First-generation-serving Higher Education Institutions

The bill requires the department of higher education (department) to:

• Identify and designate state institutions of higher education (state institutions) as first-generation-serving institutions if the resident first-generation undergraduate population represents 45% or more of the institution's overall resident student population;
• Post on the department's website the names of the state institutions that are so designated; and
• Notify the state institutions that receive the designation.
  (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)