Agency: State Board of Regents

Line Item: Student Support

Function

The Student Support line item provides programmatic support for students with special needs, concurrent enrollment, and transfer students. Student support funding also maintains the Campus Compact Initiative.

Funding Detail

Program: Prison Recidivism

Function

H. B. 100, "Department of Corrections - Tracking and Reimbursement of Individual Prisoner Costs", passed during the 2009 General Session, provides that the State Board of Education, the State Board of Regents, and the Department of Corrections are jointly responsible for the education of inmates in state custody. Funding from the Prison Telephone Surcharge was moved to the Deparment of Corrections and ongoing state funding appropriated to the State Board of Regents is transferred to the Prison Telephone Surcharge Account for expenses incurred in by the Department in educating inmates.

Statutory Authority

The following laws govern Prison Recidivism:

• UCA 53A-1-403.5 establishes the State Board of Regents as a partner with the State Board of Education and the Department of Corrections in providing for the education of prisoners housed by the Department of Corrections based on Legislative Appropriations.
• UCA 64-13-30.7 requires ongoing funding appropriated to the State Board of Regents to be transferred to the Telephone Surcharge Account for educational purposes.

Funding Detail

Program: Services for Hearing Impaired Students

Function

To accommodate students with hearing impairments, the Legislature approved funding of $1 million in 2008. This funding reimburses institutions for expenses incurres for interpreters and note takers. Funding is available to USHE institutions as well as UCAT campuses.

Funding Detail

Program: Concurrent Enrollment

Function

The 2009 Legislature approved the reorganization of the State Board of Regents' line item, resulting in part with the creation of a new Concurrent Enrollment program. This purpose of this new program is to provide programmatic support in coordinating concurrent enrollment efforts between public education and higher education.

Funding Detail

Program: Articulation Support

Function

The 2009 Legislature approved the reorganization of the State Board of Regents' line item, resulting in part with the creation of a new Articulation Support program. This purpose of this new program is to provide the resources to help students transition for public education to higher education and for students moving from one USHE institution to another.

Funding Detail

Program: Campus Compact

Function

Beginning in FY 2005, the Legislature appropriated funds for the institutions of higher education to become members of the Campus Compact. The Utah Campus Compact is a coalition of college and university presidents and their campuses committed to foster in students the values and skills of citizenship through active involvement in academically based and co-curricular civic and community service. Campus Compact also offers professional development for faculty, staff, and students as each of its 13 campuses engaged in service-learning (as a part of an academic course) and/or community service/volunteerism offered through a campus. It also provides grant funding and scholarships. Members include all of the nine institutions in the USHE, the Utah College of Applied Technology, Brigham Young University, LDS Business College and Westminster College. During 2008-09, the Campus Compact provided for the following: