Commissioner Buhler's presentation to the Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee on January 31, 2014. The Commissioner presented the base budget of the Board of Regents and information on the Utah Data Alliance.

1. Opening Graphic

2. UTAH STATE BOARD OF REGENTS
BASE BUDGET
David L. Buhler
Commissioner of Higher Education
January 31, 2014

3. State & Local Public Higher Education Support
Per Full-time Equivalent Student
$5,383
$5,048
$5,338
$5,119
$6,296
$5,756
$7,106
$6,290
$4,000
$4,500
$5,000
$5,500
$6,000
$6,500
$7,000
$7,500
1991
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
Utah U.S. Avg.
Source: National Center for Higher Education Management Systems

4. Board of Regents Budget Overview
 Entirely appropriated dollars (no tuition)
 3 uses of dollars:
 Pass-through programs (technology,
scholarships, etc.)
 Personnel (Commissioner’s Office)
 Statewide initiatives

5. 20 Budget lines
Admin.
Concurrent Enrollment
Coordination
Articulation Support
Economic Development
Education
Excellence
Federal Programs
Regents Scholar
Student Financial Aid
Minority Scholarship
New Century
Scholar
Success Stipend
WICHE
T.H. Bell
Teacher Incentive Loan
Program
Hearing
Impaired
Campus Compact
Higher Ed. Technology
Initiative
Acad. Library
Consortium
Engineering Initiative
Utah Medical Education
Council

6. Pass-through vs. Board Administration
Pass-through
Programs
86%
Commissioner’s
Office
14%

7. % of Overall Higher Education (USHE)
Budget
Pass-through
Programs
1.83%
Commissioner’s
Office
.3%

8. Pass-through
 Regents’ Scholarship
 New Century Scholarship
 Student Financial Aid
 Minority Scholarship
 Western Undergraduate
Exchange
 T.H. Bell Teacher Incentive
 Hearing Impaired Support
 Campus Compact
 Higher Ed Tech. Initiative
 Library Consortium
 TICE
 Utah Women in Education
Initiative
 Engineering & Computer
Science Initiative
 Engineering Scholarship
 Utah Medical Education
Council
 Performance Funding

9. Board of Regents
 Statewide policy/governance
 Statewide scholarship programs
 Program review and approval process
 Budget support between state and institutions
 Presidential searches (5 searches in 2 years)
 Articulation
 Concurrent Enrollment
 State-level economic development cooperation
 Data warehouse and reporting
 Strategic planning
 Information requests from Legislators/Governor
 Statewide initiatives
 College Readiness (Step Up)
 Completion

10. Efficiencies
 4 Associate Commissioners to 2
 Consolidated Planning and Institutional Research
functions with Finance, Facilities
 Consolidated Economic Development and Student Affairs
functions with Academic Affairs
 Concerted effort to update Regent policies (some over 30
years old)
 Reduced number of Board of Regents meetings from
over 10 to 6 annually

11. Opening Graphic

12. THE UTAH DATA ALLIANCE
USHE PERSPECTIVE

13. USHE’s long history of publishing data
 Data book - annually published since 1987
(2002-2014 online)
 USHE Data warehouse built in 1999
 Relied upon by state and national entities
 Legislature, institutions, media
 IPEDs, National Clearing House, Complete College
America, WICHE
Enrollments Degrees
/Certificates Facilities
CTE Cost Study Salary Information
Tuition/Fees Staffing Budget History
Scholarships Comparisons Financial aid

14. Utah Data Alliance Partners
Utah’s State Longitudinal Data System (SLDS)
 Legacy system managed by K-12
6 Grant Partner Agencies
 Utah State Office of Education (USOE) -- Lead
 Utah System of Higher Education (USHE)
 Utah College of Applied Technology (UCAT)
 Utah Educational Network (UEN) -- IT Support provider
 Utah Educational Policy Center – College of Education,
Univ. of Utah
 Utah Department of Workforce Services (DWS)

15. Utah Data Alliance Grant Overview
 Grant awarded to 47 states (between 2006-2009)
 Utah awarded grant in 2009
 Extension in 2013
 Expires June 30, 2014
 USHE portion: 1 FTE
 Utah is far ahead of most states
 Longitudinal data is a major part of USHE’s Completion
Initiative

16. UDA Initiatives
 Chronic Absenteeism in K-12
 Inter-generational Poverty
 Post-Secondary Enrollment/Retention rates by
County/District
 Mathematics Remediation
 Governor’s “PACE” metrics (STEM focused)
 1st and 5th Year Wage Information by degree/certificate

17. Potential
 First time large legacy data systems have been
connected
 Shared objective to get information to the public
 A lot of data quality verification - slow, labor intensive
 Best practices/procedures established

18. WAGE DATA

19. Benefits of Using Wage Data
 Macro-level snapshot of the industries postsecondary
graduates are employed
 Historical trends of aggregated wage and educational
attainment data by industry
 Utilizes state level data

20. UDA Wage Information History
 Data first compiled July 2013, shared at August Education
Interim Committee by USOE
 Culmination of two years of work to enable large legacy
data systems to “talk” to each other
 First time Utah specific wage data and USHE
degree/certificate information have been merged by
matching individual records
 USHE web interactive of wage data by degree/certificate
and by institution—January 2014

21. Wage Records Limitations
 Only quarterly wages
 No hourly wage or hours worked
 Based on quarterly wage reports estimated to an annual level
 Only contains industry information
 No job titles – Cannot verify that an individual with a degree in a
health-related program is performing a healthcare related job
function
 No employer - A healthcare organization employs more than
just employees with a degree/certificate in health-related
college programs
 Only includes wage info in DWS Unemployment
Insurance (UI) Database
 UI wage data accounts for only part of the state’s wage earners
 Only an estimated 50% of DWS UI data provides a workable
match to a USHE 1st-year degree holder

22. Wage Records Limitations
Incomplete Wage Information
All wage earners
that graduate from
a Utah institution

23. Wage Records Limitations
Incomplete Wage Information
Employed in Utah,
reported to DWS
All wage earners
that graduate from
a Utah institution

24. Wage Records Limitations
Incomplete Wage Information
em
Employed in Utah,
reported to DWS
Employed
out of
state
Military, federal
government,
self-employed
Unemployed or
not in workforce
No SSN
All wage earners
that graduate from
a Utah institution

25. Wage Records Limitations
Incomplete Wage Information
em
Employed in Utah (via DWS)
Employed
out of
state
Military, federal
government,
self-employed
Unemployed or
not in workforce
No SSN
Known
All wage earners
that graduate from
a Utah institution

26. Other Wage Data “Unknowns”
 Previous job experience
 Previous degrees (before 2003)
 Relationship to employer (family business?)
 Multiple jobs
 Hours worked
 Geographic factors (rural vs. urban)

27. USHE’s interest in Longitudinal Data
1. Data gap between high school and college information
2. Informing students with relevant employment and info
associated with degrees/programs of study
 Example: High School Feedback report pilot
 Davis
 Granite
 Ogden
 Provo

28. higheredutah.org/reports/
 Utah wage information by field of study
 Where are Utah college graduates employed?