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Reaching Higher: Strategic Directions in Higher Education for Indiana
Overview
ICHE ConferenceApril 2008
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Purpose of the Commission• Plan and coordinate Indiana’s system of higher education;
• Define the missions of Indiana’s public colleges and universities;
• Review and recommend operating and capital budget requests and appropriations for the public institutions;
• Approve or disapprove for public institutions the establishment of any new branches, campuses, extension centers, colleges or schools;
• Approve or disapprove for public institutions the offering of any additional associate, baccalaureate or graduate degree or certificate program of two semesters or more in duration;
• Review all programs of the public institutions and make recommendations to the governing board of the institution, the Governor, and the General Assembly concerning the funding and the disposition of these programs; and
• Review and recommend budget requests and appropriations for the State Student Assistance Commission (SSACI).
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Reaching Higher - Aspirational Goals
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Five Key Focal Areas for 2007-08
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Format for Conference
Five Separate Sessions:
•Overview of the Current Draft
•Moderated Panel
•Questions and Answers and Comments
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Completion
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College Completion Snapshot
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Six-Year Graduation Rates at Four-Year Colleges, 2005 (Percent)
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College Completion Snapshot
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Graduation Rates for Indiana's Colleges and Universities
Four-Year Six-YearCampus Grad Rate Grad Rate
Indiana University - Bloomington 48% 72%Purdue University - West Lafayette 32% 66%Ball State University 27% 55%Indiana State University 18% 39%University of Southern Indiana 12% 33%IUPUI 7% 26%Indiana Universtiy - Regional 8% 27%Purdue University - Regional 4% 18%
Independent Institutions 58% 70%
Three-YearGrad Rate
Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana 12%Vincennes University 25%
Source: 1) For four-year campuses, NCES, IPEDS Graduation Rate Survey 2005 (First-time, full-time, bachelor's degree-seeking students entering college in the fall 1999 semester). 2) For community college campuses, National Center for Education Statistics, IPEDS Graduation Rate Survey 2003 and 2004 (First-time, full-time, associate degree-seeking students entering college in the fall 2001 semester for ITCCI and fall 2000 for VU).
College Completion Snapshot
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2001-02 2005-06 # %
Indiana University - Bloomington 5,486 6,418 932 17.0%
Purdue University - West Lafayette 6,620 6,648 28 0.4%
Ball State University 2,947 3,645 698 23.7%
Indiana State University 1,477 1,524 47 3.2%
University of Southern Indiana 1,073 1,178 105 9.8%
IUPUI 2,888 3,625 737 25.5%
Indiana University - Regional 2,572 3,046 474 18.4%
Purdue University - Regional 2,783 3,151 368 13.2%
Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana 4,520 6,823 2,303 51.0%
Vincennes University 872 1,148 276 31.7%
Grand Total 31,238 37,206 5,968 19.1%
Change in Undergraduate Degrees Awarded by Campus
Change
Notes: Degrees conferred includes Certificate (program two years or less in length below associate degree level), Associate, and Baccalaureate.
Source: Indiana Commission for Higher Education, Student Information System, annual data provided by Indiana’s public postsecondary institutions.
College Completion Snapshot
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Indiana currently ranks in the Top 10 States for the number of bachelor’s degrees awarded per 100 undergraduate students enrolled.
Best performing states for six-year baccalaureate graduation rates range from 62.2% to 67.7%. Indiana’s state-wide rate is 54.7%
NCHEMS, 2005
It is estimated that Indiana will have to produce an additional 10,000 baccalaureate degrees annually, if Indiana is to compete internationally.Matthews, D. Changing Agenda for Higher Education Access and Success (presentation presented at the H. Kent Weldon Annual Conference for Higher
Education). April 30, 2007.
