Oklahoma legislation · 2026 Regular Session
Oklahoma HB3701: Higher education; requiring all academic programs be reviewed on a five-year cycle for quality and currency; review; low-producing programs; emergency.
Status: Signed into law, May 6, 2026
What the bill says
An Act relating to higher education; requiring all academic programs be reviewed on a five-year cycle for quality and currency; directing a review of a program if classified as a low-producing program; defining low-producing program; requiring the Oklahoma State Board of Regents for Higher Education to conduct an annual review of low-producing programs for deletion, suspension, or continuation; providing exemptions for continuation of low-producing programs; providing for probationary period for certain low-producing programs; requiring programs submit a plan of improvement…
From the enrolled text, April 29, 2026:
An Act relating to higher education; requiring all academic programs be reviewed on a five-year cycle for quality and currency; directing a review of a program if classified as a low-producing program; defining low-producing program; requiring the Oklahoma State Board of Regents for Higher Education to conduct an annual review of low-producing programs for deletion, suspension, or continuation; providing exemptions for continuation of low-producing programs; providing for probationary period for certain low-producing programs; requiring programs submit a plan of improvement; directing suspended or deleted programs to complete process within one academic year; requiring review after completion of probationary period; prohibiting low-producing programs from receiving more than two exemptions in a consecutive ten-year period; providing for codification; and declaring an emergency. SUBJECT: Higher education SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 3252 of Title 70, unless there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows: A. The Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education shall require all academic programs be reviewed by faculty on a five-year cycle to ensure quality and currency of each program's content. If a program is classified as a low-producing program, the classification shall trigger an early review by the Oklahoma State Board of Regents for Higher Education. B. A "low-producing program" means a program that …