state appropriations for this purpose. All public and private nonproprietary post-secondary institutions accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools are eligible to participate in this program.
HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 629, Section 1; 1996 Act No. 359, Section 10.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 104 - Initiatives For Research And Academic Excellence › Section 59-104-220. Governor's Professor of the Year Award established.

The Governor's Professor of the Year Award is established as follows:
(1) Each public or private institution of higher learning in this State is eligible to nominate one faculty member for this award who has demonstrated exceptional teaching performance.
(2) The Governor's office in conjunction with the Commission on Higher Education shall establish a committee to choose the Professor of the Year from a senior institution and a Professor of the Year from an institution offering no degree above the associate's degree. The committee must consist of representatives of the Governor's office, the commission, and appropriate civic, business, government, and academic organizations.
(3) Each award must include a citation and a payment of five thousand dollars. Up to ten finalists may be awarded five hundred dollars each by the Commission on Higher Education. The Governor's office shall host an appropriate ceremony at which the awards must be presented.
(4) The commission shall request annual state appropriations for the award.
HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 629, Section 1; 1996 Act No. 359, Section 10; 1996 Act No. 458, Part II, Section 74.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 104 - Initiatives For Research And Academic Excellence › Section 59-104-230. Endowed professorships program.

The Commission on Higher Education shall request state funds and establish procedures to implement a program of endowed professorships at senior public institutions of higher learning to enable the institutions to attract or retain productive faculty scholars who are making or show promise of making substantial contributions to the intellectual life of the State.
Each professorship must be supported by the income from an endowment fund created especially for that purpose. Half of the corpus of each fund must be provided by the commission through this program, and half must be provided by the institution from private funds specifically donated for this purpose.
The State Treasurer shall establish a separate fund consisting of any funds appropriated for all endowed professorships plus accrued interest received. Any amount remaining in the established fund at the end of any fiscal year must be carried forward to the next fiscal year to be used for endowed professorships. Funds in the specified amounts to support each endowment may be transferred by the commission to each eligible institution.
HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 629, Section 1; 1996 Act No. 359, Section 10.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 104 - Initiatives For Research And Academic Excellence › Section 59-104-240. Salary enhancement program for technical colleges and two-year campuses.

(A) The Commission on Higher Education shall request state funds to implement a program to endow salary enhancements for outstanding faculty in technical colleges and two-year campuses of the University of South Carolina. The purpose of the program is to enable the state's two-year college systems to retain and reward outstanding instructional personnel.
(B) The commission, in collaboration with the State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education and the University of South Carolina, shall establish procedures to implement the program. Each salary enhancement must be supported by an endowment fund created especially for that purpose. Half of the corpus of each fund must be provided by the commission through this program, and half must be provided by the institution from private sources specifically donated for this purpose.
(C) The State Treasurer shall establish a separate fund consisting of any funds appropriated for all salary enhancements plus accrued interest received. Any amount remaining in the established fund at the end of any fiscal year must be carried forward to the next fiscal year to be used for salary enhancements. Funds in the specified amounts to support each salary enhancement may be transferred by the commission to each eligible institution.
HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 629, Section 1; 1996 Act No. 359, Section 10.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 104 - Initiatives For Research And Academic Excellence › Section 59-104-250. Technical college libraries shall convert to computer-based automated system compatible with state library systems.

All libraries in the technical colleges in this State shall convert to a computer-based automated system that is compatible with existing state library systems and allows for appropriate networking with public colleges and universities if funds are appropriated for this purpose. The Commission on Higher Education shall request special appropriations to accomplish the conversion.
HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 629, Section 1; 1996 Act No. 359, Section 10.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 104 - Initiatives For Research And Academic Excellence › Section 59-104-260. Commission shall encourage development of joint programs.

The Commission on Higher Education shall encourage the development of joint programs that take advantage of the strengths of the public colleges and universities and discourage the development of independent competitive programs. The programs must be developed through planning and cooperation among the institutions in both academic and nonacademic areas.
HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 629, Section 1; 1996 Act No. 359, Section 10.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 104 - Initiatives For Research And Academic Excellence › Section 59-104-410. Research Investment Fund.

