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Mary Fulton

Prioritizing Course Enrollment at the Community Colleges - 0 views

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    Examines enrollment policies and practices at California community colleges, and makes recommendations for improvement. Looks at time-to-degree. (California Legislative Analyst Office, January 2011)
Bruce Vandal

Education Interests Sign MOU - West Virginia Headline News and Talk Radio - 0 views

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    Story on how West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission and the Department of Education have signed a Memorandum of Agreement to create a longitudinal data system.
Matt Smith

Follow the F Grades - 1 views

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    Details how institutional research, data collection can lead to programmatic changes that promote student success. Collecting data on course failure rates allowed administration and faculty to look critically at the effectiveness of several instructional delivery formats and introduce academic policies that support student retention.
Bruce Vandal

Priced Out | Education Trust - 0 views

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    Report on how poor financial aid policies negatively impact success for low-income students
Mary Fulton

Assessment of Opportunities and Models for Adults to Complete the Baccalaureate Degree ... - 0 views

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    Examines issues related to and makes recommendations to increase degree and credential attainment by Virginia's working-age adults (age 25-64), and to tailor programs to more effectively serve these non-traditional students. (State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, April 2012). Also see Report Summary. http://www.schev.edu/Reportstats/ALBookletFinal.pdf?from
Mary Fulton

Degree Completion Beyond Institutional Borders:Responding to the New Reality of Mobile ... - 0 views

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    Describe four mechanisms that allow students to convert or exchange their college credits and prior learning assessment for academic credit. These include: articulation agreements; prior learning assessments; services to support transfer and prior learning; competency-based programs. Offers recommendations for policymakers.
Mary Fulton

Using Data to Increase College and Career Readiness: A Primer for State Policymakers - 0 views

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    Discusses actions for state policymakers to take to strengthen their P-20 data systems to increase college and career readiness. (Data Quality Campaign, January 2012)
Bruce Vandal

Mississippi Graduation Rate Task Force - 0 views

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    Web page for the legislatively mandated College Graduation Task Force for the Institutes of Higher Learning in Mississippi.
Bruce Vandal

Final Report: Mississippi College Graduation Task Force - 0 views

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    The final report for the Mississippi College Graduation Task Force
Bruce Vandal

Montana Making Opportunity Affordable Policy Audit - 0 views

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    Montana report for the Making Opportunity Affordable project. Addresses several issues to include remediation and developmental education participation.
Bruce Vandal

Bachelor's Degree Completion Across State Contexts: Does the Distribution of Enrollment... - 0 views

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    Study by Josipa Roksa that finds that states with higher percentage of enrollments in community colleges actually have higher BA attainment rates.
Bruce Vandal

How Do You Make America the Best-Educated Country? - Government - The Chronicle of High... - 0 views

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    Focus on Complete College Tennessee Act. Addresses outcome funding model and the directives to community colleges to offer cohort based model and not deliver developmental education.
Bruce Vandal

National Governors Association - Chair's Initiative 2010-2011 - Complete to Compete - 1 views

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    Web page for Governor Manchin's Initiative for the National Governors Association on challenging states to adopt common metrics for measuring college completion rates in their state
Bruce Vandal

Time to Completion: States and Systems Must Tackle the Time Dilemma | Jobs for the Future - 1 views

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    Report by Jobs for the Future on how to accelerate student completion to degrees. Authored by Nancy Hoffman.
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    Acceleration is a key strategy of Complete College America
Mary Fulton

Measuring Success by Degrees: The Status of College Completion in SREB States - 0 views

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    Provides college enrollment and graduation rates and other sets of data that SREB states can use to gauge progress in helping more people earn college degrees and career certificates. (SREB, December 2010)
Bruce Vandal

Top 10 Higher Education State Policy Issues 2011 - 0 views

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    Brief from American Association of State Colleges and Universities on their assessment of the top 10 higher education issues for state policymakers in 2011
Bruce Vandal

The College Board and the National Conference of State Legislatures Convenes Policy Lea... - 0 views

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    College Board session on college completion in Maryland
Bruce Vandal

Degrees for What Jobs? Raising Expectations for Universities and Colleges in a Global E... - 0 views

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    Discusses how governors and policymakers in some states are demonstrating that state governments-through leadership, policy decisions and funding strategies-can help higher education institutions embrace the critical role they play in preparing a state's workforce for jobs that will enable the state to prosper in the new economy. (National Governors Association, March 2011)
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    Report from NGA on how higher education is aligned with the workforce. Features case studies of four states.
Mary Fulton

Driving Innovation from the Middle: Middle-Skill Jobs in the American South's Economy - 0 views

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    Examines the percentage of middle-skill jobs -- those that require post-high school education and training, but less than a four-year degree -- available in the South. The report also looks at the percentage of job seekers meeting these qualifications. (National Skills Coalition, August 2011)
Bruce Vandal

Big Goals and Smart Policy: Strengthening Connecticut's Colleges and Universities - Lum... - 1 views

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    Jamie Merisotis remarks on college completion in Connecticut
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