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2023

March 13

NEBHE LAC March 2023 Agenda

NEBHE LAC March 2023-Panel Questions & Audience Prompts

NEBHE LAC March 2023-Advanced Readings

Selected Advanced Readings:

• How Community Colleges and Workforce Development Programs go Hand-in-Hand
• Workforce Development…tops list of state higher ed leaders’ concerns (SHEEO)
• Beyond STEM: Educating a Workforce of Thinkers and Doers

2022

September 22

At The Simsbury Inn, Simsbury CT

Please click below to view and download these materials from the meeting:

The Fall 2022 Meeting Agenda

Fall 2022 Legislative Highlights

Selected Advanced Readings:

•  U.S. Education secretary, college leaders want colleges to stop holding transcripts over unpaid balances
•  Solving Stranded Credits – A research study by Ithaka S+R
•  AACRAO and NACUBO Issue Statement on Holds
• Students, advocates applaud new law that bans withholding transcripts over debt | Maine Beacon

March 14

At Lasell University, Newton MA and via Zoom Video Conference

Watch the video of the entire LAC morning session:

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Spring 2022 Legislative Session Summary

Doing the Most With the Least: Presentation by Rachael Conway and Sheridan Miller

Meeting Resources:

• Spring 2022 LAC Meeting Agenda
• Quick Facts: Community Colleges and the Pandemic
• The HOPE Center for College, Community, and Justice #RealCollege 2021 Survey One-Pager
• Center for Community College Student Engagement COVID Survey
• Remarks on How the Pandemic has Affected Community Colleges by Bunker Hill Community College President Pam Eddinger
• Preliminary Data on 2021 Undergraduate Enrollments from the National Student Clearinghouse

2021

September 15

Via Video Conference

Here is a video of the complete webinar:

Sheridan Miller’s Slide Deck: Higher Education Programs for Incarcerated People in New England

LAC_Fall 2021 Agenda

2021 Legislative Session Summaries, Fall Edition

Meeting Resources:

• Higher Education Behind Bars: Expanding Postsecondary Educational Programs in New England Prisons and Jails, Sheridan Miller (2020)
• A Piece of the Puzzle: State Financial Aid for Incarcerated Students, Vera Institute of Justice (2019)
• MIT The Educational Justice Institute, Executive Summary

March 19

Via Video Conference

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Agenda

2021 Legislative Session Summaries, Spring Edition

Meeting materials

Slide Decks:

• Restarting and Reinventing School: Learning in the Time of COVID and Beyond, Dr. Monica Martinez
• K-12 In-Person Learning in Rhode Island for School Year 2020-21, Commissioner Angélica Infante-Green
• Counteracting the COVID-19 Slide for Postsecondary Transitions: Immediate Actions to Support Access and Success, Ryan Reyna

Additional Resources:

• EdResearch for Recovery, Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University
• COVID-19 and Student Learning in the United States: The Hurt Could Last a Lifetime, McKinsey & Company
• School Districts’ Responses to COVID-19, CRPE
• The Value of Out-of-School Time Programs, Wallace
• Community Schools Playbook, Learning Policy Institute
• March 16th LEAP Task Force Meeting
• Trends in 2021 State of the State Addresses: Student Achievement and Learning Loss (extract), National Governors Association
• The COVID-19 Slide: What Summer Learning Loss Can Tell Us About the Potential Impact of Closures on Student Academic Achievement, NWEA
• Free Summer Classes Available for High School Students and Incoming First-Year Students from Maine, Maine Community Colleges

General NEBHE Materials: Our Recent Work

• A Reparative Justice Framework for Advancing Faculty Equity & NEBHE’S North Star Collective, Prepared for the NEBHE Board of Delegates Spring Meeting (March 15, 2021)
• Indicators of Postsecondary Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in New England (November 2020)
• Higher Education Behind Bars: Expanding Post-Secondary Educational Programs in New England Prisons and Jails (January 2021)

