This document contains draft recommendations from a task force regarding tuition and governance at public universities in Florida. It provides background information on declining state support for higher education and restrictions on tuition increases in Florida. The task force recommends abandoning the tuition policy that locks universities into a narrow tuition range. It also recommends giving university boards of trustees more authority over tuition rates and allowing differentiated rates by program. The recommendations aim to provide universities more flexibility to deal with state funding cuts while maintaining affordability.
This document summarizes a journal article about the relationship between public university research and state economic development. It describes potential virtuous and vicious cycles in this relationship. The virtuous cycle involves increased federal research funding leading to more university discoveries, job growth, and increased state tax revenues that fund universities. However, a vicious cycle can also occur if states do not adequately fund universities. This can weaken universities' research competitiveness and the state's long-term economy. It can also exacerbate disparities between states with strong vs. weak university systems.
This document discusses occupational projections in Florida from 2011 to 2019. It includes two tables showing employment counts by education level for 2003, 2011, and 2019. The tables assign educational codes to occupations based on Florida codes and U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics codes. The document also compares projected bachelor's degree production in Florida to projected job openings requiring a bachelor's degree over that period.
This document provides draft talking points to guide a teleconference discussion about implementing a differentiated tuition model. It outlines a three-step plan where universities could gradually increase tuition rates for degrees up to 6 times the Consumer Price Index annual increase. Degrees classified as "eminent," such as those leading to high employment, could have lower tuition increases. The program would be reevaluated after 4 years based on economic factors. If a university's student quality or graduation rates dropped for two years in a row, tuition increases would be capped at the CPI increase until improvements are made.
The document discusses reforms needed for Florida higher education. It argues that (1) Florida already has an effective structure in place and does not need reorganization, (2) restoring state funds cut in recent years is essential to improve student/faculty ratios and access to courses, and (3) additional new funding is needed to address salary compression and retain faculty talent, in order to build a strong knowledge-based economy.
The document is the final report of the Florida Blue Ribbon Task Force on State Higher Education Reform from November 2012. It provides recommendations on accountability, funding, and governance for the Florida State University System. The task force organized their work around these three areas and provided a strengths/weaknesses analysis of the system. They recommend a set of linked accountability, funding, and governance changes intended to improve understanding between universities and funding stakeholders and help the system better demonstrate its value and operational innovation.
The document proposes refinements to the "System Strengths and Weaknesses" section of a report. It lists three strengths: 1) an effective professional staff supports the Board of Governors, 2) local control enables excellent learning environments, and 3) comprehensive coordination allows the Board to manage higher education goals. It also lists three weaknesses: 1) limitations in data analysis inhibit decision making, 2) over-centralization may hinder innovation, and 3) insufficient data assessment of university performance.
The document is a draft report from the Florida Blue Ribbon Task Force on State Higher Education Reform. It contains an introduction outlining the task force's focus on accountability, funding, and governance of the state university system. It also includes a summary of the strengths and weaknesses of the current state university system governance structure centered around the Board of Governors. The task force aims to provide recommendations to improve performance and innovation within the university system.
This document contains draft recommendations from a task force regarding tuition and governance at public universities in Florida. It provides background information on declining state support for higher education and restrictions on tuition increases in Florida. The task force recommends abandoning the tuition policy that locks universities into a narrow tuition range. It also recommends giving university boards of trustees more authority over tuition rates and allowing differentiated rates by program. The recommendations aim to provide universities more flexibility to deal with state funding cuts while maintaining affordability.
This document summarizes a journal article about the relationship between public university research and state economic development. It describes potential virtuous and vicious cycles in this relationship. The virtuous cycle involves increased federal research funding leading to more university discoveries, job growth, and increased state tax revenues that fund universities. However, a vicious cycle can also occur if states do not adequately fund universities. This can weaken universities' research competitiveness and the state's long-term economy. It can also exacerbate disparities between states with strong vs. weak university systems.
This document discusses occupational projections in Florida from 2011 to 2019. It includes two tables showing employment counts by education level for 2003, 2011, and 2019. The tables assign educational codes to occupations based on Florida codes and U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics codes. The document also compares projected bachelor's degree production in Florida to projected job openings requiring a bachelor's degree over that period.
