WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor Ch. 469
(2) The Chancellor shall:

(i) Advise the Board of Regents on systemwide policy;
(ii) Conduct systemwide planning;

(iii) Coordinate and arbitrate among the institutions and centers of

the University;

(iv) Assist the institutions in achieving performance goals in
accordance with the Accountability Reporting Program; and

(v) Provide technical assistance to institutions and centers such as
legal and financial services.

(e) Each campus of the University of Maryland System shall have a president
who is the chief executive officer of the institution.

(f) The University of Maryland System shall:

(1) Maintain and enhance the College Park campus as the State's flagship
campus with programs and faculty nationally and internationally recognized for
excellence in research and the advancement of knowledge;

(2) Admit as freshmen to the College Park campus highly qualified
students who have academic profiles that suggest exceptional ability;

(3) Provide access to the upper division undergraduate level of the College
Park campus for students who have excelled in completing lower division study; and

(4) Provide the College Park campus with the level of operating funding
and facilities necessary to place it among the upper echelon of its peer institutions.

(g) The University of Maryland System shall maintain and enhance a
coordinated Higher Education Center for Research and Graduate and Professional
Study, in the Baltimore area. Based on their joint graduate and research programs, the
University of Maryland at Baltimore and the University of Maryland Baltimore County
shall be considered a single research institution for the purposes of determining peer
institutions. Funding guidelines for the professional schools of the University of
Maryland at Baltimore shall be based on peer comparisons separately established for
each school.

(H) THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SYSTEM SHALL:

(1) MAINTAIN AND ENHANCE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE AS THE
STATE'S CAMPUS FOR CONTINUING HIGHER EDUCATION; AND

(2) PROVIDE——UNIVERSITY——COLLEGE—WITH——OPERATING
FUNDING AND FACILITIES FOR EACH OF ITS STUDENTS NOT LESS THAN
THOSE OBLIGATIONS AT OTHER PUBLIC SENIOR INSTITUTIONS IN THE
STATE MAY RECOGNIZE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE AS A CAMPUS FOR
CONTINUING HIGHER EDUCATION.

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