Post by Logan on Apr 26, 2016 1:18:35 GMT -6
Legislators plan bills to overhaul Nevada higher ed system following email revelations
Two Democratic legislators announced plans Monday to introduce bills that would overhaul the Nevada System of Higher Education in light of emails that show the system worked to undermine the Legislature’s effort to fix higher education funding in the state.
Assemblyman Elliot Anderson, D-Las Vegas, and State Senator Joyce Woodhouse, D-Henderson, have their sights set on following: Curtailing the independence the system believes the state’s constitution entitles it to, boosting the Board of Regents’ resources so those electeds can act as better watchdogs, taking away the chancellor’s ability to hire and fire presidents, expanding whistleblower protections, creating regional advisory committees, requiring presidents to present the budgets of their institutions to both the regents and the Legislature and bringing the system under the Spending and Government Efficiency Commission.
The list of reforms follows a Review-Journal story that sparked bi-partisan outrage.
The newspaper reported earlier this month that hundreds of emails reviewed by the paper from November 2011 and September 2012 showed the system worked to control an interim legislative committee’s effort to redo the state’s funding formula, which had long been criticized as unfair and nearly impossible to understand.
Read more: www.reviewjournal.com/news/education/legislators-plan-bills-overhaul-nevada-higher-ed-system-following-email-revelations
Two Democratic legislators announced plans Monday to introduce bills that would overhaul the Nevada System of Higher Education in light of emails that show the system worked to undermine the Legislature’s effort to fix higher education funding in the state.
Assemblyman Elliot Anderson, D-Las Vegas, and State Senator Joyce Woodhouse, D-Henderson, have their sights set on following: Curtailing the independence the system believes the state’s constitution entitles it to, boosting the Board of Regents’ resources so those electeds can act as better watchdogs, taking away the chancellor’s ability to hire and fire presidents, expanding whistleblower protections, creating regional advisory committees, requiring presidents to present the budgets of their institutions to both the regents and the Legislature and bringing the system under the Spending and Government Efficiency Commission.
The list of reforms follows a Review-Journal story that sparked bi-partisan outrage.
The newspaper reported earlier this month that hundreds of emails reviewed by the paper from November 2011 and September 2012 showed the system worked to control an interim legislative committee’s effort to redo the state’s funding formula, which had long been criticized as unfair and nearly impossible to understand.
Read more: www.reviewjournal.com/news/education/legislators-plan-bills-overhaul-nevada-higher-ed-system-following-email-revelations