This document provides draft talking points to guide a teleconference discussion about implementing a differentiated tuition model. It outlines a three-step plan where universities could gradually increase tuition rates for degrees up to 6 times the Consumer Price Index annual increase. Degrees classified as "eminent," such as those leading to high employment, could have lower tuition increases. The program would be reevaluated after 4 years based on economic factors. If a university's student quality or graduation rates dropped for two years in a row, tuition increases would be capped at the CPI increase until improvements are made.
The document discusses reforms needed for Florida higher education. It argues that (1) Florida already has an effective structure in place and does not need reorganization, (2) restoring state funds cut in recent years is essential to improve student/faculty ratios and access to courses, and (3) additional new funding is needed to address salary compression and retain faculty talent, in order to build a strong knowledge-based economy.
The document is the final report of the Florida Blue Ribbon Task Force on State Higher Education Reform from November 2012. It provides recommendations on accountability, funding, and governance for the Florida State University System. The task force organized their work around these three areas and provided a strengths/weaknesses analysis of the system. They recommend a set of linked accountability, funding, and governance changes intended to improve understanding between universities and funding stakeholders and help the system better demonstrate its value and operational innovation.
The document proposes refinements to the "System Strengths and Weaknesses" section of a report. It lists three strengths: 1) an effective professional staff supports the Board of Governors, 2) local control enables excellent learning environments, and 3) comprehensive coordination allows the Board to manage higher education goals. It also lists three weaknesses: 1) limitations in data analysis inhibit decision making, 2) over-centralization may hinder innovation, and 3) insufficient data assessment of university performance.
The document is a draft report from the Florida Blue Ribbon Task Force on State Higher Education Reform. It contains an introduction outlining the task force's focus on accountability, funding, and governance of the state university system. It also includes a summary of the strengths and weaknesses of the current state university system governance structure centered around the Board of Governors. The task force aims to provide recommendations to improve performance and innovation within the university system.
The document is a draft report from the Florida Blue Ribbon Task Force on State Higher Education Reform. It includes a letter from the chair introducing the task force's work over 6 months to assess the state university system. The draft report contains sections on strengths and weaknesses of the system, and recommendations related to accountability, funding, and governance. It emphasizes the complexity of higher education issues and the need for the university system to improve its standing and contributions to the state.
The document is a draft report from the Florida Blue Ribbon Task Force on State Higher Education Reform. It contains recommendations on accountability, funding, and governance of the state university system. The task force analyzed strengths and weaknesses of the current system and sought to address the complexity of issues facing higher education in Florida. The recommendations are presented as an interconnected whole and are intended to close the gap in understanding between universities and those who appropriate resources by linking accountability, funding, and governance.
The Florida Blue Ribbon Task Force on State Higher Education Reform drafted recommendations to improve accountability and transparency in the state university system. The recommendations included enhancing the Board of Governors' metrics-based accountability framework to focus on outcome-based performance metrics aligned with the governor's strategic goals. These goals include increasing degrees in strategic areas, employment rates and salaries of graduates, and lowering costs. The recommendations also suggested the Board of Governors articulate goals for each university's contributions to the overall system goals, and that universities align their plans with the Board's strategic plan and report progress annually.
This document provides guidance for states on implementing performance funding for higher education institutions. It outlines 11 principles for designing an effective performance funding system, including getting agreement on clear state goals, using metrics that are difficult to manipulate, and ensuring incentives align with goals. The principles are meant to help states avoid pitfalls of prior performance funding attempts and focus institutions on key priorities like increasing degrees and certificates awarded. The document also provides examples from states that have implemented performance funding successfully.
This document provides a technical guide for common college completion metrics adopted by Complete College America. It outlines outcome, progress, and context metrics for measuring degree production, graduation rates, transfer rates, remedial education, credit accumulation, retention, and enrollment at the state level. The purpose is to inform the public and policymakers about college completion, identify areas for improvement, show progress over time, and ensure accountability. Data will be collected uniformly to allow for comparisons across states and institutions.
The document outlines essential steps for states to measure progress and success in college completion. It recommends that states uniformly collect and publicly report data using key metrics like graduation rates, remediation rates, credit accumulation, and time to degree. This will allow states to diagnose challenges, identify opportunities for improvement, and be accountable for students' success. The document suggests states measure interim milestones and outcomes to drive completion, and disaggregate data by student demographics to close achievement gaps.
This document provides a summary and draft recommendations from Florida's Blue Ribbon Task Force on State Higher Education Reform. It catalogs previous recommendations from other reports and outlines draft recommendations in the areas of accountability, funding, and governance. The key recommendations include:
1. Enhancing the Board of Governor's accountability framework to focus on outcome-based metrics like employment rates, degrees in strategic areas, cost per graduate, and graduate salaries.
