Blog post on On Campus: Degrees of Angst Part 1
The following is part one of a two-part guest blog post that I wrote which was published on WGBH's On Campus blog. It's in response to the most recent report, Degrees of Urgency from the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education.
"In late October, the Massachusetts’ Department of Higher Education released its “Degrees of Urgency” Vision Project report. It addresses challenges for state colleges and universities as demographic shifts in the next decade will result in smaller student enrollments. In New England, colleges can anticipate a 9 percent or more population loss.
The report arrives on the heels of a dramatic shift in Massachusetts funding for higher education. The new funding formula focuses significantly on completion rates of students who start full time and complete a program within the expected time. The formula seems likely to exasperate existing problems since state institution populations have continued to grow significantly since 2000, despite over 30 percent drop in public funding during that same time."
For the full post, please visit the On Campus Blog here.
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| Snapshot of the Vision Project website. |
The report arrives on the heels of a dramatic shift in Massachusetts funding for higher education. The new funding formula focuses significantly on completion rates of students who start full time and complete a program within the expected time. The formula seems likely to exasperate existing problems since state institution populations have continued to grow significantly since 2000, despite over 30 percent drop in public funding during that same time."
For the full post, please visit the On Campus Blog here.
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