Transcript Leading the Way 2013-2018: Access. Success. Impact. Board of Governors Summit August 9, 2013

Leading the Way 2013-2018:
Access. Success. Impact.
Board of Governors Summit
August 9, 2013
Leading the Way 2013-18
• The new master plan Leading the Way 2013-18:
• Renews the broad public agenda of Charting the
Future;
• Brings strategic priorities to the fore;
• Sets central role for higher education in improving
the economic, civic, and social future of the state;
• Articulates how the Commission will work toward
the system’s goals;
• Provides recommendations for how institutions can
contribute, recognizing their unique missions.
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The Development of Leading the Way
•
Progress on goals in Charting the Future
•
Input from regional public forums in 2011-12
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Progress of the legislative study on outcome-based
funding of higher education
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The completion agenda
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The need to narrow the focus of the plan and make it
more strategic
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The need to make goals more concrete
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Leading the Way Conceptual Model
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The Organization of the Document
Within each focal area:
• Definition, West Virginia data, Commission efforts
• The challenges moving forward, Commission’s role,
and recommendations to institutions
• Broad goal, objectives for the next five years of 2
types:
• System set metrics for measuring progress along
with system targets
• Charges for institutions to make comprehensive
efforts in areas in ways that fit mission and context
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Focal Area: Access
Goal: Increase access to postsecondary education for
both traditional and non-traditional aged West Virginians.
Objective: Increase enrollment in four-year public institutions
overall and in important target populations.
2018 Targets on Metrics:
• Headcount
• Annualized FTE
• First-time freshmen
• Low-income students
• Underrepresented racial/ethnic minority
• Undergraduate adult (age 25 and up)
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73,500
68,000
12,750
22,000
6,700
11,500
Focal Area: Access
Objective: Increase the percentage of West Virginia high school
graduates continuing on to higher education in the following fall to
the SREB average.
Objective: Institutions will provide a plan for a comprehensive,
collaborative access effort and report on the success and
outcomes of this effort.
Objective: Institutions will provide their comprehensive
financial aid plan that guides institution level financial aid
allocation, administration, and outreach and report on the success
and outcomes of this plan.
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Focal Area: Success
Goal: Increase the number of students at system
institutions completing quality academic programs.
Objective: Improve the outcomes of students requiring
developmental education.
2018 Targets on Metrics:
• Increase the percentage of first-time freshman students
passing developmental education courses taken in math to
70 percent and in English/writing to 75 percent.
• Increase the percentage of first-time freshman students
passing developmental education course taken in math and
English/writing and the first related college-level course to
60 percent for math and 70 percent for English/writing.
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Focal Area: Success
Objective: Increase the retention rate of students overall and specifically
in important target populations.
2018 Targets on Metrics:
First-Year Retention Rate
• Full-time freshmen:
80%
• Part-time freshmen:
50%
• Low-income freshmen:
75%
• Freshmen from underrep. racial/ethnic minority groups: 75%
• Returning adult students:
65%
• Transfer students:
76%
Objective: Increase the number of students making progress toward ontime completion.
2018 Targets on Metrics: Increase the percentage freshmen earning 30
or more credit hours in their first academic year of college to 65%.
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Focal Area: Success
Objective: Increase the four- and six-year graduation rates of
students overall and specifically in important target populations.
2018 Targets on Metrics:
4-Year
• First-time freshmen
30%
• First-time low-income freshmen
20%
• First-time underrepresented minority freshman
20%
• Returning adults
48%
• Transfer students
48%
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6-Year
60%
40%
40%
58%
58%
Focal Area: Success
Objective: Institutions will provide summaries of the reporting
year’s academic program reviews, focusing on academic quality,
evaluation of stated program outcomes, assessment of student
learning, and future actions to be taken.
Objective: Institutions with graduate programs will enhance and
report on institutional efforts to improve the outcomes of graduate
students.
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Focal Area: Impact
Goal: Increase the impact that public colleges and
universities have on West Virginia through production of
qualified graduates ready to contribute to the workforce and
the community, provision of needed services, and research
and development that promote knowledge production and
economic growth.
Objective: Increase the number of degrees awarded annually at the
undergraduate and graduate levels overall and in needed areas.
2018 Targets on Metrics:
• Total degrees: 15,500
• STEM degrees: 3,750
• Health degrees: 2,000
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• Track and increase STEM
education degrees
Focal Area: Impact
Objective: Institutions will address regional economic needs
through developing and promoting pathways to the West
Virginia workforce for students and recent graduates.
Objective: Institutions will provide plan for how the
institution and its students are engaging with external
organizations (government, business, non-profit) to solve
critical regional civic and/or social issues.
Objective: Decrease the system average federal student
loan cohort default rate to 9.0 percent.
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Focal Area: Impact
Objective: Increase research and development
activities which contribute to West Virginia’s economic
growth.
2018 Targets on Metrics:
• Annual external research and development funds: $200
million.
• Annual licensure income: $170,000.
• From 2013 to 2018, a total of 30 patents issued.
• From 2013 to 2018, a total of 20 start-up companies based
on university technology.
• Track and increase the number of articles that faculty
members publish in peer-reviewed journals.
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Compact Reporting Model
Objectives
Assessment
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Strategies
Compact Reporting Process
• Objectives with system-set metrics, institutions will:
• Set targets (due Nov. 1, 2013)
• Develop and submit strategies, means of assessment (due Nov.
1, 2014)
• Report on implementation of strategies, outcomes of
assessment, and future plans (Nov. 1, 2015 through 2018)
• Objectives with institutional autonomy, institutions will:
• Develop and submit focus of plans with outcomes, strategies,
and assessment (due Nov. 1, 2014)
• Report on implementation of strategies, outcomes of
assessment, and future plans (Nov. 1, 2015 through 2018)
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Compact Reporting Process
• Focus on a few planned, cohesive, sustained efforts
• Addition assurance of student learning, faculty scholarship
• Focus on the inter-related nature of the three focal areas
• Attention to the best practices/tools of the master plan:
• Collaboration
• Fiscal responsibility
• Assessment
• Electronic submission, common format, limited response space
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Commission Responsibility
• Timely provision of data
• Support through the planning year with best practices,
professional development, opportunities to gather
• Review by staff of initial targets, plans, and strategies, and
yearly updates; recommendations for approval to the
Commission
• Publication of compacts on master planning area of website
• Recognition for exceptionally good strategies and outcomes
• On-going efforts to inform, support, and coordinate
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How the Board is Involved
• Boards must approve institution compacts including the
numerical targets being set this fall
• Need to understand the shift to focused, sustained efforts in
strategies and comprehensive plans that require broad campus
and community input
• Need support for:
• Collaborative approach in efforts and reporting
• Targeting of resources to meet goals
• Assessment of all efforts
• Understand the importance to the Legislature of institutional
progress toward state goals
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