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Texas, Other Colleges Confront Demographic Changes - Higher Education | The Texas Tribune - 0 views

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Texas demographics ethnicity hispanics

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Bruce Vandal on 07 Jan 11

Story on the shifting demographics in Texas and higher education as a whole with more students of color enrolling in postsecondary institutions.

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Push for Performance - 0 views

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Texas performance_funding

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Mary Fulton on 02 Nov 10

Discusses plans by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to adopt an outcomes-based funding formula for its community colleges and public universities. The plan would reward student completion, instead of simply student enrollment. See recommendations on THECB web site. http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/11/02/texas

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Discusses plans by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to adopt an outcomes-based funding formula for its community colleges and public universities. The plan would reward student completion, instead of simply student enrollment. See recommendations on THECB web site. <a href="http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/11/02/texas" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/11/02/texas</a> </div>

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Switch to Outcomes-Based Higher Ed Funding Taking Time - 0 views

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Texas performance_funding completion completion_goal

shared by Mary Fulton on 06 Jun 11 - No Cached

Mary Fulton on 06 Jun 11

Article discusses Texas' efforts to move toward a funding system that rewards universities for graduating more students. Policymakers have struggled to agree on which outcomes to measure, how to encourage them and if they should alter the funding formulas while budgets are being slashed. (Texas Tribune, 06/06/11)

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Article discusses Texas' efforts to move toward a funding system that rewards universities for graduating more students. Policymakers have struggled to agree on which outcomes to measure, how to encourage them and if they should alter the funding formulas while budgets are being slashed. (Texas Tribune, 06/06/11)</div>

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Report of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board on Higher Education C... - 0 views

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performance_funding Texas cost redesign productivity

shared by Bruce Vandal on 10 Nov 10 - No Cached

Bruce Vandal on 10 Nov 10

Report from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board on how to create greater cost efficiencies in higher education. Offer several strategies for cutting costs including course redesign and performance funding.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Report from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board on how to create greater cost efficiencies in higher education. Offer several strategies for cutting costs including course redesign and performance funding.</div>

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Texas Outcome Based Funding Recommendations - 0 views

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Texas completion performance_funding community_college

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Bruce Vandal on 28 Dec 10

Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board recommendations for outcome based funding model for community colleges

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Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Closing the Gaps Initiative - 0 views

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Texas completion achievement_gap

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Bruce Vandal on 28 Dec 10

Texas web site dedicated to their closing the gaps college completion initiative

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Completion by Design State Policy Profiles -- January 2012 - 0 views

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Mary Fulton on 23 Feb 12

Outlines recent policy changes in Florida, North Carolina, Ohio and Texas that relevant to the completion agenda, political environment, and governance to show progress in the Completion by Design initiative. (Jobs for the Future, January 2012)

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Outlines recent policy changes in Florida, North Carolina, Ohio and Texas that relevant to the completion agenda, political environment, and governance to show progress in the Completion by Design initiative. (Jobs for the Future, January 2012)</div>

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Senate committee offers advice to colleges - 0 views

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Texas remedial completion accountability community_colleges performance_funding

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Matt Smith on 20 Dec 10

Details Texas Senate Higher Education Interim Committee's study report. Committee offered 86 recommendations on variety of topics: dual credit, distance education, cost-cutting, performance funding, remedial education.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Details Texas Senate Higher Education Interim Committee's study report. Committee offered 86 recommendations on variety of topics: dual credit, distance education, cost-cutting, performance funding, remedial education.</div>

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Texas budget plan would cut $1.7 billion from higher education | Schools | News from Fo... - 0 views

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Texas budget funding community_college

shared by Bruce Vandal on 20 Jan 11 - No Cached

Bruce Vandal on 20 Jan 11

Proposal in TX would cut funding from higher education, close community college campuses.

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'Tracking' Revived at Community Colleges - 0 views

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Texas community_college remediation adult_basic_education completion

shared by Mary Fulton on 25 Jan 11 - No Cached

Mary Fulton on 25 Jan 11

Facing dwindling state dollars and more pressure to graduate students, Texas community colleges may begin steering students who test at the lowest skill levels toward shorter vocational programs or adult basic education before attempting college academics. (San Antonio Express-News, 01/21/11)

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Facing dwindling state dollars and more pressure to graduate students, Texas community colleges may begin steering students who test at the lowest skill levels toward shorter vocational programs or adult basic education before attempting college academics. (San Antonio Express-News, 01/21/11)</div>

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Texas Senate Higher Education Committee Interim Report - 0 views

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developmental_education Texas assessment funding adult_basic_education diagnostic limits community_college modules instruction

shared by Bruce Vandal on 05 Jan 11 - No Cached

Bruce Vandal on 05 Jan 11

Report in preparation for legislative session with recommendations for action. Report includes recommendations on developmental education.

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New Measures, New Perspectives: Graduates' Time- and Credits-to-Degree in SREB States - 0 views

Mary Fulton on 06 Jan 12

Introduces the latest SREB college completion measures, distinguishes them from graduation rate measures, and reports the first results on time-to-degree and credits-to-degree in the SREB region. The report also provides information on the characteristics of graduates, focusing primarily on their beginning status at the institutions from which they graduated. (SREB, November 2011)

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Introduces the latest SREB college completion measures, distinguishes them from graduation rate measures, and reports the first results on time-to-degree and credits-to-degree in the SREB region. The report also provides information on the characteristics of graduates, focusing primarily on their beginning status at the institutions from which they graduated. (SREB, November 2011)</div>

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News: Setting State Targets - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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2009-10 Indicators Report - SREB - 0 views

Bruce Vandal on 02 Feb 11

Annual report on key postsecondary indicators developed by SREB

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Improved transfer programs boost completion rates - 3 views

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Bruce Vandal on 19 Apr 11

Story in Community College Times on the impact of transfer/articulation on completion

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