§ 237. Regents plan for higher education including approved plans of\nstate university and city university of New York and plans of\nindependent institutions of higher education. 1. Purposes of planning.\nMaster planning for higher education in New York State should:\n a. Define and differentiate the missions and objectives of higher\neducation.\n b. Identify the needs, problems, societal conditions and interests of\nthe citizens of the state of New York to which programs of higher\neducation may most appropriately be addressed.\n c. Define and differentiate the missions and objectives of\ninstitutions of higher education.\n d. Develop programs to meet the needs, solve the problems, affect the\nconditions and respond to the public's interests by:\n (1) Setting goals.\n (2) Describing the time required to meet those goals.\n (3) Identifying the resources needed to achieve the goals.\n (4) Establishing priorities.\n e. Be in sufficient detail to enable all participants in the planning\nprocess, representatives of the people and the citizens themselves to\nevaluate the needs, objectives, program proposals, priorities, costs and\nresults of higher education.\n f. Optimize the use of resources.\n g. Evaluate program effectiveness.\n 2. The regents shall, on or before the twenty-fifth day of April\nnineteen hundred seventy-one and each fourth year thereafter, request\nthe state university trustees, the board of higher education of the city\nof New York, and all independent higher educational institutions to\nsubmit long-range master plans for their development. Such request shall\nspecify the nature of the information, plans and recommendations to be\nsubmitted, shall describe statewide needs, problems, societal conditions\nand interests of the citizens and discuss their priorities, and provide\nappropriate information which may be useful in the formulation of such\nplans.\n 3. The regents shall, once every four years, review the proposed plan\nand recommendations required to be submitted by the state university\ntrustees pursuant to section three hundred fifty-four of this chapter,\nthe proposed plan and recommendations of the board of higher education\nin the city of New York required to be submitted pursuant to section\nsixty-two hundred two of this chapter, and the plans of independent\ninstitutions of higher education and, upon approval by the regents of\nthe plans submitted by the state university trustees and the board of\nhigher education, they shall be incorporated into a regents plan or\ngeneral revision thereof for the development of higher education in the\nstate. Such regents plan shall include the plan and recommendations\nproposed by the state university trustees and the plan and\nrecommendations proposed by the board of higher education in the city of\nNew York and may include plans with respect to other matters not\ncomprehended within the plan of the state and city universities,\nincluding but not limited to improving institutional management and\nresources, instruction and guidance programs, financial assistance to\nstudents and extension of educational opportunities. In determining the\nneed for additional educational facilities in a particular area, the\nplans and facilities of existing public and independent institutions\nshall be fully evaluated. Such statewide plan shall include for\ninformation purposes a summary of all recommendations appearing in the\nprior statewide plan and subsequent amendments thereof containing a\nbrief statement of action taken and progress toward achievement of each\nsuch recommendation.\n 4. During the calendar year nineteen hundred sixty-four and each\nfourth year thereafter the regents shall evaluate all available\ninformation with respect to the plans and facilities of independent\ninstitutions and shall review and act upon the proposed plan and\nrecommendations of the state university trustees and upon the proposed\nplan and recommendations of the board of higher
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