2. Differentiating tuition rates between universities and programs, with no tuition increases for 3 years for high-skill, high-wage degrees that are important to the state economy.
3. Rewarding "Preeminent Universities" that meet specific metrics with more flexibility in
This document provides a draft summary of recommendations from various efforts addressing reform of Florida's higher education system. It catalogs recommendations in the areas of accountability, funding, and governance. For accountability, it recommends enhancing metrics around outcomes like employment and enhancing alignment between university and state strategic plans. For funding, it discusses balancing access with excellence and tying funding to performance metrics. For governance, it recommends tying decreased regulation and flexibility to achieving strategic plan outcomes.
The document provides notes from a Governor's Blue Ribbon Task Force conference call discussing strategies to address tensions between increasing and decreasing university tuition in Florida. It recommends increasing state funding toward the national average per student and allowing differentiated tuition rates between degree programs. Specific degree programs in strategic state emphasis areas could qualify for lower tuition rates if universities meet metrics agreed upon by the state Legislature and Board of Governors. Universities meeting additional metrics could be designated "Preeminent" with more tuition flexibility and reduced regulation.
The Blue Ribbon Task Force on State Higher Education Reform held a webinar to discuss recommendations on funding, accountability, and governance for state universities. They aimed to refine, improve, accept, table or reject proposed recommendations and identify areas needing further work. Next meeting dates were established to continue discussions and finalize recommendations by October 30th.
The document contains recommendations from working groups on university funding, accountability, and governance. It recommends giving universities more autonomy over tuition rates while tying funding to performance metrics. It also suggests establishing flagship research universities and rewarding programs with high employment outcomes. Additional meetings are scheduled to further refine recommendations for submission to the governor.
This document provides a draft recommendation from a task force on tuition rates at public universities in Florida. It summarizes research showing that state funding for public higher education has declined significantly in recent decades while tuition rates have risen sharply. For Florida universities in particular, state funding has dropped by 25% in four years while tuition rates have remained capped below rates charged by peer institutions in other states. The recommendation suggests removing Florida's system-wide tuition cap and allowing individual universities to set tuition appropriate to their missions and programs.
The chair of the Blue Ribbon Task Force on State Higher Education Reform provides guidance to task force members on next steps. Members are to meet in subcommittees between now and September 17 to develop initial reform options, which will be discussed at a September 21 webinar. The chair outlines a timeline of subsequent meetings and deliverables, culminating in a final set of recommendations voted on at an October 12 webinar. Task force members are instructed to provide data and logic to build a business case for each reform option.
The group discussed strengths within the current system, and worked to define what successful state higher education would look like in 3-5 years. They focused on issues of governance, accountability, funding and the system as a whole, with the goal of developing recommendations to advance the governor's vision.
The three sentence summary is:
The document provides final attachments and a website link for participants of a July 26 workshop to aid in their preparation, noting they should resist arguing for or against the ideas presented and instead focus on innovative solutions; it also looks forward to hearing the participants' own analysis and contributions; and includes three attached files and the name and title of the sender.
This document outlines 10 principles for reforming higher education in the United States. The first principle is to reduce third-party payments and end government subsidies and tax breaks that subsidize higher education costs. This would better align costs with the direct benefits received by students and encourage colleges to reduce costs. Currently, third-party payments have led to soaring costs without improving access or outcomes.
The speaker discusses three "tug-of-wars" in higher education: [1] Funding versus Accountability, noting that increased accountability is needed to obtain more funding; [2] Tuition versus Financial Aid, which are interrelated; and [3] Institutional Independence versus Need for Systemic Governance. Regarding funding versus accountability, the speaker states accountability must be improved for universities to receive more funding from the state government. The speaker also recommends the New Florida Initiative to increase graduates and research with $2 billion in new state funding.
The Higher Education Coordinating Council report provides recommendations to the Florida Legislature, State Board of Education, and Board of Governors on issues related to higher education in Florida. The report is organized into four sections addressing the core mission of institutions, data and performance measures, articulation policies, and workforce education. It includes 85 recommendations organized under seven thematic areas: strategic degree program coordination, capital expansion, student financial aid, funding/performance funding, articulation, data/accountability, and workforce education. Some of the key recommendations include developing a statewide degree program inventory, improving coordination of new programs between sectors, exploring alternative funding for facilities, and aligning financial aid to encourage on-time graduation.
