ARKANSAS STUDENT SUCCESS INITIATIVES

1. ARKANSAS STUDENT SUCCESS INITIATIVES Arkansas Lottery Scholarship Complete College Arkansas • Karen J. Wheeler • Associate Director • Arkansas Department of Higher Education

2. Today’s Discussion • Frame the Issues. • What’s Going On Nationally? • What’s Going On In Arkansas? • Arkansas Student Success Initiatives • Arkansas Academic Challenge Scholarship (Lottery)

3. Framing of the Issues

4. What’s Going On Nationally?

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38. 5 National Higher Education Trends We Can’t Ignore

39. Trend#1 Student Success Movement

40. President Obama’s Priorities • Highest proportion of college graduates in the world by 2020 • National high school exit standards • High school exit and college readiness standards linked

41. BIG GOALS Increase the proportion of 25-34 year-olds who hold an associate degree or higher to 55% by the year 2025in order to make America the educational attainment leader in the world. (College Board, Commission on Access, Admissions and Success in Higher Education, 2008) Increase the level of the nation’s high-quality college degrees and credentials to 60% by 2025. (Lumina Foundation for Education)

42. Degree Production • Developmental Education Reform • Increased Support Services • Seamless Transfer • Accelerated Learning • Early College

43. Trend # 2 Instructional Technology

44. Technology and Distance Education • More than 2 million students • Growing rapidly, increasing competition • Hybrid programs most effective • Greatest number of distance students and courses are within traditional settings Ralph Wolff, President and Executive Director, Senior College Commission, WASC World Future Society, July 2009

45. Trend # 3 Use of Data

46. Data Trends • Analyze non-traditional data points • Student progression in developmental education • Student completion of “gatekeeper” courses • Part-time students included in cohorts • Time-to-degree extended beyond IPEDS definitions • Data stratified by gender, race/ethnicity, college-readiness, and SES

47. Trend #4 Accountability

48. Why the Concern with Accountability? • Lack of Graduates • National graduation rate about 50% • Quality of Graduates • National Surveys consistently show that 20-30% of college graduates have only basic quantitative skills. • National Assessment of Adult Literacy Report: Performance drop 1992 to 2003: • College graduates proficient in English fell from 40% to 31% • College graduates proficient in prose literacy fell from 51% to 41% • Employers: college grads lack skills for the workplace

49. Common Measures of Accountability • Completion rates • Placement rates • Learning assessment and outcomes • Cost/tuition containment

50. State Higher Education Priority - Higher Education Appropriations Relative to State and Local Tax Revenues and Lottery Profits - 2005 State Higher Education Priority - Higher Education Appropriations Relative to State and Local Tax Revenues and Lottery Profits - 2005 State Higher Education Priority - Higher Education Appropriations Relative to State and Local Tax Revenues and Lottery Profits - 2005 Overall Educational Needs Index - 2005 Trend #5 State Higher Education Policy Initiatives