Government Relations 101 Mary Jane Michalak & Matt Hawkins

1. Government Relations 101 Mary Jane Michalak & Matt Hawkins

2. Overview • What is “Government Relations” at Ivy Tech? • Job responsibilities • Audience • Congress • Indiana General Assembly • State Educational Institutions • Indiana Commission for Higher Education • State Higher Education Appropriations • State Performance Funding Formula Our Communities. Your College. Pathways for Student Success and a Stronger Indiana.

3. Government Relations • “Plan and execute a comprehensive, proactive government affairs strategy that advances the College’s mission and goals with local, regional, state and federal elected officials.” • Build and strengthen relationships with elected officials and government agencies. • With College leadership, plans legislative priorities. • Serve as the lead contact to the General Assembly. • Monitors legislation and policy activities, updates and advises College leadership. • Coordinate college’s participation in meetings with state agencies. • Develops materials in support of government relations agenda. • Collaborate with counterparts at other state educational institutions. • Coordinate involvement in federal issues. • Track and prepare activity reports for the Indiana Lobby Registration Commission. • Serve a liaison with the State Board of Trustees Our Communities. Your College. Pathways for Student Success and a Stronger Indiana.

4. Government Relations • Federal Relations • Congressional Leaders • AACC • State Relations • Governor’s Office • Commission for Higher Education • Department of Workforce Development • Indiana Department of Education • Indiana Economic Development Corporation • State Educational Institutions • Independent Colleges of Indiana • State legislators (Indiana General Assembly) • Association Relations • Local Government Relations Our Communities. Your College. Pathways for Student Success and a Stronger Indiana.

5. Congress • Senate members • Donnelly (D)** • Young (R) • ** up for re-election • Committees • House • 20 Standing, 1 Select • Senate • 16 Standing • 67 Subcommittees • 5 Nonstanding • House members • Visclosky (D) • Walorski (R) • Banks (R) • Rokita(R)* • Brooks (R) • Messer (R)* • Carson (D) • Bucshon (R) • Hollingsworth (R) • *Running for Senate Our Communities. Your College. Pathways for Student Success and a Stronger Indiana.

6. Indiana General Assembly • 150 legislators (100 in House; 50 in Senate) • “Session” • Odd-numbered years = “Budget Session” • January – April 30 • Even-numbered years = “Short Session” • January – March 14 • “Special Session” – called by the Governor • By the numbers – 2018 Short Session • 901 introduced • 212 (23%) of bills introduced made it to Governor’s desk Our Communities. Your College. Pathways for Student Success and a Stronger Indiana.

7. Committees • 25 House Committees; 23 Senate Committees • House Ways and Means • 24 members – 16 Republican, 8 Democrat • House Education • 13 members – 9 Republican, 4 Democrat • Senate Appropriations • 15 members – 11 Republican, 4 Democrat • Senate Education and Career Development • 11 members – 8 Republican, 3 Democrat Our Communities. Your College. Pathways for Student Success and a Stronger Indiana.

8. The Process • First Reading, Committee Assignment • Committee Hearing, Amendment, Vote • Second Reading, Amendments • Third Reading, Vote • Goes to other chamber • First Reading, Committee Assignment • Committee Hearing, Amendment, Vote • Second Reading, Amendments • Third Reading, Vote • Back to original chamber, concurrence/dissent • Conference Committee • Governor’s Desk Our Communities. Your College. Pathways for Student Success and a Stronger Indiana.

9. State Educational Institutions • Indiana University – 4 • Purdue University – 2 • Ball State University - 2 • Indiana State University – 1 • University of Southern Indiana – 1 (dual role) • Vincennes University – 1 (dual role) • All work together regarding public postsecondary education • Regular meetings • Joint-functions Our Communities. Your College. Pathways for Student Success and a Stronger Indiana.

10. Commission for Higher Ed • 14 members, appointed by the Governor, must be citizens of Indiana • Each Congressional district must be represented • One student member • One faculty member • Purposes of the commission: • Plan for and coordinate state supported system of postsecondary education. • Review appropriation requests of state educational institutions. • Make recommendations to the governor, budget agency, or the general assembly concerning postsecondary education. • Administer state financial aid programs. • Provide staff for the Board for Proprietary Education. • Other functions as assigned. Our Communities. Your College. Pathways for Student Success and a Stronger Indiana.

11. Commission for Higher Ed • Committees • Academic Affairs & Quality Committee - ensure Commission carries out its statutory responsibilities related to matters of an academic nature and the quality of the student experience. • The Budget & Productivity Committee – develops, implements, and has oversight of Commission's fiscal policies focused on increasing postsecondary efficiency and productivity. • The Student Success & Completion Committee - develops policy and practice initiatives to aid Hoosier postsecondary students in graduating from college on-time and without excessive debt. Our Communities. Your College. Pathways for Student Success and a Stronger Indiana.

12. State Dollars to Higher Ed • FY 18 - $2,008,467,194 • FY 19 - $2,045,623,577

13. Ivy Tech Budget – FY 2018 $22.3 million per month

14. State Performance Funding

15. CHE Overall Degree Completion 2

16. CHE At-Risk Student Degree Completion 3

17. CHE At-Risk Student Degree Completion Changing to Rate Based Calculation 4

18. CHE Student Persistence Incentive 5

19. Create A STEM Metric • Recognize each institution’s individual contribution to workforce alignment by expanding high-impact to all institutions and creating a STEM metric: • Research institutions will continue to benefit from the list of STEM degrees • STEM degree list will be opened to four-year comprehensive institutions • Two-Year institutions will be measured on: • •Credit-bearing certificates that meet the criteria for the Workforce Ready Grant (4 and 5 flames) • •Associate degrees in STEM fields 7

20. Eliminate Remediation Metric: Institutions will be rewarded based on persistence and degree completion 8

21. Stackable Credentials • Higher education is increasingly shifting to “stackable” credentials • Adjust Metrics for Stackable Credentials: • For each student, the PFF will only pay for the highest credential awarded in each CIP code during the fiscal year • Formula will continue to pay for stackable credentials earned in different fiscal years • Affects overall, at-risk, and STEM metrics 9

22. CHE On-Time Graduation Rate 10

23. QUESTIONS?