2020

September 22

Via Video Conference

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Agenda

2020 Legislative Session Summaries, Fall Edition

Meeting materials:

Economic Recovery Amid Uncertainty: Transitional Workforce Strategies State Governments Can Implement to Stimulate Job Creation and Growth

Primary Materials:

• An Approach to Predicting Regional Labor Market Effects of Economic Shocks: The COVID-19 Pandemic in New England, Osborne Jackson, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

• Predicting unemployment in the pandemic, Osborne Jackson

• Livia Lam’s PowerPoint slides
  • Workforce equity initiative in 10 regions (Policylink and National Fund for Workforce Solutions)
  • Equality indicators (CUNY Institute for state and local governance)
  • Levy Institute measure of economic well-being (Bard College)
  • Job Quality Index
  • Urban Institute Framework
  • CAP job quality and workforce development essay

Secondary Materials

• Tracking the economic impact of COVID-19 in Maine, Maine Center for Economic Policy

• The COVID-19 Crisis in New Hampshire: Initial Economic Impacts and Policy Responses, New Hampshire Fiscal Policy Institute

• Scarring Body and Mind: The Long-Term Belief-Scarring Effects of COVID-19, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

• State Policy COVID-19 Response Toolkit, Molly Bashay, National Skills Coalition

All Learning Counts-New England Project Update

• All Learning Counts Project Update Slide Deck
• Recognizing Prior Learning in the Covid-19 Era: Helping Displaced Workers and Students One Credit at a Time
• Learning Recognition and the Future of Higher Education –A Vision for a Post-Pandemic Learning Ecosystem

July 23

Ad Hoc Meeting on Limited Liability Protection for Higher Education

Via Video Conference

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Video of meeting (click image below):

Agenda

Slide Deck

Limited Liability Protection Materials:

• Governors’ Letter to Congress on Liability Protection (July 21, 2020)
• American Council on Education Letter to Senate HELP Committee
• People’s Parity Project Letter to Senate HELP Committee
• Washington Post Opinion, “A shield from lawsuits could help our schools resume teaching and research”
• Draft of Federal Liability Overhaul
• Massachusetts HB-4659
• Immunity Legislation: Massachusetts’ Perspective
• NEBHE Tracking: State-Level Covid-related Liability Protection (updated regularly)

March 16

Expanding Work-Based Learning Opportunities in New England

Via Video Conference

Audio of meeting:

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Agenda

Speaker Bios

Legislative Session Summary, Spring Edition

(New England and federal legislation proposed in 2020)

Work-Based Learning Session Materials:

• • Summary of work-based learning policies in New England

• • Presentation by Chancellor Ross Gittell
  • Presentation by Alyssa Alvarado, Real Jobs Rhode Island
  • Presentation by Theresa Rowland, Commonwealth Corporation
    • Workforce Training Fund: Who Do We Serve?
    • Workforce Training Fund: Program Impact Highlights
    • Workforce Training Fund Grant Menu

Session on NEBHE’s All Learning Counts Project:

• • Presentation by Candace Williams

2019

September 26

The Adult Learner

Woodstock Inn | Woodstock, VT

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• Agenda
• Presentations:
  • National Perspective by Goldie Blumenstyk, Chronicle of Higher Education
  • Indiana’s Next Level Jobs by Josh Garrison, Indiana Commission for Higher Education
    • one-pager #1
    • one-pager #2
  • Tennessee Reconnect by Dr. Emily House, Tennessee Higher Education Commission
    • one-pager
  • Discussion Notes
• New England Adult Learner Fact Sheet
• County Fact Sheets (Counties Represented by LAC members):
  • CT: Hartford, New Haven, Tolland, Windham
  • ME: Androscoggin, Aroostook, Cumberland, Kennebec, Oxford, Somerset
  • MA: Bristol, Middlesex, Norfolk
  • NH: Belknap, Cheshire, Strafford
  • RI: Kent, Newport, Providence
  • VT: Addison, Bennington, Chittenden
• Legislative Session Summaries

