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Neb. Rev. Stat. § 85-302 Board of trustees; officers; body corporate; audit.
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The members of the Board of Trustees of the Nebraska State Colleges shall annually elect a president and vice president from among their own number. The board shall constitute a body corporate to be known as the Board of Trustees of the Nebraska State Colleges, and as such may su…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 85-304 Board of trustees; powers and duties, enumerated.
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(1) The Board of Trustees of the Nebraska State Colleges shall have the power: (a) To appoint a president and such other persons as may be required for each state college; (b) To fix their compensation and prescribe their duties; (c) To remove all persons appointed, but the affir…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 85-304.01 Nebraska State Colleges; new capital construction; appropriation; percentage used for works of art; when.
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After January 1, 1979, at least one percent of any appropriation for the original construction of any public building under the supervision of the Board of Trustees of the Nebraska State Colleges shall be spent for the acquisition of works of art. The works of art may be an integ…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 85-304.02 Board of trustees; works of art; duties.
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The Board of Trustees of the Nebraska State Colleges, in consultation with the Nebraska Arts Council, shall determine the amount of money to be made available for the purchases of art for each project under its supervision. The selection of, commissioning of artists for, reviewin…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 85-304.03 Board of trustees; insure compliance with sections; manner.
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The Board of Trustees of the Nebraska State Colleges shall inform the Director of Administrative Services that sections 82-317 to 82-329 and 85-304 to 85-304.03 have been complied with for projects under its supervision before a warrant may be issued for payment.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 85-305 Board of trustees; meetings.
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The Board of Trustees of the Nebraska State Colleges shall hold regular meetings and such special meetings as may be found necessary.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 85-306 State colleges; president; duties.
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The president of each state college shall be the chief executive officer thereof and shall be responsible to the Board of Trustees of the Nebraska State Colleges for the control and management of the same. All faculty and other employees of each state college shall be under the d…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 85-307 State colleges; president; collection of fees.
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The president of each state college shall receive and collect fees for board and room and such other fees as may be payable to such state college and shall disburse the same under direction of the Board of Trustees of the Nebraska State Colleges and according to law.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 85-308 State colleges; purpose; courses.
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The purpose of the state colleges is the training and instruction of persons in the arts of teaching and managing schools, the principles and practice of the various branches of learning taught in our public schools, and the arts and sciences generally. The Board of Trustees of t…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 85-308.01 State colleges; degree of bachelor of arts or bachelor of science; confer.
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The Board of Trustees of the Nebraska State Colleges shall have power to confer, upon completion of a four-year course in liberal arts prescribed by such board, a degree of bachelor of arts or bachelor of science.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 85-309 Board of trustees; memorandum of understanding with State Board of Education; policy to share student data.
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The Board of Trustees of the Nebraska State Colleges shall enter into a memorandum of understanding on or before September 1, 2010, with the State Board of Education to adopt a policy to share student data. At a minimum, the policy shall ensure that the exchange of information is…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 85-310 State colleges; students; admission.
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The board shall make such rules and regulations for the admission of students to the state colleges as may seem to be best for the interest of the state colleges and not inconsistent with the purpose for which they have been established.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 85-3101 Act, how cited.
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Sections 85-3101 to 85-3115 shall be known and may be cited as the Excellence in Teaching Act and shall include the Attracting Excellence to Teaching Program, the Enhancing Excellence in Teaching Program, and the Career-Readiness and Dual-Credit Education Grant Program.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 85-3102 Transfer of powers, duties, and functions to Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education; financial obligations; contracts; documents; funds; appropriations; suit, action, or other proceeding; records; transfer; effect.
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(1) On and after July 1, 2024, all powers, duties, and functions that the State Department of Education had pursuant to the Excellence in Teaching Act prior to such date are transferred to the Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education. (2) Any financial obligations of t…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 85-3103 Attracting Excellence to Teaching Program; created; terms, defined.
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The Attracting Excellence to Teaching Program is created. For purposes of the Attracting Excellence to Teaching Program: (1) Commission means the Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education; (2) Eligible institution means a not-for-profit college or university which (a) i…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 85-3104 Attracting Excellence to Teaching Program; purposes.
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The purposes of the Attracting Excellence to Teaching Program are to: (1) Attract outstanding students to major in shortage areas at the teacher education programs of Nebraska's postsecondary educational institutions; (2) Retain resident students and graduates as teachers in the …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 85-3105 Attracting Excellence to Teaching Program; administration; eligible students.
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(1) The commission shall administer the Attracting Excellence to Teaching Program either directly or by contracting with public or private entities. (2) To be eligible for the program, an eligible student shall: (a) Graduate in the top quarter of his or her high school class or h…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 85-3106 Attracting Excellence to Teaching Program; eligible student; contract requirements; loan payments; suspension; loan forgiveness; amount.
