Download or read book Postsecondary Attainment in the Decade of Decision written by Tennessee Higher Education Commission and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tennessee Higher Education Commission (THEC) was charged by state statute with developing a statewide Master Plan for the future development of public universities, community colleges, and colleges of applied technology, with input from the Board of Regents and the University of Tennessee Board of Trustees. The overriding function of the Plan is to direct higher education to be accountable for increasing the educational attainment levels of Tennesseans, while also: addressing the state's economic development, workforce development, and research needs; ensuring increased degree production within the state's capacity to support higher education; and using institutional mission differentiation to realize statewide efficiencies through institutional collaboration and minimized redundancy in degree offerings, instructional locations, and competitive research. The Plan for 2015-2025 represents a departure from previous documents in that it adopts a longer view than the typical five-year planning horizon that has characterized prior efforts. Rather, this Plan proposes that the ten year period 2015-2025 will represent a "decade of decision" for Tennessee postsecondary education in that: (1) the year 2025 has been identified as the "due date" for accomplishment of Governor Haslam's Drive to 55 postsecondary attainment goal; (2) achieving that goal will require focus and persistence over an extended period; and (3) the goal and its attendant policy objectives are unlikely to change fundamentally over the next ten years. The organizing framework of the 2015-2025 Plan is that it: (1) makes the case for continued, focused pursuit of the Drive to 55, Tennessee's college completion policy agenda; (2) takes stock of important achievements to date since passage of the Complete College Tennessee Act (CCTA) of 2010; (3) calculates statewide and sector-specific degree and certificate production targets necessary for meeting the statewide goal; (4) recognizes three historically underserved student populations worthy of focused policy and programmatic attention throughout the coming decade; (5) identifies tools and strategies for serving these students; and (6) offers observations and recommendations intended to guide policymakers, system leaders, and campuses as they carry out their appropriate roles relative to Drive to 55 goal attainment. Although this Plan places certificate training and undergraduate education at the center of the state's college completion policy agenda for the decade 2015-2025, the state continues to acknowledge the critical need for academic programs of distinction at the graduate and professional level to fully address Tennessee's economic development, workforce, and research needs. Appendices include: (1) Historical Data Used for Award Projections; (2) Credential Production by Award Level: Historical Data and Projections; (3) Bachelor's Degree Production by Sector; (4) Associate's Degree Production by Sector; (5) Certificate Production by Sector; (6) Programs of the Office of P-16 Initiatives; and (7) Tennessee's Current and Developing Adult Initiatives.

Download or read book Credits and Attainment written by Brian J. Zucker and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Long and Winding Road written by Patrick A. Denice and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postsecondary education in the United States has undergone profound changes in recent decades. Reflecting the strong and growing labor market premiums for college degrees, college enrollment rates have risen dramatically. And while racial and socioeconomic gaps have not completely closed, those traditionally left out of higher education -- including women, nonwhite, lower-income, and older students -- have increased both their enrollment in and completion of college degree programs. Further, the number of institutions has expanded to meet this growing demand. The roughly 21 million college students today attend over 4,500 two-year and four-year, public and private colleges and universities. At the same time, today's college students travel increasingly heterogeneous pathways through their postsecondary education by delaying the transition from high school to college, enrolling later in life, attending part-time, whether exclusively or intermittently, and enrolling in multiple institutions. This dissertation examines three key dimensions of this heterogeneity. In Chapter 2, I describe trends over the past three and a half decades in older adults' decision to return to school. Changes in rates of enrollment among older adults -- particularly in the case of black women -- have occurred in the context of rising levels of educational attainment among more traditionally-aged individuals and changes in the labor market that have recast employment as increasingly precarious. Chapter 3 capitalizes on detailed postsecondary transcript data to infer developmental trajectories of students' college credit completion over the first ten years since leaving high school. These trajectories allow us to take more fully into account the timing, sequencing, and duration of students' part-- and full-time status as they progress through postsecondary education than prior work on the subject. I then relate students' trajectories to their sociodemographic background and to their likelihood of eventually completing a college degree. Finally, in Chapter 4, I compare the post-schooling wages of students who attended for-profit colleges to those of students who either did not attend college at all or attended public or private, nonprofit colleges. Taken together, the analyses presented in this dissertation advance our current understanding of the ways in which higher education remains stratified along both its vertical and horizontal dimensions. Despite the expansion of access to higher education, getting in and through degree programs (the vertical dimension), as well as when, how, and where students choose to enroll (the horizontal dimension), continue to be patterned along racial and socioeconomic lines.

