California Shifts the Ground Under Higher Education (The Chronicle of Higher Education) 3/13/2013
Scorecard for Colleges Needs Work, Experts Say (The New York Times) 2/13/2013
Budget links Ohio college graduation rates to funding (The Columbus Dispatch) 2/9/2013
Understanding the “New” Nontraditional Student (Innovative Educators) February 2013
Off Off Off Campus (The New York Times) 01/31/2013
Higher Ed’s Biggest Problem: What’s It For? (The Chronicle of Higher Ed) 01/24/2013
Freshman Survey: This Year, Even More Focused on Jobs (The Chronicle of Higher Ed) 01/24/2013
Top-Ten IT Issues 2012 (Educause)
An Open Letter to the People of Purdue 01/18/2013
Grad school enrollment declines…why? (USA Today College) 1/10/2013
Internationalization in Action (American Council on Education) 01/08/2013
State rankings of high school and college graduation rates (The Business Journals) 12/27/2012
College Enrollments Fell This Fall (Inside Higher Ed) 12/19/2012
Term Enrollment Estimates (National Clearning House Research Center) Fall 2012
Smaller U.S. Colleges Try to Crack Chinese Market (The New York Times) 12/14/2012
Another Drop in LSAT Test-Takers (Inside Higher Ed) 11/20/2012
Survey Report: Customer Service in Higher Education (Academic Impressions) 11/16/2012 (Please exit login request to see article)
Schools find new ways to welcome community college transfers (Los Angeles Times) 09/09/2012
Area Higher Education Institutions
College Still Pays (CPE) January 2013
Gateway
Gateway to reinvigorate Covington (nky.com) 11/16/2012
Gateway unveils $82M plan for urban campus in Covington (Business First) 11/15/2012
Gateway Community & Technical College - Urban Campus Master Plan June 2012
Ohio
UC steps up international recruiting initiatives (The Kentucky Enquirer) 01/14/2013
Ohio Higher Education Funding Commission November 2012
John Kasich’s New Higher Education Funding Formula: Results Equal Funding (State Impact) 11/30/2012
Ohio told to raise college graduation rates (Dayton Daily News) 11/13/2012
Ohio Headcount Enrollment Report Final 2012F
Complete College Ohio Task Force: Report & Recommendations
National Quest for Accountability and Efficiencies
US Department of Education proposed institutional scorecard (Center for American Progress) 12/3/2012
Rating States on Education Data (Inside Higher Ed) 11/16/2012
Data For Action 2012 Annual Report (Data Quality Campaign) 11/2012
The Data Quality Campaign urges in this report that data needs to cross traditional state and district boundaries and that the educational community needs to focus on using data for continuous improvement. Institutions need to ensure that IT infrastructures are in place to collect, analyze, and present quality data and a culture of effective data use must permeate through institutions and across systems. With the growing demand for postsecondary data to answer critical policy questions, quality data is needed for tracking students longitudinally from P-20W to ensure that students graduate college and career ready.
Traditional graduation rates are based only on students who finish at the institution where they started. This report illustrates that student completion is increasingly complex, with 1/3 of students attending multiple institutions before earning a credential. Findings show that 12.1 percent of the 2006 FTIC students completed a degree or certificate at an institution other than where they started. The report noted that “counting students who graduated elsewhere than at their starting institution increased the completion rate across the board for every institution type and student subgroup we studied” (p. 7). Completion rate gains were greatest for students who started college at age 24 or younger.
Smart Growth: Running the Academy by the Numbers (The Advisory Board Company) 2012
With state budget cuts, a weakened economy, and political calls for accountability, institutions across the nation are cutting administrative costs, low enrollment programs, and contingent faculty; however, to rebalance revenues and costs, institutions must find ways to grow revenues while holding costs flat. Smart growth strategies target expansion through analyses of capacity, costs, and student demand. Some institutions have found it possible to expand capacity without sacrificing standards set by faculty, such as section caps or faculty workload policies. EAB discusses best practice methods to maximize space utilization, optimize section assignments, and reduce nonessential credits to move beyond current constraints. This report yields relatively straightforward ways to accommodate more students in the existing model without compromising quality.
Complete to Compete (National Governor's Association) 07/2011
The National Governors Association discusses the rise in jobs requiring postsecondary education and the expected shortfall in a skilled, educated workforce to fill those jobs. While state budgets continue to be squeezed, the NGA urges states to build strong accountability systems that focus on using performance metrics to make and evaluate policy decisions. NGA suggests using efficiency measures such as the number of certificate and degree completions per 100 students enrolled and return-on-investment measures such as number of completions per $100,000 of state appropriations and net tuition revenues.
No Time to Waste (Southern Regional Education Board) 09/2010
SREB forecasts that the U.S. will not have enough college graduates by 2018 for the emerging economy in need of a skilled workforce. SREB urges states to take bold action to significantly increase their number of graduates, with a goal that 60% of those ages 25 to 64 have a postsecondary credential by 2025. SREB’s roadmap urges states to set priorities for graduating students; increase access to postsecondary education; build campus cultures to make completion the first priority; and increase cost efficiency in degree production.
