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Higher-education subcommittee moves several bills forward, from regulatory tweaks to coach training
Summary
The subcommittee recommended multiple higher-education bills for reporting, including renaming a CHEVE post, exempting short noncredit courses from certain regulation, adding faculty and staff to boards of visitors, and requiring mental-health training for coaches.
The Senate Education and Health Higher Education Subcommittee on Monday recommended a package of higher-education measures for reporting to the full committee, moving bills on regulatory changes, board representation, student services and mental-health training forward.
Among the items the panel moved: a technical change to rename the head of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (CHEVE) from "director" to "executive director" (House Bill 18,78); an exemption for short nondegree project-management courses from certain CHEVE regulatory requirements (House Bill 19,95); a bill to require public colleges and universities to add a faculty member and a staff member chosen by peers as nonvoting members of boards of visitors (House Bill 16,21); and a mandate that…
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