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- Developing and Maintaining the Information Infrastructure for State Level Higher Education Policy MakingJones, Dennis P.; Paulson, Karen (National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS), 2001-07-01)In the context of growing demand for policy-relevant data and information, it is time to take a fresh look at unmet needs for policy-relevant data and information, and to explore alternative approaches to addressing these needs. This report’s aims are to: 1. Clarify the language being used, making distinctions between data and information and the relationship between them. 2. Propose a conceptual description of a state’s system of higher education that can serve as a diagnostic tool for ascertaining. 3. Identify limitations in the availability of information needed to support policy making in higher education and to note some of the key reasons for the lack of availability. 4. Suggest strategies for addressing these unmet data and information needs.
- 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.
- A New Look at the Institutional Component of Higher Education Finance: A Guide for Evaluating Performance Relative to Financial ResourcesKelly, Patrick J.; Jones, Dennis P. (National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS), 2005-12-01)This report supported by The Pew Charitable Trusts is an effort to address the performance of state higher education systems, and the public sectors within them, relative to their levels of funding. The report aims to respond to the following questions: (1) Are there states and public sectors within states performing at high levels with relatively low levels of funding?; (2) Are there distinguishing characteristics between sectors of public institutions that perform very differently despite being similarly funded,or between sectors that perform essentially the same with very different levels of funding?; and (3) Are there external factors that influence performance relative to funding? Findings reveal that not all institutions need more resources; some can perform better with what they have, and some can maintain or improve performance with fewer resources. These considerations are rarely addressed in the complex and politically charged environment of higher education finance; when they are, they are usually statements of opinion without supporting data.