Title XIII, Education

The boards created pursuant to KRS 164.131, 164.321, and 164.821 shall be successor boards to those established pursuant to KRS 164.130, 164.320, and 164.820 and shall assure continuance of all legal and contractual rights, functions, duties, and liabilities, including, but not l…

(1) There is hereby created and established a Council on Postsecondary Education in Kentucky as an agency, instrumentality, and political subdivision of the Commonwealth and a public body corporate and politic having all powers, duties, and responsibilities as are provided to it …

Salary -- Term -- Transfer of personnel positions. (1) The Council on Postsecondary Education shall set the qualifications for the position of president of the council. The council may employ a search firm and conduct a nationwide search for candidates. Any search firm employed b…

The Council on Postsecondary Education in Kentucky shall: (1) Develop and implement the strategic agenda. The council shall provide for and direct the planning process and subsequent strategic implementation plans based on the strategic agenda as provided in KRS 164.0203; (2) Rev…

(1) The Council on Postsecondary Education shall adopt a strategic agenda that identifies specific short-term objectives in furtherance of the long-term goals of postsecondary education in the Commonwealth. (2) (a) The purpose of the strategic agenda is to create high-quality, re…

The Council on Postsecondary Education in Kentucky shall promote, support, and assist in the program created in KRS 158.798 by: (1) Identifying college students who have a superior academic aptitude or achievement in math, science, and technology related course work to participat…

pathology and teacher education. A public postsecondary education institution with a degree program in speech-language pathology and a teacher education program, under the direction of the Council on Postsecondary Education, and in consultation with the Education Professional Sta…

administrator. (1) A statewide reading research center shall be established under this section to support educators in implementing reliable, replicable evidence-based reading programs, and to promote literacy development, including cooperating with other entities that provide fa…

The president or chief executive officer of each four (4) year state institution of higher learning, the president of the Kentucky Community and Technical College System, and the president of the Association of Independent Kentucky Colleges and Universities shall serve on an advi…

(1) The student body president of each four (4) year public university, the student member of the board of regents of the Kentucky Community and Technical College System, and one (1) student body president representing the members of the Association of Independent Kentucky Colleg…

(1) The General Assembly recognizes the continuing need for education and research in Kentucky, and that the need is larger than the capacity of the facilities of the state universities to supply. The General Assembly finds that the University of Louisville helps to supply, for t…

participating municipal junior colleges. (1) The Council on Postsecondary Education shall have authority to provide for a program of occupational qualification development in the Commonwealth. The program may be provided for by contract with any recognized and accredited municipa…

There shall be established in the Council on Postsecondary Education an Office of Professional Education Preparation Programs. The office shall have as its principal responsibility the coordination, development, and implementation, through appropriate means, of educational activi…

The Office of Professional Education Preparation Programs shall coordinate, promote and support activities designed to: (1) Identify high school students and other individuals from designated underserved areas of the Commonwealth who have indicated an interest in, and demonstrate…

education preparation programs. The Council on Postsecondary Education shall: (1) Employ a director and sufficient staff to administer the professional education preparation programs; (2) Formulate guidelines and policies governing program activities and fund expenditures; (3) Al…

Every institution of higher education in the Commonwealth of Kentucky offering professional education programs in the areas of medicine and dentistry shall establish and publish the criteria by which applicants for admission are evaluated and the approximate weight of each criter…

costs, student loan debt, graduation rates, and student and graduate employment -- Administrative regulations. (1) In order to help prospective students make more informed decisions about their futures and ensure that they are adequately aware of the cost of college and other car…

The Area Health Education System in the Council on Postsecondary Education is hereby recognized.

institutions. The governing board of each of the state postsecondary educational institutions shall make such changes or adjustments in the curricula and such rules and regulations affecting their schools as are necessary to carry out and put into effect the rulings of the Counci…

The Council on Postsecondary Education, in consultation with the Office of Adult Education and the statewide reading research center established under KRS 164.0207, shall assess the need for technical assistance, training, and other support to assist in the development of adult e…

colleges of education -- Service by deans of colleges of education. (1) The Council for Educational Research is hereby established. (2) At least once each year, the council shall advise the Board of the Kentucky Center for Statistics and the Office of the Kentucky Center for Stat…

The Council on Postsecondary Education may identify academic programs offered at institutions to which the criteria for a standardized degree program shall be applied. (1) If the council determines that a particular degree program offered by any state postsecondary institution sh…

fund -- Administration by Council on Postsecondary Education -- Application process. (1) (a) There is hereby created an endowment fund as defined in KRS 273.600 called the endowed research fund to be administered by the council for the purposes of funding the work of research con…

