Browsing by Author "Ewell, Peter T."

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    The Challenges and Opportunities Facing Higher Education
    Jones, Dennis; Ewell, Peter T.; McGuinnes, Aims (The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, 1998-12-01)
    The paper attempts to accomplish three main tasks: 1. To make the case that the policy environment for higher education is changing and that many current policy assumptions no longer obtain. For instance: policy interests are shifting toward a concern with client needs and service and away from attention to institutions and their needs; and the tools of policy are increasingly focused on shaping institutional behavior indirectly (through creating and regulating markets), rather than directly (through regulating and controlling institutions). 2. To identify the kinds of issues that arise—and the particular types of policy questions that must be addressed—if the above assertions are true. 3. To suggest the kinds of activities that could most usefully be incorporated into the research and development agenda of the National Center. While the paper is no longer labeled a draft, it remains a work in progress.
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    Good Policy, Good Practice. Improving Outcomes and Productivity in Higher Education: A Guide for Policymakers (Part I)
    Callan, Patrick M.; Ewell, Peter T.; Finney, Joni E.; Jones, Dennis P. (National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS), 2007-11-01)
    This report describes a wide range of successful strategies from which states can draw to increase the educational attainment of their residents while holding down higher education costs. Part I offers examples of strategies, programs, and practices that the authors' research findings can raise educational productivity. Part II describes the mechanisms that state policymakers can use, directly and indirectly, to influence improvements, and it emphasizes the necessity of state policy support and, if needed, policy change. Part II outlines the key policy levers that state leaders can use to pursue the strategies outlined in Part I. Together, Parts I and II of this document present the solid base of experience available to policy leaders as they seek to raise the higher education attainment of state residents, even in the face of fiscal constraints. The examples of best practices in this report show that there are ways to simultaneously achieve access, quality, and efficiency in higher education.
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    The "Quality Agenda:" An Overview of Current Efforts to Examine Quality in Higher Education
    Ewell, Peter T. (National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS), 2012-10-01)
    This discussion paper prepared for the American Council on Education (ACE) provides an overview of current efforts to examine quality in higher education in the public agenda.
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    State Policies on Student Transitions: Results of a Fifty-State Inventory
    Ewell, Peter T.; Boeke, Marianne; Zis, Stacey (National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS), 2008-05-01)
    A central objective of state policy is to move larger numbers of citizens through the “educational pipeline” to attain a college degree. In part this objective recognizes that the U.S. is losing its historic dominance in the proportion of young adults with a postsecondary credential (OECD, 2007). This report concentrates on four key transitions that directly affect the number of college graduates that a state can generate: The first is the transition from high school to college. The second transition is from pre college to college-level work. The third transition is from two-year to four-year institutions of higher education. The fourth and final transition is from the status of being enrolled in a postsecondary institution to having graduated from one. Sections of the report on each of these topics describe the approaches taken by the fifty states.