Posts Tagged: degree attainment

Doing Good and Doing Well: Performance-Based Funding in Higher Ed

Posted March 31st, 2011 by Shoshana Akins & filed under Economy, Financing, NEJHE Archives, Newslink, Students, Trends.

The New England Board of Higher Education released a policy brief that encourages states to tie a portion of higher education appropriations to institutional outcomes. Currently, New England states tend to apportion institutional funding based on enrollment levels—a practice that rewards quantity, but not necessarily student success and degree attainment. From President Obama to private fou...

New England 2025: NEBHE Launches College-Completion Dashboards

Posted March 1st, 2011 by NEBHE Admin & filed under Newslink, Newslink Topic, Newslink Type.

NEBHE launched the first phase of its college-completion project, New England 2025.Supported with a Lumina Foundation grant and the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems, NEBHE's Department of Policy and Research built a series of state-level "dashboards" and models that can examine college completion and various metrics with new levels of sophistication.These models allow decisi...

College Attainment: Throwing a Complete Game

Posted July 26th, 2010 by Shoshana Akins & filed under Journal Type, The Journal, Topic.

The U.S. once had the world’s highest percentage of adults with a college degree, but has now dropped to 10th, according to the OECD. In an attempt to reverse this slide, a number of policymakers and foundations have sought to make increased degree attainment a national priority. President Obama has articulated the goal that America will regain the world’s highest rate of degree attain...