Download or read book Education at a Glance 2013 OECD Indicators written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Education at a Glance: OECD Indicators is the authoritative source for accurate and relevant information on the state of education around the world. It provides data on the structure, finances, and performance of education systems in more than 40 countries.

Download or read book Trends in Postsecondary Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Imagining the Future written by Gary B. Crosby and published by IAP. This book was released on 2022-04-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nation’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) are more culturally revered today than ever. As public health and socioeconomic inequity gaps continue to widen between the African American community and other racial groups, the HBCUs embody a shared support system. Since the 1800s, this body of prestigious higher education institutions have represented trusted pathways for the advancement of our community. With these historical accomplishments in mind, it is crucial for HBCUs and their leadership to create a vision for generations to come. Visionary leadership is a must for our storied institutions to advance beyond just surviving into fully thriving. As such, our book project, Imagining the Future: Historically Black Colleges and Universities - A Matter of Survival, offers cutting edge ideas, suggestions and advice from HBCU alumni, proponents, faculty leaders, and researchers for HBCU leadership to cultivate success today and into the foreseeable future. Imagining the Future: Historically Black Colleges and Universities - A Matter of Survival promises timely, relevant and emergent scholarship as well as perspectives for HBCU leadership, HBCU scholars and HBCU supporters.

Download or read book Finance Productivity and Management in Postsecondary Education written by National Institute of Education (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Toolbox Revisited written by Clifford Adelman and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Toolbox Revisited is a data essay that follows a nationally representative cohort of students from high school into postsecondary education, and asks what aspects of their formal schooling contribute to completing a bachelor's degree by their mid-20s. The universe of students is confined to those who attended a four-year college at any time, thus including students who started out in other types of institutions, particularly community colleges.

Download or read book Post Recession Community College Reform written by Chet Jordan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book analyses and evaluates several key community college reform programs that emerged after the Recession of 2008 and as a result of major initiatives in California, New York, Tennessee, Florida, Connecticut and Wisconsin. Because of the economic downturn in the early 21st Century, an already eroding financial base for public higher education saw even further losses. At the same time, enrollments were booming, particularly in the two-year sector where many students who would have traditionally forgone a college education, were now enrolling to ensure their competitiveness in a harsh labor market. Chapters in this book examine the development and implementation of initiatives and accountability measures imposed across the states by the Obama administration, and consider their effectiveness in reducing the impact of the loss of students, and their role in improving courses. This book will be of interest to postgraduates and researchers exploring the history of education in the United States, as well as academic administrators, faculty, and policy-makers with an interest in reform-based practices that have been successfully implemented in community colleges.

Download or read book Decision Making for Student Success written by Benjamin L. Castleman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-12 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each year, many students with affordable college options and the academic skills needed to succeed do not enroll at all, enroll at institutions where they are not well-positioned for success, or drop out of college before earning a credential. Efforts to address these challenges have included changes in financial aid policy, increased availability of information, and enhanced academic support. This volume argues that the efficacy of these strategies can be improved by taking account of contemporary research on how students make choices. In Decision Making for Student Success, scholars from the fields of behavioral economics, education, and public policy explore contemporary research on decision-making and highlight behavioral insights that can improve postsecondary access and success. This exciting volume will provide scholars, researchers, and higher education administrators with valuable perspectives and low-cost strategies that they can employ to improve outcomes for underserved populations.

