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Institute for Higher Education
Leadership & Policy (IHELP)
IHELP conducts research and applies knowledge and evidence to produce actionable recommendations to improve policy, practice, and leadership for postsecondary readiness and success. Our research, evaluation, technical assistance, policy development, and other services inform policy makers, practitioners, and educators. We focus on educational institutions that serve diverse populations whose education is vital for individual success, a healthy society, and a globally competitive economy. IHELP is a non-profit organization funded privately through grants and contracts.
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NEW!! Metrics, Dollars, and Systems Change: Learning From Washington State's Student Achievement Initiative to Design Effective Postsecondary Performance Funding Policies
March 2013
This brief, jointly produced by IHELP and the Community College Research Center (CCRC) at Columbia University, examines the development and implementation of the Washington State Student Achievement Initiative (SAI), a policy adopted by the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges that draws on intermediate measures of student progress to reward colleges for improvements in student achievement. This brief, based on findings from a three-year evaluation, offers lessons for leaders in states looking to design performance funding policies for community colleges. The brief offers recommendations for several design principles for an effective performance funding system including designing a useful and relevant system of performance metrics, linking performance to budgets (baseline funding rather piecemeal funding from allocated funds), and supporting college environmental conditions through more strategic communication and emphasis on institutional research to produce systemic institutional change.
NEW!! Career Opportunities: Career Technical Education and the College Completion Agenda - Part IV: Aligning Policy with Mission for Better Outcomes
March 2013
This new IHELP report is the culmination of a four-part series on career technical education in the California Community Colleges. The project, funded by The James Irvine Foundation, is aimed at identifying ways that state and system policy can best support the CTE mission so that colleges can be more effective in helping students earn credentials of value in the workplace and helping employers and industries in their regions obtain a skilled workforce. Based on a comprehensive analysis of potential barriers to more effective CTE, researchers offer a set of suggestions for policy changes intended as a resource for the community college system as it continues to work to improve student success.
State and System Policies Related to Career Technical Education: Faculty Issues - a Working Paper
February 2013
This IHELP working paper examines policies that relate to CTE faculty issues in the California Community Colleges. There are numerous state policies and regulations that govern employment of faculty and the use of faculty resources in the community colleges,
including those related to minimum qualifications, the rights of faculty employees, professional development, and calculation and compensation of faculty workload. Generally, these policies apply across the board to faculty in CTE and in the liberal arts and sciences. The question raised in this paper is whether CTE faculty roles, responsibilities, and circumstances differ sufficiently from those of liberal arts and sciences faculty to warrant different policies.
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In the Education
Policy Community
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Student Success in the
California Community Colleges:
Performance, Policy, and Practice
April 4, 2013, San Gabriel Foothill Association of Community Colleges
Redeeming For-Profit Colleges and Universities: How Public Policy Can Ensure Quality and Success
March 15, 2013,
Association for Education Finance and Policy Conference
Where does the lottery money go? Dr. Su Jin Jez on KTLK Radio program "Speak and Be Heard"
March 2, 2013, Episode 6 part 2,
1:01:40
Performance Gaps and Policy Responses
in California Higher Education:
The Context for Next Steps
Presented to the African American Male Education Network and Development (A2MEND) Summit, March 7, 2013
Key Issues Facing California
Higher Education
Presented to Assembly Committee on Higher Education, February 19, 2013
On Balance: Case Study of Effective Coordination: Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges An Organizational Perspective
Presented to SBCTC, February 6, 2013
Enhancing Community College
Career Pathways Through Policy Change
Presented at
University of California, Davis, January 11, 2013
Enhancing Community College
Career Pathways Through Policy Change
Presented at the Campaign for College Opportunity's Capitol Briefing,
November 13, 2012
Career Technical Education and the College Completion Agenda
Presented at the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education's Legislative Advisory Committee meeting, September 11, 2012
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In the News
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New scorecards show challenges for state’s community colleges
EdSource, April 10, 2013
Associate Degree for Transfer program aids CSU
San Francisco Chronicle, February 20, 2013
Teach for America’s hidden curriculum
Salon, February 17, 2013
Study examines California Latino students' involvement in higher education
Hispanically Speaking News, March 16, 2012
California Community Colleges look for new leader amid deep challenges
Inside Higher Ed, March 14, 2012
Rationalizing Rationing:
California schools may need to do less with less
University Business, February 2012
Students can't get passed math
Thoughts on Public Education, February 10, 2012
California community colleges prepare to ration their offerings
Sacramento Bee, January 29, 2012
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IHELP Newsletters
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April 2013
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