Full Text of HB0230 100th General Assembly
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning education.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Public | 5 | | University Uniform Admission Act. | 6 | | Section 5. Definition of institution. In this Act, | 7 | | "institution" means a public university in this State. | 8 | | Section 10. Uniform admission system. An institution shall | 9 | | admit first-time freshman students for each semester under the | 10 | | provisions of this Act. | 11 | | Section 15. Automatic admission. | 12 | | (a) Subject to Section 20 of this Act, each institution | 13 | | shall admit an applicant for admission to the institution as an | 14 | | undergraduate student if the applicant graduated with a grade | 15 | | point average in the top 10% of the student's high school | 16 | | graduating class in one of the 2 school years preceding the | 17 | | academic year for which the applicant is applying for admission | 18 | | and: | 19 | | (1) the applicant graduated from a public or private | 20 | | high school in this State accredited by a generally | 21 | | recognized accrediting organization or from a high school |
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| 1 | | operated by the United States Department of Defense; | 2 | | (2) the applicant: | 3 | | (A) successfully completed the minimum college | 4 | | preparatory curriculum requirements established by law | 5 | | for admission to the institution; or | 6 | | (B) satisfied the ACT's College Readiness | 7 | | Benchmarks on the ACT college admission assessment | 8 | | applicable to the applicant or earned on the SAT | 9 | | college admission assessment a score of at least 1,500 | 10 | | out of 2,400 or the equivalent; and | 11 | | (3) if the applicant graduated from a high school | 12 | | operated by the United States Department of Defense, the | 13 | | applicant is a State resident or is entitled to pay tuition | 14 | | fees at the rate provided for State residents for the term | 15 | | or semester to which admitted. | 16 | | (b) An applicant who does not satisfy the curriculum | 17 | | requirements prescribed by item (A) of subdivision (2) of | 18 | | subsection (a) of this Section is considered to have satisfied | 19 | | those requirements if the student completed the portion of the | 20 | | college preparatory curriculum that was available to the | 21 | | student but was unable to complete the remainder of the | 22 | | curriculum solely because courses necessary to complete the | 23 | | remainder were unavailable to the student at the appropriate | 24 | | times in the student's high school career as a result of course | 25 | | scheduling, lack of enrollment capacity, or another cause not | 26 | | within the student's control. |
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| 1 | | Section 20. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 2 | | admission. | 3 | | (a) The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is not | 4 | | required to offer admission to applicants who qualify for | 5 | | automatic admission under Section 15 of this Act in excess of | 6 | | the number required to fill 75% of the university's enrollment | 7 | | capacity designated for first-time resident undergraduate | 8 | | students in an academic year. If the number of applicants who | 9 | | qualify for automatic admission to the University of Illinois | 10 | | at Urbana-Champaign under Section 15 of this Act for an | 11 | | academic year exceeds 75% of the university's enrollment | 12 | | capacity designated for first-time resident undergraduate | 13 | | students for that academic year, the university may elect to | 14 | | offer admission to those applicants as provided by this | 15 | | subsection (a) and not as otherwise required by Section 15 of | 16 | | this Act. If the university elects to offer admission under | 17 | | this subsection (a), the university shall offer admission to | 18 | | those applicants by percentile rank according to high school | 19 | | graduating class standing based on grade point average, | 20 | | beginning with the top percentile rank, until the applicants | 21 | | qualified under Section 15 of this Act have been offered | 22 | | admission in the number estimated in good faith by the | 23 | | university as sufficient to fill 75% of the university's | 24 | | enrollment capacity designated for first-time resident | 25 | | undergraduate students, except that the university must offer |
