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This bill requires post-secondary educational institutions to collect and report certain employment data for recent graduates. Under the bill, four-year public and independent institutions of higher education will conduct an annual employment survey of the students who graduated in the prior academic year. The institutions will then post on their websites the student employment data which will include: the overall number and percentage of students who are employed in a field related to their major or course of study one year following graduation; the overall number and percentage of students who are employed in any field one year following graduation; and the salary earned by students one year following graduation. The institutions will maintain the employment data for each graduating class on their websites for a period of four academic years. The bill requires private vocational schools to collect and report the same student employment data for students who graduated from or completed a program of the school the prior year. Four-year public and independent institutions of higher education must also collect data on the overall number and percentage of students who enroll in a graduate program within one year following graduation from the institution. Under the "New Jersey College Student and Parent Consumer Information Act," P.L.2009, c.197, four-year public institutions of higher education are currently required to provide on their websites information on the cost of attendance, the graduation rates of admitted students, and the faculty of the institution. This bill amends that law to require that independent institutions of higher education provide the same information on their websites, and to include employment data for recent graduates of the institution. Private vocational schools would only be required to provide the employment data. The bill provides that a private vocational school must report student employment data for students who graduated from or completed a program of the school in the prior year. Four-year public and independent institutions of higher education must first survey students who graduated from their institutions during the 2017-2018 academic year. Private vocational schools must first survey students who graduated from or completed a program of the institution in 2017.

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Shirley Turner (D)*, 

Referred to Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee (on 05/18/2017)