For the purposes of KRS 164.0401 to 164.0407: (1) "Council" means the Council on Postsecondary Education; (2) "Dedicated funds" means a gift, grant, or donation to the fund that is subject to restrictions imposed by a private grantor under KRS 164.0401 to 164.0407; (3) "Eligible …

Administrative regulations. (1) It is the intent of the General Assembly to address Kentucky's persistent shortage of a broad spectrum of certified and licensed healthcare professionals, including nurses, mental health professionals, and emergency medical services professionals, …

Partnership contract -- Scholarship contract -- Restrictions -- Recoupment -- Prohibitions. (1) The council shall reserve at least sixty-five percent (65%) of all net moneys in the Kentucky healthcare workforce investment fund for partnership proposals between healthcare programs…

application process and requirements. (1) The council shall reserve up to thirty-five percent (35%) of all net moneys in the Kentucky healthcare workforce investment fund for healthcare program incentives to reward performance and excellence among eligible healthcare programs. An…

Education. (1) The council shall submit a written report to the Interim Joint Committee on Education, the Interim Joint Committee on Health Services, and the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue Budget Review Subcommittee on Education no later than December 1 of …

education institutions. Each public postsecondary education institution shall review the cost of its healthcare programs, as defined in KRS 164.0401, in relation to the realistic earning potential and employability of the institution's graduates and submit a written report to the…

KRS 164.0401 to 164.0407 shall expire on and have no force or effect after June 30, 2030, unless extended by an act of the General Assembly.

(1) There is hereby created in the State Treasury a cancer research matching fund designated as the "cancer research institutions matching fund." The fund shall be administered by the Council for Postsecondary Education. For tax periods beginning on or after June 1, 2005, the one…

The members of the Council on Postsecondary Education shall receive one hundred dollars ($100) per day for each council meeting attended and shall be reimbursed for their necessary traveling and other expenses while attending the meetings of the council, except a member who resid…

The council shall meet at least four (4) times each year at such times as it determines by resolution. Special meetings may be called by the chairman. Upon request of three (3) institutions represented on the council, the chairman shall call a special meeting.

The council shall meet in the office of the president or such other place as it designates.

Notice of each meeting shall be given by the chairman at least ten (10) days prior to the time of the meeting, unless all members of the council waive notice.

A majority of the voting members of the council constitutes a quorum for the transaction of business, but no business shall be transacted and no proposition carried unless a majority of the voting members votes for it.

system -- Legislative findings and declarations -- Separate funding formulas for public university sector and KCTCS sector -- Distribution of funds -- Annual certification of funding distribution amounts -- Postsecondary education working group -- Administrative regulations -- Po…

report. (1) As used in this section, unless the context requires otherwise: (a) "Disability" means hard of hearing, including deafness; speech or language impairment; visual impairment, including blindness; orthopedic impairment; other health impairment that substantially limits …

(1) (a) No later than June 30 of each year, the president or chief executive officer of each state institution or independent institution that is licensed or overseen by the Council on Postsecondary Education, and the chair of the governing board of each institution, shall jointl…

education or model program. No postsecondary education institution shall receive funds from the Council on Postsecondary Education from any trust fund for the purposes of teacher education or model programs of teaching and learning unless the Education Professional Standards Boar…

placement, dual enrollment, and dual credit programs. (1) The Council on Postsecondary Education shall promulgate administrative regulations that require public postsecondary educational institutions to grant credit toward graduation to a student who scores at least "3" on a Coll…

Requirements. (1) As used in this section: (a) "Council" means the Council on Postsecondary Education; and (b) "Department" means the Kentucky Department of Education. (2) There is hereby established a proactive postsecondary admissions program to: (a) Notify high school students…

The University of Kentucky located at Lexington, is recognized as established and maintained. It is the institution that was founded under the land grant of 1862 by the Congress of the United States under the corporate designation and title of "Agricultural and Mechanical College…

continue in force and apply to University of Kentucky. All acts of the General Assembly giving assent to Acts of Congress providing aid for agricultural and mechanical colleges and for agricultural extension and experiment work, shall, unless heretofore repealed, remain in force …

The University of Kentucky includes the following colleges and schools: The College of Arts and Science, The College of Agriculture, The College of Engineering, The College of Law, The College of Education, The College of Commerce, and The Graduate School. The colleges, schools, …

(1) The University of Kentucky shall provide: (a) Upon approval of the Council on Postsecondary Education, associate and baccalaureate programs of instruction; (b) Upon approval of the Council on Postsecondary Education, master degree programs, specialist degree programs above th…