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(1)(a) Prior to receiving any money from a loan pursuant to the Attracting Excellence to Teaching Program, an eligible student shall enter into a contract with the commission. Such contract shall be exempt from the requirements of the State Procurement Act. (b) For eligible stude…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 85-3107 Enhancing Excellence in Teaching Program; created; terms, defined.
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The Enhancing Excellence in Teaching Program is created. For purposes of the Enhancing Excellence in Teaching Program: (1) Approval to teach postsecondary courses by a Nebraska postsecondary educational institution means official documentation issued by a Nebraska postsecondary e…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 85-3108 Enhancing Excellence in Teaching Program; purposes.
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The purposes of the Enhancing Excellence in Teaching Program are to: (1) Retain teachers in the accredited school districts, educational service units, and private schools or approved private schools of Nebraska; (2) Improve the skills of existing teachers in Nebraska through the…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 85-3109 Enhancing Excellence in Teaching Program; administration; eligible student; loans.
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(1) The commission shall administer the Enhancing Excellence in Teaching Program either directly or by contracting with public or private entities. (2) To be eligible for the program, an eligible student shall: (a) Agree to complete an eligible graduate program at an eligible ins…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 85-3110 Enhancing Excellence in Teaching Program; contract requirements; loan payments; suspension; loan forgiveness; amount.
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(1) Prior to receiving any money from a loan pursuant to the Enhancing Excellence in Teaching Program, an eligible student shall enter into a contract with the commission. Such contract shall be exempt from the requirements of the State Procurement Act. The contract shall require…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 85-3111 Career-Readiness and Dual-Credit Education Grant Program; established; Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education; State Department of Education; duties; commission; rules and regulations.
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(1) The Career-Readiness and Dual-Credit Education Grant Program is established. The program shall be administered by the Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education. The commission, in consultation with the State Department of Education, the Department of Labor, and any …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 85-3112 Excellence in Teaching Cash Fund; created; use; investment.
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(1) The Excellence in Teaching Cash Fund is created. The fund shall consist of transfers by the Legislature, transfers pursuant to section 79-3501, and loan repayments, penalties, and interest payments received in the course of administering the Attracting Excellence to Teaching …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 85-3113 Repayment tracking.
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The commission has the administrative responsibility to track borrowers and to develop repayment tracking and collection mechanisms for the Attracting Excellence to Teaching Program and the Enhancing Excellence in Teaching Program. The commission may contract for such services. W…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 85-3114 Attracting Excellence to Teaching Program; Enhancing Excellence in Teaching Program; reports.
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(1) Each eligible institution shall file an annual report with the commission for the Attracting Excellence to Teaching Program and the Enhancing Excellence in Teaching Program for any fiscal year in which the eligible institution receives funding to distribute to students pursua…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 85-3115 Teacher shortage area; Excellence in Teaching Act; rules and regulations.
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The State Board of Education may adopt and promulgate rules and regulations to determine teacher shortage areas. The commission may adopt and promulgate rules and regulations to carry out the Excellence in Teaching Act.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 85-314 Board of trustees; rules and regulations.
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The board shall adopt all needful rules and regulations for the careful preservation of the buildings, furniture, apparatus, grounds, timber, shrubbery, and other property belonging to the state college.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 85-315 Board of trustees; utilities service; sale or lease.
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The board of trustees is hereby empowered and authorized to make such contract of sale or lease of the whole or part of any water, light or heat plant now or hereafter constructed at any state college, and the purchase of water, heat and light, with any city, village or corporati…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 85-316 State colleges; funds; contingencies; disbursements; travel expense.
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All funds appropriated for the use and benefit of the state colleges together with the income arising from the lease and sale of endowment lands belonging to such colleges shall be under the direction and control of the board of trustees, subject to the provisions contained in th…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 85-317 State colleges; endowment fund; source; investment.
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All the lands remaining unsold of the twenty sections appropriated as an endowment fund for the state colleges and all the endowment fund derived from the sale of such lands are hereby confirmed as such endowment, to be forever used for this purpose. All such money derived from f…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 85-317.01 State colleges; endowments and gifts; acceptance.
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The Board of Trustees of the Nebraska State Colleges is authorized to receive, upon behalf of any of such state colleges and upon such terms and conditions as may be imposed, such gifts and endowments as the board may decide to accept. Such board shall be trustees of any such gif…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 85-318 State colleges; dormitory funds; use.
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All money received for the use of rooms in the dormitories of any of the state colleges, shall be expended by the board in repairs of such dormitory and the furniture of the same, whenever such repairs are needed.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 85-319 Eminent domain; powers of board of trustees; procedure.
