Texas Administrative Code › Title 19 - EDUCATION › Part 1 - TEXAS HIGHER EDUCATION COORDINATING BOARD › Chapter 9 - PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT IN PUBLIC TWO-YEAR COLLEGES › Subchapter N - BACCALAUREATE DEGREE PROGRAMS › Section 9.677 - Funding

Current through Reg. 49, No. 28; July 12, 2024
(a) Except as
				  provided by subsection (b) of this section, a degree program created under this
				  subchapter may be funded solely by a public junior college's proportionate
				  share of state appropriations under §130.003, local funds, and private
				  sources.
(b) This subchapter does
				  not require the legislature to appropriate state funds to support a degree
				  program created under this subchapter. Nor does this subsection prohibit the
				  legislature from directly appropriating state funds to support junior-level and
				  senior-level courses to which this subsection applies.
(c) The coordinating board shall weigh
				  contact hours attributable to students enrolled in a junior-level or
				  senior-level course offered under this subchapter used to determine a public
				  junior college's proportionate share of state appropriations under Section
				  130.003 in the same manner as a lower division course in a corresponding field
				  unless the college participated in a pilot project to offer baccalaureate
				  degree programs as defined in § 9.672(10) of this subchapter.
(d) Notwithstanding subsection (c) of this
				  section, in its recommendations to the legislature relating to state funding
				  for public junior colleges, the coordinating board shall recommend that a
				  public junior college that participated in a pilot project to offer
				  baccalaureate degree programs as defined in § 9.672(10) of this subchapter
				  receive substantially the same state support for junior-level and senior-level
				  courses in the fields of applied science, applied technology, dental hygiene,
				  and nursing offered under this subchapter as that provided to a general
				  academic teaching institution for substantially similar courses.
(e) In determining the contact hours
				  attributable to students enrolled in a junior-level or senior-level course in
				  the field of applied science, applied technology, dental hygiene, or nursing
				  offered under this section used to determine a public junior college's
				  proportionate share of state appropriations under §130.003, the
				  coordinating board shall weigh those contact hours as necessary to provide the
				  junior college the appropriate level of state support to the extent state funds
				  for those courses are included in the appropriations.
(f) A public junior college may not charge a
				  student enrolled in a baccalaureate degree program offered under this
				  subchapter tuition and fees in an amount that exceeds the amount of tuition and
				  fees charged by the junior college to a similarly situated student who is
				  enrolled in an associate degree program in a corresponding field. This
				  subsection does not apply to tuition and fees charged for a baccalaureate
				  degree program in the field of applied science or applied technology previously
				  offered as part of a pilot project to offer baccalaureate degree programs as
				  defined in § 9.672(10) of this subchapter.