Wednesday, December 14, 2011
The Aspen Prize -- One Million Dollars Awarded to Community Colleges
Valencia College, Florida takes top honors of the first offering of the Aspen Prize as reported in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
http://chronicle.com/article/Valencia-College-Wins-First/130091/?sid=cc&utm_source=cc&utm_medium=en (This link requires authentication for off-campus use.)
As noted on the Aspen Institute website: "The purpose of the Aspen Prize is to recognize community colleges with outstanding academic and workforce outcomes in both absolute performance and improvements over time. By focusing on student success and lifting up models that work, the Aspen Prize will honor excellence, stimulate innovation, and create benchmarks for measuring progress." This link further describes the prize:
http://www.aspeninstitute.org/policy-work/aspen-prize/about
The Aspen Institute website has profiles of the ten finalists selected for the total million dollar prize. Each profile highlights a strategy that focuses on reducing the risk for at-risk students, mainly in developmental education, but quite a few in career/technical programs and industry partnerships.
http://www.aspeninstitute.org/policy-work/aspen-prize/finalists
A total of 120 eligible colleges were selected during the competition using an analytic model drawn from IPEDS data described below. You can see the data dashboards in the pdf version of the Round 1 Model Description. Sad to say, no colleges in New Jersey were deemed eligible.
http://www.aspeninstitute.org/policy-work/aspen-prize/eligibleinstitutions
The evaluative rubric used gives shows the criteria deemed important by the Aspen Institute: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/27262972/Round%20One%20Model%20Description.pdf
http://chronicle.com/article/Valencia-College-Wins-First/130091/?sid=cc&utm_source=cc&utm_medium=en (This link requires authentication for off-campus use.)
As noted on the Aspen Institute website: "The purpose of the Aspen Prize is to recognize community colleges with outstanding academic and workforce outcomes in both absolute performance and improvements over time. By focusing on student success and lifting up models that work, the Aspen Prize will honor excellence, stimulate innovation, and create benchmarks for measuring progress." This link further describes the prize:
http://www.aspeninstitute.org/policy-work/aspen-prize/about
The Aspen Institute website has profiles of the ten finalists selected for the total million dollar prize. Each profile highlights a strategy that focuses on reducing the risk for at-risk students, mainly in developmental education, but quite a few in career/technical programs and industry partnerships.
http://www.aspeninstitute.org/policy-work/aspen-prize/finalists
A total of 120 eligible colleges were selected during the competition using an analytic model drawn from IPEDS data described below. You can see the data dashboards in the pdf version of the Round 1 Model Description. Sad to say, no colleges in New Jersey were deemed eligible.
http://www.aspeninstitute.org/policy-work/aspen-prize/eligibleinstitutions
The evaluative rubric used gives shows the criteria deemed important by the Aspen Institute: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/27262972/Round%20One%20Model%20Description.pdf
Thursday, December 8, 2011
NJ Stars Program
Below is a link to the latest information on the status of the New Jersey STARS Program. The article namely aims at the proposed changes.
http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/breaking/new-jersey-stars-program-proposes-changes-to-continue-college-aid/article_31d5f736-1faa-11e1-9a93-001871e3ce6c.html
http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/breaking/new-jersey-stars-program-proposes-changes-to-continue-college-aid/article_31d5f736-1faa-11e1-9a93-001871e3ce6c.html
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Measures of Student Success
The Voluntary Framework of Accountability is the first national system of accountability specifically FOR community colleges and BY community colleges.
Below find a link to the VFA website, which contains a very important draft report and summary of success measures from the U.S. Dept. of Education’s Committee on Measures of Student Success. IPEC encourages you to read the entire report.
http://www.aacc.nche.edu/Resources/aaccprograms/vfa/Pages/default.aspx
Below find a link to the VFA website, which contains a very important draft report and summary of success measures from the U.S. Dept. of Education’s Committee on Measures of Student Success. IPEC encourages you to read the entire report.
http://www.aacc.nche.edu/Resources/aaccprograms/vfa/Pages/default.aspx
Obama Meets with Higher Education Leaders
Below is a link to an article from Inside Higher Education that describes President Obama’s recent meeting with a small group of higher education leaders. Note the apparent shift in focus from increasing aid to affordability, cost, and productivity.
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/12/06/obama-meeting-focuses-cost-affordability-productivity
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/12/06/obama-meeting-focuses-cost-affordability-productivity
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