Posts Tagged ‘degree attainment’
Doing Good and Doing Well: Performance-Based Funding in Higher Ed
by David Mabe
March 31, 2011
The New England Board of Higher Education released a policy brief that encourages states to tie a portion of higher education appropriations to institutional outcomes. Currently, New England states tend to apportion institutional funding based on enrollment levels—a practice that rewards quantity, but not necessarily student success and degree attainment.
From President Obama to private foundations ...
Read MoreTags: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, college completion, college success, degree attainment, Economy, enrollment, graduation rates, Lumina Foundation, national education agenda, New England Board of Higher Education, President Obama | No Comments
New England 2025: NEBHE Launches College-Completion Dashboards
by NEBHE Admin
March 1, 2011
NEBHE launched the first phase of its college-completion project, New England 2025.
Supported with a Lumina Foundation grant and the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems, NEBHE's Department of Policy and Research built a series of state-level "dashboards" and models that can examine college completion and various metrics with new levels of sophistication.
These models allow ...
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College Attainment: Throwing a Complete Game
by Stan Jones and David Soo
July 26, 2010
The U.S. once had the world’s highest percentage of adults with a college degree, but has now dropped to 10th, according to the OECD. In an attempt to reverse this slide, a number of policymakers and foundations have sought to make increased degree attainment a national priority. President Obama has articulated the goal that America ...
Read MoreTags: American Community Survey, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Census Bureau, community colleges, Complete College America, David Soo, degree attainment, Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, Lumina Foundation, Stan Jones, The New England Journal of Higher Education, U.S. Department of Education | No Comments
