LAC Event Information & Materials

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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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

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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