Section 21-1-26.7 - Annual accountability reportA. The higher education department shall submit an annual accountability report to the governor and to the legislature by December 31. Prior to publication, the department shall distribute a draft of the accountability report to all public post-secondary educational institutions and shall allow comment upon the draft report.B. The department in consultation with each public post-secondary educational institution shall develop and adopt the content and a format for the report, including the following information: (1) student progress and success disaggregated by gender and by ethnicity and race as follows:(a) Caucasian, non-Hispanic;(d) American Indian or Alaska Native;(e) Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander;(g) two or more races; and(h) other; provided that if the sample of students in any category enumerated in Subparagraphs (a) through (g) of this paragraph is so small that a student in the sample may be personally identifiable in violation of the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, the report may combine that sample into the "other" category;(2) student access and diversity;(3) affordability and cost of educational services;(4) public and community service by the institution; and(5) faculty, compensation and benefits practices, including: (a) number and percentage of part-time and full-time faculty;(b) per-credit-hour pay rate for full-time instructors or lecturers and per-credit-hour pay rate for part-time faculty;(c) percent salary increase for full-time faculty and percent salary increase for part-time faculty; and(d) description of the institution's policy for offering benefits to full-time faculty and to part-time faculty.C. The department shall make no funding recommendation, capital outlay recommendation, distribution or certification on behalf of any public post-secondary educational institution that has not submitted the information required pursuant to this section.1978 Comp., § 21-1-26.6, enacted by Laws 1990 (1st S.S.), ch. 4, § 2; 1999, ch. 173, § 2; 2005, ch. 289, § 19; 2007, ch. 150, § 1; 2013, ch. 196, § 1.Amended by 2013, c. 196,s. 1, eff. 6/14/2013.