College Completion Draft Recommendations
Restructure Higher Education State Appropriations by Focusing on Performance Outcomes
Credit completions (rather than enrollment growth)
Degree production
On-time graduation
Restructure Higher Education State Appropriations by Focusing on Performance Outcomes
Credit completions (rather than enrollment growth)
Degree production
On-time graduation
Increase Expectations on College Preparation
Raise the minimum curriculum admission standard at IU Bloomington, PU West Lafayette, and Ball State University to Core 40 with Academic Honors in a manner that is clearly defined and publicized well in advance of implementation.
Substantially eliminate remedial courses at Indiana’s public four-year universities
Institutional Plans for Improving College Completion
Indiana’s colleges and universities set goals and targets for improving overall graduation rates and specifically rates for minority and low-income students
Require Indiana’s colleges and universities to submit progress reports as part of the State’s biennial budget process
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Accountability
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Quality and Accountability are central and cross-cutting components of Reaching Higher.
Specifically, the plan calls for developing:
“transparent and widely reported… measures that not only advance the system as a whole, but also support and build upon the strengths of the specific institutions.”
Accountability - Call To Action
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Accountability Draft Recommendations - 1
State-Level Higher Education Dashboard of Key Indicators
ACCESS• Percent of high school graduates going directly to college• Total enrollment of resident first-time students aged 25
and older as a percentage of the resident population aged 25 and older
AFFORDABILITY•Percent of median family income needed to pay the net cost of college•Enrollment rates of 21st Century Scholars and Pell Grant recipients STUDENT SUCCESS
• Number of course completions• Number of degrees awarded• Graduation rates (four-year and six-year graduation rates
for baccalaureate colleges and universities, and two-year and three-year graduation rates for community colleges)
• Number of students who transfer credit from a community college to a baccalaureate campus and complete a degree
COLLEGE PREPARATION
• Percent of recent high school graduates enrolled in remedial education
• Percent of students enrolled in Core 40 and Academic Honors
CONTRIBUTIONS TO INDIANA’S ECONOMY
• Attainment of a bachelor’s degree or higher by the population aged 25 and over
• Total federal science and engineering research and development expenditures per capita (for IUB, IUPUI, and PUWL)
Aligned to Goals
Annual Publication
Current Status and Trend Data
State, National, and International Comparisons as Available
Institutions Align with Their Strategic Plans and Report on Progress and Peer Comparisons in Biennial Budget Process (Includes institutional cost reduction and efficiency plans)
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Accountability Draft Recommendations - 2
Indiana’s Colleges and Universities Participate in the National Voluntary System of Assessment (VSA)
College Portrait – Demographic and performance information on a college-by-college basis.
Student Engagement – Results of assessments that measure how students are engaged in classroom and extra curricula activities and the impact of those activities on success.
Student Learning Outcomes – Results of assessments that measure student learning and the extent to which the collegiate experience has been value-added in areas of critical thinking, analytic reasoning, problem solving, and written communication.
GOAL – To have all Indiana’s public colleges and universities participating as a coordinated state effort. Such participation by an entire state would be the first in the nation in regards to assessing student learning outcomes.
Indiana’s Colleges and Universities Participate in the National Voluntary System of Assessment (VSA)
College Portrait – Demographic and performance information on a college-by-college basis.
Student Engagement – Results of assessments that measure how students are engaged in classroom and extra curricula activities and the impact of those activities on success.
Student Learning Outcomes – Results of assessments that measure student learning and the extent to which the collegiate experience has been value-added in areas of critical thinking, analytic reasoning, problem solving, and written communication.
GOAL – To have all Indiana’s public colleges and universities participating as a coordinated state effort. Such participation by an entire state would be the first in the nation in regards to assessing student learning outcomes.
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Affordability
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Higher Education Price Index (HEPI)
Indiana Per Capita Income
Avg. State Aid Award
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Indiana Public University Tuition Increases since 2000-01for Incoming Freshman Class
Other IU Regionals
Tuition rates are rising faster than income, State aid, and inflation….
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Why are tuition rates at our public universities rising?