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The Board of Trustees of the Nebraska State Colleges is hereby given power and authority to acquire by condemnation lands necessary for state colleges. The procedure to condemn such property shall be exercised in the manner set forth in Chapter 76, article 7.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 85-320 State colleges; retirement plan; establishment; terms; investment of funds.
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The Board of Trustees of the Nebraska State Colleges shall have power, in its discretion, to provide retirement benefits for present and future employees of the board, subject to the following: (1) The cost of such retirement benefits shall be funded in accordance with sound actu…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 85-3201 Act, how cited.
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Sections 85-3201 to 85-3211 shall be known and may be cited as the Door to College Scholarship Act.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 85-3202 Terms, defined.
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For purposes of the Door to College Scholarship Act: (1) Award means a grant of money under the act by the commission in the form of a Door to College Scholarship to an eligible student for educational expenses; (2) Award year means the period beginning on July 1 through the foll…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 85-3203 Awards to eligible students.
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The commission shall, as provided in the Door to College Scholarship Act, provide for awards to be made directly to eligible students beginning with the 2024-25 school year. An award shall not exceed a maximum of five thousand dollars annually to an eligible student with a full-t…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 85-3204 Eligible postsecondary educational institutions; duties; awards; prohibited acts.
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(1) Eligible postsecondary educational institutions, acting as agents of the commission, shall: (a) Receive and process applications for awards under the Door to College Scholarship Act; (b) Determine eligibility of students based on criteria set forth in the act, except that suc…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 85-3205 Awards; review; distribute to eligible postsecondary educational institutions.
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(1) Within thirty days after receiving recommendations pursuant to section 85-3204, the commission shall review the recommended awards for compliance with the Door to College Scholarship Act and any rules and regulations adopted and promulgated pursuant to the act and notify each…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 85-3206 Award; conditions.
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An award may be granted to an eligible student for attendance at an eligible postsecondary educational institution if: (1) The eligible student is accepted for enrollment as follows: (a) In the case of an eligible student beginning the first year in attendance at an eligible post…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 85-3207 Award; recipient; requirements; termination.
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(1) A recipient of an award shall: (a) Attend all required courses regularly; (b) Meet with an assigned advisor at regular intervals to discuss academic progress and to develop a job-search plan; and (c) Maintain good academic standing at the eligible postsecondary educational in…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 85-3208 Award recipient; discontinue attendance; award termination; remit award balance.
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If an award recipient discontinues attendance before the end of the award year or the award is terminated pursuant to section 85-3207, the award recipient shall remit any award balance allowable to the eligible postsecondary educational institution in accordance with such institu…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 85-3209 Commission; powers and duties.
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(1) The commission shall: (a) Supervise the issuance of public information concerning the Door to College Scholarship Act; and (b) Establish a reasonable and fair appeal procedure for students adversely affected by the actions of the commission or an eligible postsecondary educat…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 85-3210 Act; limitations.
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The Door to College Scholarship Act does not grant any authority to the commission to: (1) Control or influence the policies of any eligible postsecondary educational institution because such institution accepts students who receive awards; or (2) Require any eligible postseconda…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 85-3211 Door to College Scholarship Fund; created; use; investment.
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The Door to College Scholarship Fund is created. The commission shall administer the fund, which shall consist of amounts transferred from the State Lottery Operation Trust Fund pursuant to section 79-3501 prior to July 1, 2029, as well as any money transferred by the Legislature…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 85-322 State College Buildings Renovation and Land Acquisition Fund; created; authorized uses.
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(1) There is hereby created a State College Buildings Renovation and Land Acquisition Fund. All money accruing to this fund is hereby appropriated to the Board of Trustees of the Nebraska State Colleges and shall be used exclusively for those projects of repair, remodeling, and r…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 85-323 Building renovation and land acquisition projects; board of trustees; powers.
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(1) In order to accomplish any projects authorized by section 85-322, the Board of Trustees of the Nebraska State Colleges may enter into contracts with any person, firm, or corporation providing for the implementation of any such project of the state colleges and providing for t…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 85-324 State College Facilities Improvement Fund; created; authorized uses.
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There is hereby created the State College Facilities Improvement Fund. All money accruing to the fund is hereby appropriated to the Board of Trustees of the Nebraska State Colleges and shall be used exclusively for those construction projects of the state colleges authorized purs…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 85-325 Construction projects; board of trustees; powers.
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In order to accomplish any projects authorized by section 85-324, the Board of Trustees of the Nebraska State Colleges may enter into contracts with any person, firm, or corporation providing for the implementation of any such project of the state colleges and providing for the l…