A Research Investment Fund is created to establish or expand research programs in public institutions of higher learning in this State which are related to the continued economic development of South Carolina. The fund must consist of appropriations to the State Commission on Higher Education which it allocates to the institutions for research. The funds must be apportioned among the three senior universities and the four-year colleges in a manner that takes into account the previous year's expenditures of externally generated funds for research by the institutions as reported to the commission. However, the commission may make exceptions to accommodate economic development opportunities in any area of the State.
HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 629, Section 1; 1996 Act No. 359, Section 10.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 104 - Initiatives For Research And Academic Excellence › Section 59-104-420. Criteria for use of fund.

(A) The fund must be used for research which:
(1) has a direct, positive impact on economic development, education, health, or welfare in this State;
(2) has an existing base in faculty expertise, resources, and facilities;
(3) serves to improve the quality of undergraduate and graduate education for South Carolina citizens in accordance with the institutions' stated missions as given in the commission's master plan and as developed by the institution and approved by the commission as provided in Section 59-103-45(5).
(B) The fund must not be used for capital construction projects.
HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 629, Section 1; 1996 Act No. 359, Section 10.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 104 - Initiatives For Research And Academic Excellence › Section 59-104-430. Comprehensive reports to be made at the end of fiscal year.

At the end of each fiscal year, comprehensive reports must be made to the Commission on Higher Education on the expenditures of funds and the results realized from the research programs. At the end of two fiscal years and each fiscal year after that, the commission shall reexamine the process of appropriating funds for research and the results obtained from the expenditures and recommend changes and alterations in the funding of research by the State if the changes are considered advisable by the commission.
HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 629, Section 1; 1996 Act No. 359, Section 10.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 104 - Initiatives For Research And Academic Excellence › Section 59-104-440. Allocation of funds.

(A) With the exception of the University of South Carolina, Clemson University, and the Medical University of South Carolina, institutions seeking financial support from the fund for research projects shall submit proposals to the commission for its review and approval.
(B) The portion of the fund allocated to the three senior universities excepted in subsection (A) must be distributed in a manner that takes into account the previous year's expenditures of externally generated funds for research which each university reported to the commission.
(C) No funds allocated under the provisions of this chapter nor matching funds received pursuant to terms of this chapter may be used to increase an institution's future years' formula funding as computed by the Commission on Higher Education.
HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 629, Section 1; 1996 Act No. 359, Section 10.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 104 - Initiatives For Research And Academic Excellence › Section 59-104-610. Statewide planning system.

The State Commission on Higher Education shall maintain a statewide planning system to address strategic issues in public and private higher education. The system must focus upon the following goals to:
(1) identify future directions for higher education in South Carolina and recommend appropriate methods for meeting the resultant challenges;
(2) review major goals identified by the public and private institutions of higher learning in this State and ascertain their relationship to higher education in South Carolina;
(3) assure the maintenance and continued development of the quality of higher education in South Carolina;
(4) assure the maintenance and continued provision of access to and equality of educational opportunity in higher education in South Carolina;
(5) measure and monitor an institution's standard of achievement in regard to the performance indicators for quality academic success as contained in Section 59-103-30.
HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 629, Section 1; 1996 Act No. 359, Section 10.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 104 - Initiatives For Research And Academic Excellence › Section 59-104-620. Advisory Council on Planning.

(A) The Commission on Higher Education shall establish an Advisory Council on Planning to assist the commission and the institutions of higher learning in maintaining planning as a high priority.
(B) The advisory council shall report to the executive committee of the commission, which shall serve as the standing committee on planning for the commission.
(C) The advisory council shall submit to the executive committee of the commission its advice, reports, and draft plans.
HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 629, Section 1; 1996 Act No. 359, Section 10.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 104 - Initiatives For Research And Academic Excellence › Section 59-104-640. Prospectus for planning; statewide planning document; revisions.

(A) The chief executive officer of the Commission on Higher Education shall develop a prospectus for planning each year.
(B) In the initial year, the Advisory Council on Planning is responsible for developing a statewide planning document for submission to the commission.
(C) After the initial year and annually thereafter, the advisory council shall prepare revisions of the planning document for consideration by the commission. The revisions must conform to, but need not be limited to, the prospectus provided by the commission.
HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 629, Section 1; 1996 Act No. 359, Section 10.