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Section 188-D:8 Responsibilities of Commission.

The commission shall:
   I. Advise the legislature concerning planning and coordinating higher education, including the granting of degrees.
   II. Initiate studies of higher education.
   III. Work with the New Hampshire members of the New England Board of Higher Education and of other interstate agencies, as funding and staff permits.
   IV. Except as excluded in RSA 292:8-h, evaluate educational institutions seeking to grant degrees and periodically reevaluate those institutions with degree granting authority.
   V. Classify educational institutions which it has evaluated into categories indicating approval or accreditation, or both. The commission may accept accreditation by a recognized accrediting association in place of its own evaluation. The commission shall accept designation by the Carnegie classification of institutions of higher education 2000 edition, or its successor classification system.
   VI. Carry out other responsibilities set out in RSA 292:8-b through 8-kk concerning the regulation of educational institutions.
   VII. Assume responsibilities allocated to it under Public Law 92-318 and other federal programs within its jurisdiction.
   VIII. Distribute financial aid with the purpose of increasing access to postsecondary education for individuals who have been residents of New Hampshire for at least 12 consecutive months prior to the date of enrollment in any institution under the authority of the postsecondary education commission.
   IX. Establish and collect reasonable fees related to the performance of its degree-granting and research and studies functions. Such fees shall be deposited into the essential functions fund which shall be administered by the executive director of the postsecondary education commission. Such fund shall be nonlapsing, continually appropriated, and shall be used by the postsecondary education commission for expenses relating to its degree-granting and research and studies functions.

Source. 1973, 533:1. 1981, 574:3. 2003, 159:3. 2005, 60:1; 242:2. 2006, 28:2, eff. July 1, 2006.

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