As used in this part 3, unless the context
otherwise requires:
(1) Applicable fiscal year or applicable state fiscal year means the state
fiscal year that commences July 1 after the conclusion of the regular legislative
session. For example, during the 2015 regular legislative session, the applicable
fiscal year means the 2015-16 fiscal year.
(2) Area technical college has the same meaning as provided in section 23-60-103 (1).
(3) Commission means the Colorado commission on higher education
established pursuant to section 23-1-102.
(4) Credential completion means the calculation of student credential
completion by a governing board based on equal weighting of the total resident
student completions of postsecondary credentials in a given state fiscal year. The
credential completion calculation includes:
(a) Only credentials recognized by the department and determined by
commission policy for purposes of this subsection (4); and
(b) Equal weighting for a resident student who transfers out of an institution
with a community college role and mission specified in statute, after accumulating
at least eighteen credit hours at the institution in a two-year degree program.
(5) Department means the Colorado department of higher education
established pursuant to section 24-1-114.
(6) Local district college means a local district college operating pursuant
to article 71 of this title 23.
(7) Master plan means the master plan created pursuant to section 23-1-108.
(8) One-hundred-fifty-percent-of-time graduation rate means, for a four-year institution, the percentage of first-time, full-time, degree-seeking
undergraduate students starting in the fall term and graduating within six years
with a bachelor's degree from the same institution, and, for a two-year institution,
the percentage of first-time, full-time, associate degree-seeking or undergraduate
certificate-seeking students starting in the fall term and completing their declared
program within one hundred fifty percent of the normal time to completion, as
reported to the integrated postsecondary education data system maintained by the
federal department of education. If the integrated postsecondary education data
system does not include data for an institution or governing board for prior state
fiscal years, the department shall use its available data, as reported by the
governing board to the department through the student-unit record database, in
place of the missing integrated postsecondary education data system data. The
department shall ensure that the governing boards collect and report the data in a
consistent manner. A student may be counted only once in a state fiscal year for
purposes of this performance funding metric.
(9) One-hundred-percent-of-time graduation rate means, for a four-year
institution, the percentage of first-time, full-time, degree-seeking undergraduate
students starting in the fall term and graduating within four years with a bachelor's
degree from the same institution, and, for a two-year institution, the percentage of
first-time, full-time, associate degree-seeking or undergraduate certificate-seeking
students starting in the fall term and completing their declared program within one
hundred percent of the normal time to completion, as reported to the integrated
postsecondary education data system maintained by the federal department of
education. If the integrated postsecondary education data system does not include
data for an institution or governing board for prior state fiscal years, the
department shall use its available data, as reported by the governing board to the
department through the student-unit record database, in place of the missing
integrated postsecondary education data system data. The department shall
ensure that the governing boards collect and report the data in a consistent
manner. A student may be counted only once in a state fiscal year for purposes of
this performance funding metric.
(10) Pell-eligible student means an undergraduate student who qualifies
for the federal Pell grant or for a grant through a successor program.
(11) Preceding fiscal year or preceding state fiscal year means the state
fiscal year that ends immediately before the applicable fiscal year. For example,
during the 2015 regular legislative session, the preceding fiscal year means the
2014-15 fiscal year.
(12) (a) Resident first-generation undergraduate student means a resident
student who, until the age of eighteen, primarily resided with a single parent who
does not, or with parents or guardians both of whom do not, possess a bachelor's
degree, based on institutional reporting data described in subsection (12)(b) of this
section.
(b) Each governing board shall collect and report to the department resident
first-generation undergraduate student data based on student reporting as to
primary residence until the age of eighteen and the educational attainment of the
student's parents or guardians. Data collected must be reported in compliance with
this subsection (12) not later than the census student data for the fall 2020 term
and for each fall term thereafter. The department shall ensure that the governing
boards collect and report the data in a consistent manner.
(13) Resident first-generation undergraduate student population share
means the resident first-generation undergraduate student head count as a
percentage of the overall resident student population head count from the fall
enrollment census collected by the department.
