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Commissioner's Year-End Report
The Commissioner's year-end report highlights key goals and initiatives for the Board of Higher Education for 2016-17, focusing on enhancing the public higher education system's responsiveness to local needs, performance elevation, and better integration with P-12 and workforce sectors. Major initiatives include early college design, remediation reduction, college affordability, campus safety, and accountability measures aimed at fostering innovation and access. The report outlines efforts to ensure college readiness, improve dual enrollment, and enhance student learning opportunities while addressing issues of campus safety and violence prevention.
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- 1. Commissioner’s Year-End Report Board ofHigher Education Meeting — June 20, 2017
- 2. 2 Commissioner’s Year-End Report BHEGoals 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
- 3. 3 Early CollegeDesign Remediation Reduction Program Approval & Strategic Planning College Affordability Campus Safety & Violence Prevention Accountability & Performance-Based Funding Online Learning Commissioner’s Year-End Report Major Initiatives Supporting BHE Goals
- 4. 4 Vision Project BigThree College Participation College Participation (Workforce Alignment embedded) College Completion College Completion (Workforce Alignment embedded) Closing Achievement Gaps Closing Achievement Gaps Workforce Alignment Student Learning Civic Learning Research Commissioner’s Year-End Report From the Vision Project to the Big Three
- 5. 5 Providing underservedhigh 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 Commissioner’s Year-End Report Early College Design
- 6. 6 Ensuring thatstudents 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 Commissioner’s Year-End Report Remediation Reduction
- 7. 7 Using ourstrategic 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 Commissioner’s Year-End Report Program Approval & Strategic Planning
- 8. 8 Commonwealth Commitment,creating academic pathways and transfer opportunities, changing allocation of financial aid Alignment with: Fostering a more integrated system, elevating 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) Commissioner’s Year-End Report College Affordability & Completion
- 9. 9 Assisting campusesin 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 Commissioner’s Year-End Report Campus Safety & Violence Prevention
- 10. 10 Working withcampuses to establish a metrics system that better measures campus & system progress Alignment with: Fostering a more integrated system, elevating 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 Commissioner’s Year-End Report Accountability & Performance-Based Funding
- 11. 11 State reciprocityagreements 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 Commissioner’s Year-End Report Online Learning
- 12. 12 Fostering amore 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 Commissioner’s Year-End Report Other FY2017 Initiatives
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Editor's Notes
- #5 Note from Sarah: I added “Workforce Alignment embedded” under College Participation and College Completion (consistent with most recent description of The Big Three in The Degree Gap)
- #6 Note from Sarah: Throughout the presentation, I changed the goal numbers into the shorthand language for each goal so people don’t have to flip back and forth as much. On this slide, I moved 100 Males up from the concluding slides. Even though 100 Males is broader than early college, it including a dual enrollment component and fits well with the overarching description of “providing underserved high school students with a college experience.” This placement also lets you mention it much earlier in the presentation.
- #8 Note from Sarah: I grouped the campuses undergoing strategic planning by segment, then alphabetized
- #9 Note from Sarah: I added “First year of ComCom implementation” as an accomplishment, also moved Boston Bridge up from the concluding slides, merged “What’s next?” question into this bullet. With local expansions, you might also mention (1) NSCC’s project (I’m not sure of the status) and (2) Bridgewater’s dual admissions agreements with Bristol and Massasoit. Katy added MassTransfer website launch, another major milestone this year. I moved student learning (as it relates to academic pathways), food & housing insecurity data (as it relates to affordability), and FAFSA completion (as it relates to affordability / financial aid) up from the concluding slides.
- #10 Note from Sarah: This slide felt a little thin, so I went back to Dena’s submission and added a second bullet. I also think this is important due to Chair Gabrieli’s keen interest in campus climate surveys. Is it OK to put something so forward-looking in?
- #11 Note from Sarah: I included mention of the Vision Project in the first bullet to help less engaged Board members track the evolution that is happening. I also changed the wording of the third bullet to make the dashboards sound more internal (consistent with promise to make them public without publicizing).
- #12 Note from Sarah: I rearranged the wording of this slide to be consistent with the others, but it leaves Mass Colleges Online with less verbiage than anything else highlighted in the presentation. I don’t know enough about MCO to flesh out the bullet. Can you add a few more words? (Overhaul of Mass Colleges Online underway through PACE? If that’s true…?)
- #13 Note from Sarah: I took what was left and organized each bullet under the BHE goal that it most closely aligns with, to my eye, with a final “Other” category for the things that don’t quite fit.