Competition for labor
Student demand continues to rise
Direct state subsidy not keeping pace with enrollment and inflation
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Not surprisingly, students are borrowing more….
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Public Universities Private Universities
$8,014
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Student Debt BurdensAvg. College Debt for Graduating Seniors
1992-93 1992-932003-04 2003-04
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And many don’t think they can afford to go…
69% of 11th graders, from non-college families, do not think they can afford to go to college.
LearnMore Indiana Career and College Information Annual Survey, 2007(represents 69% of those students responding to the survey)
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Addressing this situation is both:
1)An economic imperative – to successfully transform Indiana’s economy
2)A moral obligation – to provide opportunity to all qualified students willing to pursue it
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Affordability Recommendations Recommendation #1: Addressing the need for a better informed public on the subject of
availability of financial aid
“College Day” at every high school with: a) participation mandatory for all students; b) completion of at least one college application required for all seniors; and c) hands-on assistance in completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) available to all seniors.
Strengthen 21st Century Scholars enrollment efforts. Require annual reporting of enrollment, retention, and degree
completion for all students with financial need (both met and unmet) by all public universities and independent colleges in Indiana.
Recommendation #2: Ensuring that Indiana’s March 10th deadline for financial aid is not a
barrier
Establish a separate State aid award for students applying to Ivy Tech Community College with an application deadline that coincides with the Federal Pell Grant deadline, but with awards distributed on a first-come, first-served basis.
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Recommendation #3: Simplifying Indiana’s state financial aid program
Replace the existing, complicated aid allocation methodology with a simple matrix that sets award amounts on a sliding scale based on just three (3) factors: 1) income; 2) assets; and 3) family size.
Recommendation #4: Ensuring affordable opportunities for the middle income student
Raise income eligibility threshold for the 21st Century Scholars program by 50% - to approx. $57,000 (currently approx. $38,000).
Free tuition at Ivy Tech Community College (and perhaps for first two years at any regional campus).
Additional state aid for all Indiana college students with family income between the federal poverty level (approx. $21,000) and the state median household income (approx. $68,000).
Recommendation #5: Encouraging Indiana’s colleges and universities to add to and remodel
their institutional aid programs to ensure opportunities are available for students from low income families
Offering institutional need-based grant aid that “wraps around” State
and Federal grant aid to cover all are part of the student’s remaining unmet financial need – in a manner that is simple and transparent.
IU-Bloomington’s new 21st Century Scholars Covenant Award is a sound model, but the structure may vary from campus to campus due to differences in mission and/or financial capacity.
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Recommendation #6: Expanding and redefining state financial aid for part-time students
Increase funding of the existing Part-time Grant Program to reflect the growth in part-time enrollment over the past decade (up 13%). Currently, this grant program is funded at about $5 million annually…which is essentially unchanged since inception.
Reset eligibility criteria to target working adult students (i.e. > age 24) and focus on degree completion…with preference given to students in transitional employment.
Encourage all financial aid officers at all campuses to fully leverage employer-provided tuition reimbursement when designing aid packages.
Recommendation #7: Creating a national model for public participation in setting tuition rates
in Indiana’s colleges and universities
In 2004, a new State law was enacted requiring Indiana’s public universities to set tuition rates on a two year cycle after conducting a public hearing on the proposed rates.
In 2006, this tuition setting law was further modified to require the Indiana Commission for Higher Education to set non-binding tuition targets for each campus which could be exceed only if the proposed tuition rate was first reviewed by the State Budget Committee.
The 2009-10 academic year will be the first in which all of these public university tuition setting requirements are in place.
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Summary of Affordability Recommendations
•Addressing the need for a better informed public on the subject of available financial aid
•Ensuring that Indiana’s March 10th deadline for financial aid is not a barrier
•Simplifying Indiana’s state financial aid program
•Ensuring affordable opportunities for the middle income student
•Encouraging Indiana’s colleges and universities to add to and remodel their own institutional aid programs to ensure opportunities are available for students from low income families
•Expanding and redefining student financial aid for part-time students
•Creating a national model for public participation in setting tuition rates in Indiana’s colleges and universities
Community College
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Community College Snapshot
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Percent of population aged 25 and older participating in postsecondary education, 2000
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Decennial Census, 2000.