(14) Resident Pell-eligible student population share means the resident
Pell-eligible student head count as a percentage of the overall resident student
population head count from the end-of-term fall enrollment collected by the
department.
(15) Resident student full-time equivalent enrollment means the final state
fiscal year count of resident undergraduate and graduate full-time equivalent
students enrolled at a state institution of higher education, not including resident
graduate students at the university of Colorado Anschutz medical campus and
graduate students at the Colorado state university veterinary medicine campus.
(16) Resident underrepresented minority student population share means
the total resident student head count of underrepresented minority students, as
defined by the department, as a percentage of the overall resident student
population head count from the end-of-term fall enrollment collected by the
department.
(17) Retention rate means, for a four-year institution, the percentage of
first-time, full-time undergraduate students starting in the fall term and returning
for their second fall term at the same institution, and, for a two-year institution, the
percentage of first-time, full-time associate degree-seeking or undergraduate
certificate-seeking students starting in the fall term and either returning for or
successfully completing their declared program by the second fall term at the
same institution, as reported to the integrated postsecondary education data
system maintained by the federal department of education. If the integrated
postsecondary education data system does not include data for an institution or
governing board for prior state fiscal years, the department shall use its available
data, as reported by the governing board to the department through the student-unit record database, in place of the missing integrated postsecondary education
data system data. The department shall ensure that the governing boards collect
and report the data in a consistent manner. A student may be counted only once in
a state fiscal year for purposes of this performance funding metric.
(18) (a) Role and mission share means the percentage share of funding
appropriated to each governing board of the total amount appropriated in the
preceding state fiscal year pursuant to sections 23-18-202 and 23-18-303.5,
excluding the amount appropriated pursuant to section 23-18-303.5 (3).
(b) Repealed.
(19) State institution of higher education or institution has the same
meaning as defined in section 23-18-102 (10).
(20) Total governing board appropriation:
(a) For the applicable fiscal year or applicable state fiscal year, has the same
meaning as the total state appropriation for the applicable fiscal year, as applied to
a governing board.
(b) For the preceding fiscal year or preceding state fiscal year, has the same
meaning as the total state appropriation for the preceding fiscal year, as applied to
a governing board.
(21) Repealed.
(22) (a) Total state appropriation means, for state fiscal years beginning on
or after July 1, 2021:
(I) For the preceding fiscal year or preceding state fiscal year, the sum of:
(A) The total amount appropriated in the annual general appropriations act
for the preceding fiscal year to the governing boards of the state institutions of
higher education for fee-for-service contracts determined pursuant to section 23-18-303.5, excluding amounts appropriated pursuant to section 23-18-303.5 (3), and
the amount of the appropriation to the college opportunity fund established in
section 23-18-202 for student stipends. This amount is the amount as enacted
during the legislative session in which the act was initially adopted, unless
otherwise specified in a supplemental appropriations act.
(B) Appropriations pursuant to sections 23-18-202 and 23-18-303.5,
excluding amounts appropriated pursuant to section 23-18-303.5 (3), that were
included in acts other than the annual general appropriations act for the preceding
fiscal year that were enacted during the same legislative session as the annual
general appropriations act, unless the act otherwise specifies.
(II) For the applicable fiscal year or applicable state fiscal year, the total
amount appropriated in the annual general appropriations act for the fiscal year to
the governing boards of the state institutions of higher education for fee-for-service contracts determined pursuant to section 23-18-303.5, excluding amounts
appropriated pursuant to section 23-18-303.5 (2) and (3), and the amount of the
appropriation to the college opportunity fund established in section 23-18-202 for
student stipends. This amount includes only the amounts enacted in the annual
general appropriations act as initially enacted, unless a supplemental
appropriations act or another act otherwise specifies. The total state appropriation
for the applicable fiscal year excludes any out-year costs or savings from
legislation adopted in previous years that the general assembly determines were
not accounted for in the preceding fiscal year's appropriations.
(b) Repealed.