Transcript Remarks by Executive Director

Opening Remarks:
Executive Director G.W. Reid
August 7, 2012
Public Agenda Update & Showcase
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Performance funding
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Private Business and Vocational Schools (PBVS)
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IBHE public image
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Reducing dropout, stop-out, and time to degree
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Goal 3 of the Public Agenda
The Number One Agenda:
Performance Funding,
Dropout Re-enrollment Made Real,
Image Building,
Private Business and Vocational Schools
Implementation, and
Public Agenda Accountability
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Summer of 2012:
Regional and National
Presentations
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State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEO)
Midwestern Higher Education Compact (MHEC)
Illinois Education Research Council (IERC)
Association for Institutional Research (AiR)
American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU)
Data Quality Campaign (DQC)
Future Discussions:
Time to Degree
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Future Topics
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Dual credit programming;
Increase the effectiveness of remediation by
reducing students’ time in such courses;
Working toward the 120 hour college degree and
the 30 hour major; and
Block and convenience scheduling of courses for
the new majority of students entering higher
education for the foreseeable future.
Public Agenda Update & Showcase
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The
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Agenda
Private Business and Vocational Schools
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Transferred from ISBE to IBHE in February 2012
Dr. Dan Cullen, Interim Deputy Director for
Academic Affairs
Performance Funding
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Model for fiscal year 2013
Performance Funding Refinement Committee
Dr. Alan Phillips, Deputy Director for Fiscal
Affairs, Budgeting and Information Technology
The IBHE Brand
Image Building
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Logo and motto
Jonathan Lackland, Deputy Director for
Advancement, External & Governmental
Relations
Dropout Re-Enrollment Made Real
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Financial assistance for returning students
Dr. Arthur Sutton, Deputy Director for Diversity
& Outreach
Accountability
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Goal 3: State Accountability Report
Karen Helland, Acting Associate Director of
Research, Analysis, Policy Development and
Publications