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F I S C A L I M P A C T R E P O R T

SPONSOR Ortiz y Pino

ORIGINAL DATE

LAST UPDATED

02/17/07

HB

SHORT TITLE College Health Faculty Racial Disparity

SB 999

ANALYST Williams

APPROPRIATION (dollars in thousands)

Appropriation

Recurring

or Non-Rec

Fund

Affected

FY07

FY08

$25.0

Recurring

General Fund

(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)

SOURCES OF INFORMATION

LFC Files

Responses Received From

Higher Education Department (HED)

SUMMARY

Synopsis of Bill

Senate Bill 999 appropriates $25 thousand from the general fund to the board of regents of the

University of New Mexico (UNM) for the Office of Diversity in the School of Medicine. The

study would address the status of tenure-track Hispano or Latino faculty and professionals

interested in medicine, identify fiscal and other barriers to increasing recruitment, retention and

tenure of minority faculty in health sciences and identify best practices.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS

The appropriation of $25.0 thousand contained in this bill is a recurring expense to the general

fund. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2008 shall

revert to the general fund.

SIGNIFICANT ISSUES

HED notes: The mission of the Office of Diversity is to promote the medical education and

career development of students and faculty from underrepresented and/or disadvantaged

populations in New Mexico and to serve as the liaison between the School of Medicine and

communities.

Senate Bill 999 – Page

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PERFORMANCE IMPLICATIONS

UNM HSC does not report faculty and staff diversity data separate from that reported for the

university as a whole in the annual Council of University Presidents Performance Effectiveness

Report.

OTHER SUBSTANTIVE ISSUES

HED notes about 50 percent of students enrolled in the School of Medicine, College of Nursing

and College of Pharmacy at UNM are ethnic minorities. Further, among United States medical

schools, UNM has the largest percentage of Latinos enrolled over the last ten years.

The request was not submitted by UNM in the HED budgeting request cycle for FY08.

POSSIBLE QUESTIONS

1.

What data is available on the diversity of the UNM Health Sciences Center faculty.

2.

How does that compare to the diversity of student enrollment.

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