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Committee on Higher Education

Tuesday, October 28, 2025 · 1:00 PM AM · 250 Broadway - 8th Floor - Hearing Room 3

TL;DR

The Committee on Higher Education held hearings on two main topics: a reading and writing crisis affecting college students, and a proposed College Safety Act to allow remote learning for immunocompromised students and faculty. One resolution was temporarily set aside for further consideration, while the oversight on the reading/writing crisis was completed and filed.

Key Decisions

  • Oversight Hearing: Reading and Writing Crisis Among College Students Filed
  • College Safety Act Resolution (Remote Learning for Immunocompromised Students/Faculty) Laid Over
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Agenda

  1. T2025-4168 Oversight - The Reading and Writing Crisis Among College Students.
    Oversight
    Action: Hearing Held by Committee

    This Oversight was Hearing Held by Committee

  2. Res 0500-2024 Resolution calling on the New York State Legislature to introduce and pass, and the Governor to sign, legislation entitled The New York State College Safety Act to require that all campuses of The State University of New York and The City University of New York permit autoimmune and immunocompromised students and faculty to learn and teach via remote instruction in as many courses as feasible whenever students or faculty are dealing with an unpredictable or temporarily debilitating impact of their condition.
    Resolution
    Action: Hearing Held by Committee

    This Resolution was Hearing Held by Committee

  3. Roll Call
  4. Res 0500-2024 Resolution calling on the New York State Legislature to introduce and pass, and the Governor to sign, legislation entitled The New York State College Safety Act to require that all campuses of The State University of New York and The City University of New York permit autoimmune and immunocompromised students and faculty to learn and teach via remote instruction in as many courses as feasible whenever students or faculty are dealing with an unpredictable or temporarily debilitating impact of their condition.
    Resolution
    Action: Laid Over by Committee

    This Resolution was Laid Over by Committee

  5. T2025-4168 Oversight - The Reading and Writing Crisis Among College Students.
    Oversight
    Action: Filed, by Committee

    This Oversight was Filed, by Committee

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