March 11

Remedial Education Reform

Lasell College | Newton, MA

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• Agenda
• Presentations:
  • Reforming Remedial Education is Gaining Traction
    • Angela Boatman, Vanderbilt University
    • Michael Stefanowicz, Connecticut State Colleges and Universities
    • Elena Quiroz-Livanis, Massachusetts Department of Higher Education
  • Student Transfer in New England: Are We Making Progress?
    • Emily Decatur and Stafford Peat, NEBHE
    • NEBHE Policy Spotlight: “Student Transfer in New England: Are We Making Progress?”
• Legislative Summaries

2018

September 27

Mitigating Cost Drivers in Higher Education

Mill Falls at the Lake | Meredith, NH

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• Agenda
• Presentations:
  • Mitigating Cost Drivers in Higher Education
    • Dennis Jones, National Center for Higher Education Management Systems
  • NEBHE’s High Value Credentials for New England
    • Candace Williams and Stephanie Murphy, NEBHE
    • High Value Credentials one-pager
    • High Value Credentials home page
• Legislative Summaries

March 26
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, MA

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• Agenda
• Presentations:
  • NEBHE’s Commission on Employability
• Legislative Summaries

2019

September 26

The Adult Learner

Woodstock Inn | Woodstock, VT

Click for:

• Agenda
• Presentations:
  • National Perspective by Goldie Blumenstyk, Chronicle of Higher Education
  • Indiana’s Next Level Jobs by Josh Garrison, Indiana Commission for Higher Education
    • one-pager #1
    • one-pager #2
  • Tennessee Reconnect by Dr. Emily House, Tennessee Higher Education Commission
    • one-pager
  • Discussion Notes
• New England Adult Learner Fact Sheet
• County Fact Sheets (Counties Represented by LAC members):
  • CT: Hartford, New Haven, Tolland, Windham
  • ME: Androscoggin, Aroostook, Cumberland, Kennebec, Oxford, Somerset
  • MA: Bristol, Middlesex, Norfolk
  • NH: Belknap, Cheshire, Strafford
  • RI: Kent, Newport, Providence
  • VT: Addison, Bennington, Chittenden
• Legislative Session Summaries

March 11

Remedial Education Reform

Lasell College | Newton, MA

Click for:

• Agenda
• Presentations:
  • Reforming Remedial Education is Gaining Traction
    • Angela Boatman, Vanderbilt University
    • Michael Stefanowicz, Connecticut State Colleges and Universities
    • Elena Quiroz-Livanis, Massachusetts Department of Higher Education
  • Student Transfer in New England: Are We Making Progress?
    • Emily Decatur and Stafford Peat, NEBHE
    • NEBHE Policy Spotlight: “Student Transfer in New England: Are We Making Progress?”
• Legislative Summaries

2018

September 27

Mitigating Cost Drivers in Higher Education

Mill Falls at the Lake | Meredith, NH

Click for:

• Agenda
• Presentations:
  • Mitigating Cost Drivers in Higher Education
    • Dennis Jones, National Center for Higher Education Management Systems
  • NEBHE’s High Value Credentials for New England
    • Candace Williams and Stephanie Murphy, NEBHE
    • High Value Credentials one-pager
    • High Value Credentials home page
• Legislative Summaries

March 26
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, MA

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• Agenda
• Presentations:
  • NEBHE’s Commission on Employability
• Legislative Summaries

2018

September 27

Mitigating Cost Drivers in Higher Education

Mill Falls at the Lake | Meredith, NH

Click for:

• Agenda
• Presentations:
  • Mitigating Cost Drivers in Higher Education
    • Dennis Jones, National Center for Higher Education Management Systems
  • NEBHE’s High Value Credentials for New England
    • Candace Williams and Stephanie Murphy, NEBHE
    • High Value Credentials one-pager
    • High Value Credentials home page
• Legislative Summaries

March 26
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, MA

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• Agenda
• Presentations:
  • NEBHE’s Commission on Employability
• Legislative Summaries