Download or read book Handbook of the Economics of Education written by and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2023-11-02 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handbook of the Economics of Education, Volume Seven describes the research frontier in key topical areas and sets the agenda for further work. Sections in this new release include Methods for Measuring School Effectiveness, Teacher Evaluation and Training, U.S. School Finance: Resources and Outcomes, College Costs, Financial Aid, and Student Decisions, Firm Training, Multidimensional Human Capital and the Wage Structure, and more. By bringing together some of the world’s leading scholars, this volume provides a unique view of scholarship in the area. The international perspectives of the editors – Hanushek at Stanford, Machin at LSE, and Woessmann at Munich – leads to a volume with something for all researchers. Topics range from the economics of early childhood education to inequality in society to cash transfers in developing countries. Identifies and evaluates the state-of-the-art Includes clear descriptions of the meaning of existing research and the most likely avenues for the future Provides insights into how policy interventions in education can help or hurt human capital outcomes

Download or read book Postsecondary Education in British Columbia written by Robert Cowin and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The literature about postsecondary education in British Columbia has largely focused on public colleges and universities, while paying less attention to vocational colleges, apprenticeship, continuing education, and private institutions. Robert Cowin addresses that gap. He provides a comprehensive overview of the evolution of the contemporary provincial postsecondary system and examines the role of social justice, human capital formation, and marketization during five significant transitions. This dynamic approach provides a thoughtful critical analysis of the development of the institutional arrangements – the distribution of institutions by size, mission, type, and location – and policies that have shaped education in the province.

Download or read book Aspirations Access and Attainment written by Neil Murray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is perhaps ironic that as the global financial crisis has, in some cases, led governments and institutions to pull back from and/or set more modest goals and associated funding around widening participation, there is an ever-growing sense that the ideals buttressing the widening participation movement are becoming more universally acknowledged by educators across the globe. That acknowledgement has translated into action on the ground via such means as policy formulation, strategic planning and target setting – each of which often reflects local contexts and manifests a regional ‘flavour’. There is also, however, an increasing realisation that there are commonalities in the challenges involved with national or regional initiatives to increase the participation of non-traditional groups in higher education and that the drivers of such initiatives – and ultimately the cohorts they target – stand to benefit considerably from an open exchange of ideas and sharing of experience. This book brings together current regional perspectives on widening participation as presented by prominent academics, researchers, policy-makers, and students from across the globe. It will create for policy-makers, institutions, and individuals interested in enabling access, a useful and informative resource that will introduce, formulate, shape and reinforce the ideas and aims of the World Congresses on widening access. As the contributors maintain, in an increasingly globalised market economy and in the face of recent seismic economic, political and social change around the world, it is imperative to both secure existing talent within our populations and uncover and nurture new sources of talent. The series of essays featured in this book will explore, anticipate, and highlight themes underpinning a global movement towards a step-change in thinking, strategies, and policies – one that places youth and students from around the world at its heart.

Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Help Wanted Projections of Job and Education Requirements Through 2018 written by and published by Lumina Foundation. This book was released on with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Student Success in College written by George D. Kuh and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-01-07 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Student Success in College describes policies, programs, and practices that a diverse set of institutions have used to enhance student achievement. This book clearly shows the benefits of student learning and educational effectiveness that can be realized when these conditions are present. Based on the Documenting Effective Educational Practice (DEEP) project from the Center for Postsecondary Research at Indiana University, this book provides concrete examples from twenty institutions that other colleges and universities can learn from and adapt to help create a success-oriented campus culture and learning environment.

Download or read book Higher Education Handbook of Theory and Research written by Michael B. Paulsen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published annually since 1985, the Handbook series provides a compendium of thorough and integrative literature reviews on a diverse array of topics of interest to the higher education scholarly and policy communities. Each chapter provides a comprehensive review of research findings on a selected topic, critiques the research literature in terms of its conceptual and methodological rigor, and sets forth an agenda for future research intended to advance knowledge on the chosen topic. The Handbook focuses on a comprehensive set of central areas of study in higher education that encompasses the salient dimensions of scholarly and policy inquiries undertaken in the international higher education community. Each annual volume contains chapters on such diverse topics as research on college students and faculty, organization and administration, curriculum and instruction, policy, diversity issues, economics and finance, history and philosophy, community colleges, advances in research methodology, and more. The series is fortunate to have attracted annual contributions from distinguished scholars throughout the world.