The document outlines a strategic plan for the State University System of Florida from 2012-2025. It was approved on November 10, 2011. The plan discusses the context and challenges facing the university system, including declining state funding. It establishes a mission and vision for the system to better serve Florida's economic and workforce needs through 2025. Goals are outlined to improve access, affordability, graduation rates, research funding, and facilities funding over the next 13 years.
The email is inviting confirmed participants to a July 26 meeting of the Blue Ribbon Task Force on State Higher Education Reform. It provides the agenda and reading materials to prepare participants for collaborative discussions. The meeting will bring together over 70 participants with different views to generate consensus recommendations in three categories - accountability, governance, and funding - to position state universities for success. Participants are advised to approach the discussions with an open mind, seeking first to understand others and find win-win solutions while keeping the ultimate goal of state university success in mind.
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The document is a draft report from the Florida Blue Ribbon Task Force on State Higher Education Reform. It includes a letter from the chair introducing the task force's work over 6 months to assess the state university system. The draft report contains sections on strengths and weaknesses of the system, and recommendations related to accountability, funding, and governance. It emphasizes the complexity of higher education issues and the need for the university system to improve its standing and contributions to the state.
The document is a draft report from the Florida Blue Ribbon Task Force on State Higher Education Reform. It contains recommendations on accountability, funding, and governance of the state university system. The task force analyzed strengths and weaknesses of the current system and sought to address the complexity of issues facing higher education in Florida. The recommendations are presented as an interconnected whole and are intended to close the gap in understanding between universities and those who appropriate resources by linking accountability, funding, and governance.
The Florida Blue Ribbon Task Force on State Higher Education Reform drafted recommendations to improve accountability and transparency in the state university system. The recommendations included enhancing the Board of Governors' metrics-based accountability framework to focus on outcome-based performance metrics aligned with the governor's strategic goals. These goals include increasing degrees in strategic areas, employment rates and salaries of graduates, and lowering costs. The recommendations also suggested the Board of Governors articulate goals for each university's contributions to the overall system goals, and that universities align their plans with the Board's strategic plan and report progress annually.
This document provides guidance for states on implementing performance funding for higher education institutions. It outlines 11 principles for designing an effective performance funding system, including getting agreement on clear state goals, using metrics that are difficult to manipulate, and ensuring incentives align with goals. The principles are meant to help states avoid pitfalls of prior performance funding attempts and focus institutions on key priorities like increasing degrees and certificates awarded. The document also provides examples from states that have implemented performance funding successfully.
This document provides a technical guide for common college completion metrics adopted by Complete College America. It outlines outcome, progress, and context metrics for measuring degree production, graduation rates, transfer rates, remedial education, credit accumulation, retention, and enrollment at the state level. The purpose is to inform the public and policymakers about college completion, identify areas for improvement, show progress over time, and ensure accountability. Data will be collected uniformly to allow for comparisons across states and institutions.
The document outlines essential steps for states to measure progress and success in college completion. It recommends that states uniformly collect and publicly report data using key metrics like graduation rates, remediation rates, credit accumulation, and time to degree. This will allow states to diagnose challenges, identify opportunities for improvement, and be accountable for students' success. The document suggests states measure interim milestones and outcomes to drive completion, and disaggregate data by student demographics to close achievement gaps.
This document provides a summary and draft recommendations from Florida's Blue Ribbon Task Force on State Higher Education Reform. It catalogs previous recommendations from other reports and outlines draft recommendations in the areas of accountability, funding, and governance. The key recommendations include:
1. Enhancing the Board of Governor's accountability framework to focus on outcome-based metrics like employment rates, degrees in strategic areas, cost per graduate, and graduate salaries.
2. Differentiating tuition rates between universities and programs, with no tuition increases for 3 years for high-skill, high-wage degrees that are important to the state economy.
3. Rewarding "Preeminent Universities" that meet specific metrics with more flexibility in
This document provides a draft summary of recommendations from various efforts addressing reform of Florida's higher education system. It catalogs recommendations in the areas of accountability, funding, and governance. For accountability, it recommends enhancing metrics around outcomes like employment and enhancing alignment between university and state strategic plans. For funding, it discusses balancing access with excellence and tying funding to performance metrics. For governance, it recommends tying decreased regulation and flexibility to achieving strategic plan outcomes.
