Transcript The 90-Day Agenda - Illinois Board of Higher Education

Moving Forward…
June 7, 2011
The 90-Day Agenda:
College Readiness and Completion,
Towards Performance Funding
Implementation, February 15
Progress Reports, April 12
Final Report, June 7
The 90-Day Agenda: College Readiness and
Completion,Towards Performance Funding
College Readiness
Dr. Bob
Blankenberger
Academic Affairs
Closing the
Achievement Gap
Dr. Arthur Sutton
Diversity &
Outreach
Performance
Funding
Public Awareness
Donald Sevener
External Relations
IBHE &
Public
Agenda
Mike Mann
Fiscal Affairs
1) Public Awareness
BANNER
NEWS ARTICLE
SIGNAGE
“60 x 25 is Key
Math for Illinois’
Future”
PRESENTATION
LOGO
2) College Readiness
11 Presentations to academic
groups, advisory councils,
and regional workshops
More than 350 college and
faculty members and high
school teachers
3) Closing the Achievement Gap
Re-Enrollment Campaign
Goal: Work with 90 Students
More than 1,500 letters sent
317 Contacted IBHE
123 Show Renewed Interest
4) Performance Funding
Prepare Information
& Conduct Briefings
Set Guidelines for
Implementation
House Bill 1503
Passed House and
Senate
The 90-Day Agenda: Vision Statement
The Illinois Board of Higher Education (IBHE), the state’s coordinating agency for two and fouryear, public and independent colleges and universities, is required to succeed at achieving
several competing activities, including statutory obligations, statewide mandates, as well as the
responsibility to make steady progress in the implementation of the Illinois Public Agenda for
College and Career Success.
In response to Illinois’ recessive economic condition and pursuant to President Barack Obama’s
call during his State of the Union Address in 2009, the implementation of the Public Agenda
will be accelerated in order to insure that more of the State’s citizens are successful in
achieving some form of a higher education that they can afford, and, therefore, improve their
civic and economic standing, especially those on the underside of the achievement gap.
Therefore in these first ninety days, the staff of IBHE will increase the citizen’s awareness and
implementation of the Public Agenda, as the senior staff of IBHE will lead in increasing college
and career readiness, creating opportunities for the re-enrollment of minority and
underserved students who have left college before they graduated, and in creating support
and legislation for the establishment of performance funding by the State of Illinois for
college and universities.
The 90-Day Agenda: Summary
 Increased public awareness
 Improved college readiness through better curriculum
alignment
 Renewed interest in college to close the achievement gap
 Focused on college completions through performance
funding
Next Step: One-Year Strategic Plan
Title
“The Number One Agenda,
Closing the Achievement Gap:
Dual Credit, Performance Funding, and
Dropout Re-enrollment Made Real”
7/1/2011 to 6/30/2012
The Number-One Agenda:
Vision Statement
Under the leadership of the senior officers of the IBHE, an initiative has
already begun designed to raise the public’s awareness of the Illinois Public
Agenda for College and Career Success, especially in the areas of the reenrollment of college dropouts, increasing college readiness and
completion in Illinois, as well as helping to guide the legislative staff as the
legislature enacts a law instituting performance funding. The blueprint for
higher education, the Public Agenda, must be further implemented over the
next twelve months. By June 30, 2012, the IBHE will implement the Public
Agenda in the following ways [to be determined].