2023 Wyoming Statutes
Title 21 - Education
Chapter 16 - Higher Education Generally
Article 12 - Higher Education Endowment Accounts
Section 21-16-1203 - Excellence in Higher Education Endowment Fund Distributions to Wyoming Community Colleges.

Universal Citation:
WY Stat § 21-16-1203 (2023)
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21-16-1203. Excellence in higher education endowment fund distributions to Wyoming community colleges.

(a) Repealed By Laws 2007, Ch. 148, 2.

(b) Each community college shall use the earnings received under W.S. 21-16-1201(c)(ii) as provided by this section to establish endowed faculty positions and to acquire instructional and resource materials, classroom equipment and other resources necessary to support the work of the endowed faculty. The following shall govern each community college in the use of these funds:

(i) Funds shall be used for recruitment or retention of faculty, either permanent or temporary, possessing special skills or demonstrated excellence improving the quality of educational and outreach instruction;

(ii) The earnings received shall be used for the recruitment and retention of faculty with abilities necessary to establish or expand vocational programs and program quality benefiting communities, businesses and industries within respective service areas. The purpose of this paragraph is to enhance the ability of community colleges to prepare students for a lifetime of higher wages and expanded job opportunities, to provide local and regional businesses and industries with an improved, better trained and better educated workforce and to increase the economic stability of proximate communities and the entire state;

(iii) Earnings not expended pursuant to paragraph (ii) of this subsection which are received shall be used for the recruitment and retention of faculty with established reputations in academic areas offered by each individual community college. The purpose of this paragraph is to improve the ability of colleges to better prepare students to pursue bachelor and graduate degrees at the University of Wyoming or other four (4) year institutions and offer additional courses of outreach instruction to high school and adult populations within their service areas.

(c) The community colleges may collaborate with the University of Wyoming on the use of earnings received from the excellence in higher education endowment fund.

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