commissioner's year-end report

Commissioner’s Year-End Report

Board of Higher Education Meeting — June 20, 2017

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BHE Goals for 2016–17

1. Fostering a more integrated system of

public higher education capable of responding

to local & statewide needs

2. Elevating performance of public higher education

3. Developing better integration with P–12 &

workforce sectors

4. Enhancing appreciation of higher education as a

central asset & competitive advantage for state

5. Incubating innovation to ensure higher quality,

better access, more affordability & alignment to

needs of learners throughout life

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Early College Design

Remediation Reduction

Program Approval & Strategic Planning

College Affordability

Campus Safety & Violence Prevention

Accountability & Performance-Based Funding

Online Learning


Major Initiatives Supporting BHE Goals

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Vision Project Big Three

College ParticipationCollege Participation

(Workforce Alignment embedded)

College CompletionCollege Completion

(Workforce Alignment embedded)

Closing Achievement Gaps Closing Achievement Gaps

Workforce Alignment

Student Learning

Civic Learning

Research


From the Vision Project to the Big Three

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Providing underserved high school students with a

college experience

Alignment with: Fostering a more integrated system, developing

better P-12 & workforce integration, incubating innovation

Application process for Early College High Schools

near completion

Promotes dual enrollment

Aligns with STEM Starter Academies

Early college/dual enrollment also woven into 100 Males

to College, which expanded this year from Springfield &

Framingham to include Worcester & Brockton


Early College Design

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Ensuring that students are college ready by revising

placement standards and curricula

Alignment with: Fostering a more integrated system, elevating

performance, developing better P-12 & workforce integration,

incubating innovation

Entering the second year of refined pilot programs

Quantitative and qualitative evaluation process

now underway

Co-requisite model for English and math increasingly

adopted in alignment with Complete College America

Focus on the creation of multiple math pathways


Remediation Reduction

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Using our strategic planning authority to promote

college and university excellence

Alignment with: Fostering a more integrated system,

elevating performance, incubating innovation

Change in BHE policy under review

Robust strategic planning processes underway under new

guidelines

5 Community Colleges: Bristol, Middlesex, North Shore,

Northern Essex, Roxbury

4 State Universities: Bridgewater, Framingham, MCLA, Salem

Integration into Performance Measurement System

Institutional closures, mergers, acquisitions, investigations,

new institutions, cease & desist orders


Program Approval & Strategic Planning

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Commonwealth Commitment, creating academic

pathways and transfer opportunities, changing

allocation of financial aid


performance, developing better P-12 & workforce integration,

enhancing appreciation, incubating innovation

First year of Commonwealth Commitment implementation, local

expansions including Boston Bridge—what’s next?

New MassTransfer website launched: A2B Pathways, Reverse Transfer;

student learning outcomes being integrated into MassTransfer

Restructuring of financial aid programs in process

Student food & housing insecurity data collection

FAFSA completion initiative (exclusion of IRS data)


College Affordability & Completion

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Assisting campuses in preventing and responding to

violence, creating structures & processes to enhance

campus safety

Alignment with: Fostering a more integrated system

Well-attended and successful conference jumpstarted

the initiative; shared task force recommendations,

campus best practices, trainings

Seeking to build on momentum through campus

strategic planning processes, campus climate surveys,

training and awareness programs


Campus Safety & Violence Prevention

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Working with campuses to establish a metrics system

that better measures campus & system progress


performance, incubating innovation

Review of Vision Project and Performance Measurement

metrics launched

Integrating Performance Measurement System with

SU and CC funding formulas

Launch of new interactive data dashboard for

presidential evaluations and campus planning


Accountability & Performance-Based Funding

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State reciprocity agreements and universal

public higher education online course portal

Alignment with: Fostering a more integrated system, incubating innovation

SARA agreement application process awaiting

legislative action

Mass Colleges Online


Online Learning

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Fostering a more integrated system

Visits with campus boards

Annual Trustees Conference

Annual Civic Learning Conference

Elevating performance

Distribution of

Performance Incentive Fund Grants

Developing better P–12 &

workforce integration

Credentialing and early

childhood education

Early childhood educators

scholarship

Nursing & allied health systemwide

initiatives, centralized clinical

placement system

Enhancing appreciation

“Go Higher!” high school events to

promote public higher ed

Incubating innovation

Learning outcomes assessment

and multi-state collaborative

Other

Public Records Law and

policy rollout

Development of MCCC salary grid

Negotiated MCCC contract

Review of

presidential compensation


Other FY2017 Initiatives

Discussion