LAC Event Information & Materials

2020

March 16
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
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
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
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