3.6%
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Community College Snapshot
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Fall Ten Day Headcount Enrollment Trend for Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana
%1.3to CCI: PriorAverage Annual Growth Rate
%9.8): 2004-2000CCI (SinceAverage Annual Growth Rate
Community College Snapshot
As with community colleges nationally, Ivy Tech experiences low graduation rates for full-time associate degree-seeking students (data below represents Hoosier students only):
•two-year graduation rate = 16% •three-year graduation rate = 23%•seven year graduation rates = 33%(15% for part-time students over a seven year time period)
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Community College Snapshot
Contributing challenges include:
•Many students from the lower 50% of the high school class . •70% of incoming students needing remediation.
Community college students tend to be price sensitive, and cost can be a significant factor in whether or not they will attend college. Students attending community colleges generally :
•are from lower income groups,•decide to attend college late and as such miss the March 1st deadline for state financial aid,•attend on a part-time basis,•are ineligible for federal Pell grants unless they enroll in at least six credit hours.
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Community College Draft Recommendations
Dramatically restructure the delivery of remedial education at the community college to ensure student success.
Expand the College for Working Adults pilot at Ivy Tech to become the primary program delivery for adult students (modeled after success at Indiana Wesleyan University and the University of Phoenix).
Expand Ivy Tech Community College’s ability to offer workforce training programs specific to business and industry needs and within the workplace.
Develop and implement fast-paced associate degree programs delivered on a daily schedule (similar to high school and work) at a substantially reduced price for full-time, Indiana high school graduates who enroll immediately following high school graduation.
Creating consistency with the “passport” pathways between the community college campuses and the four-year institutions.
Dramatically restructure the delivery of remedial education at the community college to ensure student success.
Expand the College for Working Adults pilot at Ivy Tech to become the primary program delivery for adult students (modeled after success at Indiana Wesleyan University and the University of Phoenix).
Expand Ivy Tech Community College’s ability to offer workforce training programs specific to business and industry needs and within the workplace.
Develop and implement fast-paced associate degree programs delivered on a daily schedule (similar to high school and work) at a substantially reduced price for full-time, Indiana high school graduates who enroll immediately following high school graduation.
Creating consistency with the “passport” pathways between the community college campuses and the four-year institutions.
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Research
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Benefits of Strong Major Research Universities
• MRU’s are an integral part of any state’s higher education system – a research enterprise
• MRU’s provide Indiana an advantage in the global competition for high quality researchers, faculty and students
• University research drives innovation, economic opportunity and growth
• A high concentration of researchers and research activity create a critical mass of human, physical and financial resources for maximum effectiveness and competition for scarce research funding
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Total Science and Engineering Research Expenditures by State (Actual Dollars)
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CALIFORNIA $6.5 BILLION
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Total Science and Engineering Expenditures per capita (NSF) [fn]
Research Snapshot
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Research Snapshot
Major Research Univ. Draft Recommendations
IU and PU have embarked on new Strategic Plans. Central to these plans should be strategies to become among the best Major Research Universities in the Midwest, country, and the world.
Identify, analyze, and monitor metrics and external rankings (specific attention given to campus and state peer comparisons).
Refine the state funding formula for research matching funds.
Consider matching research grant funds at the state-level and state-level transformative funding options.
Review research capacity needs in biennial capital budget recommendation.
Engage IU and PU in strategies aimed at recruiting and retaining top research faculty.
Encourage and assist where possible IU and PU faculty in pursuing federal and private grants through pro-active strategies.
Convene a strategy and working group with IU and PU to create collaboration between the various economic, corporate, governmental, philanthropic and university sectors of Indiana’s research enterprise.
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