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| 1 | | admission to all applicants with the same percentile rank. | 2 | | After the applicants qualified for automatic admission under | 3 | | Section 15 of this Act have been offered admission under this | 4 | | subsection (a) in the number estimated in good faith as | 5 | | sufficient to fill 75% of the designated enrollment capacity | 6 | | described by this subsection (a), the university shall consider | 7 | | any remaining applicants qualified for automatic admission | 8 | | under Section 15 of this Act in the same manner as other | 9 | | applicants for admission as first-time undergraduate students. | 10 | | (b) If the number of applicants who apply to the University | 11 | | of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign during the current academic | 12 | | year for admission in the next academic year and who qualify | 13 | | for automatic admission to an institution under Section 15 of | 14 | | this Act exceeds 75% of the university's enrollment capacity | 15 | | designated for first-time resident undergraduate students for | 16 | | that next academic year and the university plans to offer | 17 | | admission under subsection (a) of this Section during the next | 18 | | academic year, the university shall, in the manner prescribed | 19 | | by the Board of Higher Education and not later than September | 20 | | 15 of the current academic year, provide to each school | 21 | | district, for dissemination of the information to high school | 22 | | junior-level students and their parents, notice of which | 23 | | percentile ranks of high school senior-level students who | 24 | | qualify for automatic admission under Section 15 of this Act | 25 | | are anticipated by the university to be offered admission under | 26 | | subsection (a) of this Section during the next academic year. |
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| 1 | | (c) If the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 2 | | elects to offer admission to first-time resident undergraduate | 3 | | students under subsection (a) of this Section for an academic | 4 | | year, the university must not consider an applicant's legacy | 5 | | status as a factor in the university's decisions relating to | 6 | | admissions for that academic year. | 7 | | (d) If the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 8 | | offers admission to first-time resident undergraduate students | 9 | | under subsection (a) of this Section, the university shall | 10 | | require that a student admitted under subsection (a) of this | 11 | | Section complete a designated portion of not less than 6 | 12 | | semester credit hours of the student's coursework during | 13 | | evening hours or other low-demand hours as necessary to ensure | 14 | | the efficient use of the university's available classrooms. | 15 | | (e) If the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 16 | | elects to offer admission under subsection (a) of this Section | 17 | | for an academic year, the university may not offer admission to | 18 | | first-time undergraduate students who are not residents of this | 19 | | State for that academic year in excess of the number required | 20 | | to fill 10% of the university's enrollment capacity designated | 21 | | for first-time undergraduate students for that academic year. | 22 | | (f) Not later than December 31 of each academic year in | 23 | | which the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign offers | 24 | | admission under subsection (a) of this Section, the university | 25 | | shall deliver a written report to the Governor and the General | 26 | | Assembly regarding the university's progress in each of the |
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| 1 | | following matters: | 2 | | (1) increasing geographic diversity of the entering | 3 | | freshman class; | 4 | | (2) counseling and outreach efforts aimed at students | 5 | | qualified for automatic admission under this Act; | 6 | | (3) recruiting State residents who graduate from other | 7 | | institutions of higher education to the university's | 8 | | graduate and professional degree programs; | 9 | | (4) recruiting students who are members of | 10 | | underrepresented demographic segments of this State's | 11 | | population; and | 12 | | (5) assessing and improving the university's | 13 | | recruitment efforts. | 14 | | (g) The Board of Higher Education shall publish an annual | 15 | | report on the impact of subsection (a) of this Section on this | 16 | | State's goal of closing college access and achievement gaps | 17 | | with respect to students of the University of Illinois at | 18 | | Urbana-Champaign, disaggregated by race, ethnicity, | 19 | | socioeconomic status, and geographic region and by whether the | 20 | | high school from which the student graduated was a small | 21 | | school, as designated by the State Superintendent of Education, | 22 | | or a public high school that is ranked among the lowest 20% of | 23 | | public high schools according to the percentage of each high | 24 | | school's graduates who enroll in an institution in one of the 2 | 25 | | academic years following the year of the applicant's high | 26 | | school graduation. On request, the university shall provide the |
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| 1 | | Board with any information the Board considers necessary for | 2 | | the completion of the report required by this subsection (g). | 3 | | Section 25. Admission requirements. | 4 | |
