HOUSE EDUCATION COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
HOUSE BILL 23
51st legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2013
AN ACT
RELATING TO HIGHER EDUCATION; AMENDING A SECTION OF CHAPTER 21 NMSA 1978 TO PROVIDE FOR CONDITIONS FOR FACULTY TENURE.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
SECTION 1. Section 21-1-7.3 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1995, Chapter 150, Section 3) is amended to read:
"21-1-7.3. TEMPORARY PROVISIONS--TENURE STUDY.--The boards of regents of all state baccalaureate degree-granting educational institutions [shall] may study the options, advantages and disadvantages of developing a procedure for granting tenure and promotion based [solely] on a faculty member's:
A. teaching ability;
B. scholarship;
C. community-engaged service, research and teaching; or
D. entrepreneurial activity and commercialization activities."
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