PERFORMANCE CONTRACT

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STATE OF COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION

• PERFORMANCE
• CONTRACT

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WHY?

• Increase number of Coloradans pursuing
  postsecondary education
• Recognize postsecondary education as essential
  in order to compete in a global economy and to
  develop a new generation of leaders and
  participants in state and local civic affairs
• Increase rate of postsecondary participation by
  low-income Coloradans, males and minorities

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WHY?

• Support programs that encourage participation in
  postsecondary education
• Increase awareness of value and need for
  postsecondary education
• Make citizens aware of financial support provided
  through General Assembly to students and
  institutions of higher education

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WHY?

• Provide for greater flexibility and a more
  focused accountability for Higher Education
  institutions to students and people of Colorado
• Require each governing board to negotiate a
  performance contract with the Department of
  Higher Education

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WHY?

• Require compliance with measurable goals and not
  limited to
• 1. Improving Colorado residents
• access to Higher Education
• 2. Improving quality and success in Higher
  Education
• 3. Improving efficiency of operations
• 4. Addressing the needs of the State

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GOALS

• Access and Success
• Quality in Undergraduate Education
• Efficiency of Operations
• Teacher Education
• Workforce and Economic Development

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SCOPE OF CONTRACT

• Occupational technical vocational needs
• Two-year transfer programs
• Basic skills
• Workforce development
• Personal and vocational education for adults

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Performance Goal Achievement

• Basic Skills Courses
• Postsecondary Enrollment Options Act and High
  School Fast Track Program
• Educational Services to increase Economic
  Development Opportunities in Colorado
• Courses to assist students in Career Development
  and Retraining

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Performance Goal Achievement

• Specialized Educational Services, i.e., Allied
  Health Professions and Nursing programs
• Obligations under Reciprocal Agreements with
  other states for waiving non-resident
  differential tuition rates

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GOAL 1

• ACCESS AND SUCCESS

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• Retention Rates
• By December 31, 2008, the System shall increase
• its fall-to-fall retention rates for
• First-time, full-time certificate or degree-
• seeking freshman from 52.4 to
  54.4
• First time, full-time certificate or degree-
• seeking freshman, including
  transfers to
• other institutions from 61.3 to
  63.3
• Accountability
• Reports of results due on or before December 31st
  of each year to Department of Higher Education

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• Graduation Rates
• By December 31, 2008, the System shall increase
  its
• completion rate for
• First-time, full-time certificate associate
  degree-
• seeking freshmen from 20.1 to 21.2
• Accountability
• Reports due of results (3-year completion rate)
  on or before December 31st of each year to
  Department of Higher Education

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Underserved Students Improving recruitment,
retention and graduation Low-income (Pell
grant eligible) Members of an ethnic or
racial minority group
Males Accountability Annual reports on results
due on or before December 31st to Department of
Higher Education
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• System will address the underserved through the
  following programs
• Scholarships
• Early Warning Programs (out of classroom
• assistance)
• Distance Learning for students needing more
• flexible course offerings
• Programs that identify students at risk for
• unsatisfactory progress offer special
  assistance
• Programs designed to increase enrollment,
• retention and graduation of underserved
  students

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GOAL 2

• QUALITY IN UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION

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HIGHEST PRIORITIES

• Improve academic competencies provide learning
  experiences that prepare students for global
  economy
• Prepare students for continuing, graduate or
  postgraduate professional studies
• Ensure transferability of general education
  courses
• Establish critical thinking logic skills

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• General Education Requirements
• Fully Transferable, foundational general
  education core
• curriculum (35-37 credit hours) corresponding
  with GT Pathways
• adopted by January 1, 2006
• Beginning July 1, 2006
• All catalogs and transcripts designate courses
  eligible
• for statewide guaranteed transfer
• All catalogs and related materials designate
  lower division
• courses not eligible for statewide
  guaranteed transfer
• All transcripts shall certify completion of
  transferable
• general education core
• Students must be able to complete within 40
  credit hours,
• lower division general education limit
  (Student Bill of Rights)
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• Accountability
• Annual reports due beginning July 1, 2006 on
  enrollment in each course that satisfies the
  general ed core curriculum

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Grade Distribution Once ERP is operational, data
to be reported includes Course grades
(general ed core curriculum)
disaggregated by academic subject course
level Career and Technical Education
courses Non-career and Technical
Education courses
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• Faculty
• Teaching effectiveness greatest weight in
• overall evaluation of faculty performance
• All salary increases are merit-based
• Information on faculty salaries provided
• annually

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• Evaluation Assessment Of Student Learning
• Annual reports on student achievement from
• outside recognized accreditation bodies
• Implementation of standard assessment
• methods for courses in general ed core
• curriculum in place no later than January 1,
• 2007

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GOAL 3

• EFFICIENCY OF OPERATION

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• COSTS
• CAPITAL ASSETS AND
• MAINTENANCE
• FACILITIES
• EFFICIENCY THROUGH BETTER
• INFORMATION

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GOAL 4

• OTHER STATE NEEDS TEACHER EDUCATION

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• TEACHER EDUCATION PROGRAMS
• CCHE authorizes TE programs, including
• continuance of joint on-site program reviews
  with
• CDE every fifth year
• CCHE will enforce articulation agreements
• between community colleges and state four-year
  institutions
• ACCOUNTABILY
• System certifies annually by July 1, 2006 that
  colleges
• are adhering to GT Pathways courses within
  statewide articulation agreements

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GOAL 5

• OTHER STATE NEEDS
• WORKFORCE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

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• System commitment to program development that
  addresses statewide and regional opportunities
  and priorities
• High demand fields
• Instructional programs or fields in which
  student enrollment applications exceed available
  slots
• Career fields in which employers are unable to
  find enough skilled graduates to fill jobs and
  vocational fields

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• System Shall
• Offer a broad range of vocational technical
• degree programs that meet labor needs
• Fill the occupational needs of youth and adults
• in technical and vocational fields
• Meet workforce development demands of state
• and communities served
• Offer a broad range of vocational education for
• adults
• Colleges may change programs and efforts to
• address workforce and economic development
• priorities without approval from CCHE or
  Department
• of Higher Education

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ACCOUNTABILITY Annual Report on the status of
the Perkins Act State Plan indicators for
postsecondary education due to the Department of
Higher Education on or before December 31st
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TERM OF CONTRACT

• ENDS JUNE 30, 2009