April 10, 2006

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Texas Higher Education Law Conference
April 10, 2006 1215-130 p.m. Gateway Center
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Higher Education in Transition
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HIGHER EDUCATION

• LOST IN TRANSITION

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Two Books

• Newman, Frank, Lara Couturier and Jamie Scurry,
  The Future of Higher EducationRhetoric, Reality
  and the Risks of the Market, Jossey-Bass, 2004.
• Zemsky, Robert, Gregory R. Wegner and William F.
  Massy, Remaking the American UniversityMarket-Sm
  art and Mission-Centered, Rutgers University
  Press, 2005.

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Transition

• World Trends
• US Trends
• Higher Educations Compact with America
• US Report Card
• Texas Trends

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World Trends

• Massification
• Knowledge Economy
• Globalization
• Competition

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World Trends

• Half the world population is under 20
• 1.7m people are being educated outside their home
  countries 3.4m by 2015
• US captures 28 of the market
• DOWN from 40

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World Trends

• The nature of Higher Education
• Just in Case vs. Just in Time
• Search Engines
• Collaboration (listserve, blogs, wikis, virtual
  conferences)
• Sequential age-based or seat-time learning is
  being eliminated or significantly reduced

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US Trends

• Changing Role of Higher Education
• Federal Funding
• State Funding
• Public vs. Private Good
• Rise of Markets

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US Trends

• Higher Public Education Compact with America
• OPPORTUNITY

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US Report Card

• Shanaghais Jiao Tong University ranks the
  worlds universities
• 17 of the top 20 are American
• 35 of the top 50 are American

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US Report Card

• American Universities
• Employ 70 of the Nobel prize-winners
• Produce 30 of the worlds science and
  engineering articles
• Produce 44 of the most frequently cited articles

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US Report Card

• A person from the top quartile of family income
  is 9 times more likely to earn a bachelors
  degree by age 24 than is a person from the bottom
  quartile of family income.

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US Report Card

• Since 1977, the change in bachelors degree
  attainment rate by age 24 is
• Up 30 percent for a person from the top quartile
  of family income
• Up .03 percent for a person from the bottom
  quartile family income

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US Report Card

• Undergraduate completion rates by age 29
• White, Non Hispanic 54.6
• Black, Non Hispanic 33.8
• Hispanic 25.8

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US Report Card

• Adults 25-35
• US ranks 9th in high school degrees
• US ranks 7th in college degrees

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US Report Card

• The rate of tuition increases is about 3 times
  the increase in the underlying rate of inflation

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Texas Higher EducationCoordinating Board

• Closing the Gaps
• Access
• Success
• Excellence
• Research

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Texas Higher EducationCoordinating Board

• Classification of Institutions
• Research 2
• Emerging Research 7
• Doctoral 6
• Comprehensive 8
• Masters 12

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Texas Higher Education

• Governor and Coordinating Boards Accountability
  System
• Access
• Success
• Excellence
• Research
• Institutional Effectiveness and Efficiencies

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Texas Higher Education

• Governor and Coordinating Boards Accountability
  System
• 23 Key Accountability measures
• 10 have targets
• 30 Contextual/Explanatory Measures

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Key Measures Participation

• 1. Enrollment
• Number and percentage of all students enrolled on
  12th class day
• Undergraduate Masters, Doctoral, Professional
  Student
• Disaggregated by Gender, Ethnicity, Age and Level
• Total Enrollment Increase
• Black Enrollment Increase
• Hispanic Enrollment Increase

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Key Measures Participation, cont.

• 2. FTE Enrollment
• Number and percentage of students enrolled
• Undergraduate Graduate and Professional
• Disaggregated by Gender, Ethnicity and Age
• Total FTE Enrollment Increase
• Black FTE Enrollment Increase
• Hispanic FTE Enrollment Increase

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Key Measures Success

• 3. Graduation Rates
• Four, five and six-year graduation rate of
  first-time, full-time degree seeking
  undergraduates by ethnicity
• Four-Year
• Five-Year
• Six-Year

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Key Measures Success, cont.

• 4. Graduates
• Number of graduates by level and race/ethnicity
  and gender
• Total Degrees
• Blacks
• Hispanics

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Key Measures Excellence

• 5. Percent lower division SCH taught by
• tenure/tenure-track faculty
• 6. FTE student/FTE faculty ratio

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Key Measures Research

• 7. FTE Faculty
• Ratio of federal research expenditures to all FTE
  tenured/tenure-track faculty
• 8. Research Expenditures

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Key Measures Institutional Efficiencies and
Effectiveness

• 9. Administrative Costs
• Amount expended for administrative costs as a
  percent of operating budget

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Key Measures Institutional Efficiencies and
Effectiveness, cont.

• 10. Facilities
• Space utilization rate of classrooms and labs
• Classroom utilization
• Lab utilization

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Texas Higher Education

• Governor and Coordinating Boards Accountability
  System
• Web Based System
• www.thecb.state.tx.us/Accountability
• Available to public consumer
• Reports to Regents and Legislature

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Texas Higher Education

• Texas Legislature Tuition
• Deregulation
• Block Tuition
• Incentive Pricing e.g., time of day
• Differential Pricing by Major

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Implications forTexas Higher Education

• Students as Customers-in the Higher Education
  Market Place
• Convenience
• Cost
• Services
• Learning and Social Environment
• Learning Styles
• Relationships Mentors and Friends
• Job Placement
• Co-Op/Internships

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Texas Higher Education Law Conference
April 10, 2006 1215-130 p.m. Gateway Center