(a) To qualify for admission under this Act, an applicant | 5 | | must: | 6 | | (1) submit an application before the expiration of any | 7 | | application filing deadline established by the | 8 | | institution; and | 9 | | (2) provide a high school transcript or diploma that | 10 | | satisfies the requirements of subsection (b) of this | 11 | | Section. | 12 | | (b) For purposes of subdivision (2) of subsection (a) of | 13 | | this Section, a student's official transcript or diploma must, | 14 | | not later than the end of the student's junior year, indicate: | 15 | | (1) whether the student has satisfied or is on schedule | 16 | | to satisfy the requirements of item (A) of subdivision (2) | 17 | | of subsection (a) of Section 15 of this Act; or | 18 | | (2) if subsection (b) of Section 15 of this Act applies | 19 | | to the student, whether the student has completed the | 20 | | portion of the college preparatory curriculum that was | 21 | | available to the student. | 22 | | Section 30. Admission for child of fallen police officer, | 23 | | firefighter, or Department of Corrections employee. Each | 24 | | institution shall admit an applicant for admission to the |
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| 1 | | institution as an undergraduate student if the applicant: | 2 | | (1) is the child of a police officer or firefighter | 3 | | employed by or in the voluntary service of this State or | 4 | | any local public entity in this State who was killed or | 5 | | sustained a fatal injury in the line of duty or is the | 6 | | child of an employee of the Department of Corrections who | 7 | | was assigned to a security position with the Department | 8 | | with responsibility for inmates of a correctional | 9 | | institution under the jurisdiction of the Department and | 10 | | who was killed or sustained a fatal injury in the line of | 11 | | duty; and | 12 | | (2) meets the minimum requirements, if any, | 13 | | established for purposes of this Section by the governing | 14 | | board of the institution for high school or prior | 15 | | college-level grade point average and performance on | 16 | | standardized tests. | 17 | | Section 35. Additional preparation for college. After | 18 | | admitting an applicant under this Act, the institution shall | 19 | | review the applicant's record and any other factor the | 20 | | institution considers appropriate to determine whether the | 21 | | applicant may require additional preparation for college-level | 22 | | work or would benefit from inclusion in a retention program. | 23 | | The institution may require a student so identified to enroll | 24 | | during the summer immediately after the student is admitted | 25 | | under this Act to participate in appropriate enrichment courses |
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| 1 | | and orientation programs. This Act does not prohibit a student | 2 | | who is not determined to need additional preparation for | 3 | | college-level work from enrolling, if the student chooses, | 4 | | during the summer immediately after the student is admitted | 5 | | under this Act. | 6 | | Section 40. Student outreach program. The Illinois Student | 7 | | Assistance Commission, by rule, shall develop and implement a | 8 | | program to increase and enhance the efforts of institutions in | 9 | | conducting outreach to academically high-performing high | 10 | | school seniors in this State who are likely to be eligible for | 11 | | automatic admission under Section 15 of this Act to provide to | 12 | | those students information and counseling regarding the | 13 | | operation of this Act and other opportunities, including | 14 | | financial assistance, available to those students for success | 15 | | at institutions. Under the program, the Commission, after | 16 | | gathering information and recommendations from available | 17 | | sources and examining current outreach practices by | 18 | | institutions of higher education in this State and in other | 19 | | states, shall prescribe best practice guidelines and standards | 20 | | to be used by institutions in conducting the student outreach | 21 | | described by this Section. | 22 | | Section 45. Fall or summer enrollment. An institution that | 23 | | admits, under this Act, an applicant qualified for automatic | 24 | | admission under Section 15 of this Act may admit the applicant |
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| 1 | | for either the fall semester of the academic year for which the | 2 | | applicant applies or for the summer session preceding that fall | 3 | | semester, as determined by the institution. | 4 | | Section 50. Admissions denial; reference to Act. If an | 5 | | institution denies admission to an applicant for an academic | 6 | | year, then, in any letter or other communication the | 7 | | institution provides to the applicant notifying the applicant | 8 | | of that denial, the institution may not reference the | 9 | | provisions of this Act, including using a description of a | 10 | | provision of this Act such as "the top 10% automatic admissions | 11 | | law", as a reason the institution is unable to offer admission | 12 | | to the applicant, unless the number of applicants for admission | 13 | | to the institution for that academic year who qualify for | 14 | | automatic admission under Section 15 of this Act is sufficient | 15 | | to fill 100% of the institution's enrollment capacity | 16 | | designated for first-time resident undergraduate students. | 17 | | Section 90. Rules. The Board of Higher Education may adopt | 18 | | any rules necessary to implement this Act.
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