The document provides notes from a Governor's Blue Ribbon Task Force conference call discussing strategies to address tensions between increasing and decreasing university tuition in Florida. It recommends increasing state funding toward the national average per student and allowing differentiated tuition rates between degree programs. Specific degree programs in strategic state emphasis areas could qualify for lower tuition rates if universities meet metrics agreed upon by the state Legislature and Board of Governors. Universities meeting additional metrics could be designated "Preeminent" with more tuition flexibility and reduced regulation.
The Blue Ribbon Task Force on State Higher Education Reform held a webinar to discuss recommendations on funding, accountability, and governance for state universities. They aimed to refine, improve, accept, table or reject proposed recommendations and identify areas needing further work. Next meeting dates were established to continue discussions and finalize recommendations by October 30th.
The document contains recommendations from working groups on university funding, accountability, and governance. It recommends giving universities more autonomy over tuition rates while tying funding to performance metrics. It also suggests establishing flagship research universities and rewarding programs with high employment outcomes. Additional meetings are scheduled to further refine recommendations for submission to the governor.
This document provides a draft recommendation from a task force on tuition rates at public universities in Florida. It summarizes research showing that state funding for public higher education has declined significantly in recent decades while tuition rates have risen sharply. For Florida universities in particular, state funding has dropped by 25% in four years while tuition rates have remained capped below rates charged by peer institutions in other states. The recommendation suggests removing Florida's system-wide tuition cap and allowing individual universities to set tuition appropriate to their missions and programs.
The chair of the Blue Ribbon Task Force on State Higher Education Reform provides guidance to task force members on next steps. Members are to meet in subcommittees between now and September 17 to develop initial reform options, which will be discussed at a September 21 webinar. The chair outlines a timeline of subsequent meetings and deliverables, culminating in a final set of recommendations voted on at an October 12 webinar. Task force members are instructed to provide data and logic to build a business case for each reform option.
The group discussed strengths within the current system, and worked to define what successful state higher education would look like in 3-5 years. They focused on issues of governance, accountability, funding and the system as a whole, with the goal of developing recommendations to advance the governor's vision.
The three sentence summary is:
The document provides final attachments and a website link for participants of a July 26 workshop to aid in their preparation, noting they should resist arguing for or against the ideas presented and instead focus on innovative solutions; it also looks forward to hearing the participants' own analysis and contributions; and includes three attached files and the name and title of the sender.
This document outlines 10 principles for reforming higher education in the United States. The first principle is to reduce third-party payments and end government subsidies and tax breaks that subsidize higher education costs. This would better align costs with the direct benefits received by students and encourage colleges to reduce costs. Currently, third-party payments have led to soaring costs without improving access or outcomes.
The speaker discusses three "tug-of-wars" in higher education: [1] Funding versus Accountability, noting that increased accountability is needed to obtain more funding; [2] Tuition versus Financial Aid, which are interrelated; and [3] Institutional Independence versus Need for Systemic Governance. Regarding funding versus accountability, the speaker states accountability must be improved for universities to receive more funding from the state government. The speaker also recommends the New Florida Initiative to increase graduates and research with $2 billion in new state funding.
The Higher Education Coordinating Council report provides recommendations to the Florida Legislature, State Board of Education, and Board of Governors on issues related to higher education in Florida. The report is organized into four sections addressing the core mission of institutions, data and performance measures, articulation policies, and workforce education. It includes 85 recommendations organized under seven thematic areas: strategic degree program coordination, capital expansion, student financial aid, funding/performance funding, articulation, data/accountability, and workforce education. Some of the key recommendations include developing a statewide degree program inventory, improving coordination of new programs between sectors, exploring alternative funding for facilities, and aligning financial aid to encourage on-time graduation.
The document outlines a strategic plan for the State University System of Florida from 2012-2025. It was approved on November 10, 2011. The plan discusses the context and challenges facing the university system, including declining state funding. It establishes a mission and vision for the system to better serve Florida's economic and workforce needs through 2025. Goals are outlined to improve access, affordability, graduation rates, research funding, and facilities funding over the next 13 years.
The email is inviting confirmed participants to a July 26 meeting of the Blue Ribbon Task Force on State Higher Education Reform. It provides the agenda and reading materials to prepare participants for collaborative discussions. The meeting will bring together over 70 participants with different views to generate consensus recommendations in three categories - accountability, governance, and funding - to position state universities for success. Participants are advised to approach the discussions with an open mind, seeking first to understand others and find win-win solutions while keeping the ultimate goal of state university success in mind.
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