The State Commission on Higher Education shall maintain a statewide planning system to address strategic issues in public and private higher education. The system must focus upon the following goals to:
(1) identify future directions for higher education in South Carolina and recommend appropriate methods for meeting the resultant challenges;
(2) review major goals identified by the public and private institutions of higher learning in this State and ascertain their relationship to higher education in South Carolina;
(3) assure the maintenance and continued development of the quality of higher education in South Carolina;
(4) assure the maintenance and continued provision of access to and equality of educational opportunity in higher education in South Carolina;
(5) measure and monitor an institution's standard of achievement in regard to the performance indicators for quality academic success as contained in Section 59-103-30.
HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 629, Section 1; 1996 Act No. 359, Section 10.