LRB-1240/3
ARG:klm
2017 - 2018 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Krall, BB0164 - Internships; required for graduation at four-year UW institutions
For 2017-2019 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
education
Higher education
This bill prohibits four-year UW System schools from awarding a bachelor's degree to a student unless the student has had an internship experience or work experience. The Board of Regents of the UW System must establish policies for determining whether a student has satisfied this internship or work requirement.
For further information see the state and local fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section
1. 36.09 (3) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
36.09 (3) (a) The chancellors shall be the executive heads of their respective faculties and institutions and shall be vested with the responsibility of administering board policies under the coordinating direction of the president and be accountable and report to the president and the board on the operation and administration of their institutions. Subject to board policy and s. 36.11 (7) (b), the chancellors of the institutions in consultation with their faculties shall be responsible for designing curricula and setting degree requirements; determining academic standards and establishing grading systems; defining and administering institutional standards for faculty peer evaluation and screening candidates for appointment, promotion and tenure; recommending individual merit increases; administering associated auxiliary services; and administering all funds, from whatever source, allocated, generated or intended for use of their institutions.
Section
2. 36.11 (7) of the statutes is renumbered 36.11 (7) (a) and amended to read:
36.11 (7) (a) The Subject to par. (b), the board may confer such degrees and grant such diplomas as are usual in universities or as it deems appropriate.
Section
3. 36.11 (7) (b) of the statutes is created to read:
36.11 (7) (b) The board may not confer a bachelor's degree on a student enrolled in a university unless the student has had an internship experience or work experience while enrolled in the university. The board shall establish policies for determining whether a student has satisfied the requirement under this paragraph.
Section 9348.
Initial applicability; University of Wisconsin System.
(1) Internship or work requirement for degree. The treatment of section 36.11 (7) (b) of the statutes first applies to students first enrolled in the 2018-19 academic year.
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