Sentences with phrase «state higher education»

Hawaii has several state programs to assist residents: University of Hawaii Opportunity Grant, Native Hawaiian Tuition Waiver, Hawaii Second Century Scholars, and the State Higher Education Loan.

After the loan (s) was discharged Nelnet abandoned collection efforts for three years then tumed the case over to New York State Higher Education Services Corporation (NYSHESC) who began collection efforts in early 2012.

The call center and web site will be operated by the New York State Higher Education Services Corporation (HESC), the state's student loan agency.

The Smarter Balanced director of higher education collaboration oversees outreach to the higher education community and provides support to the state higher education leads.

Each Smarter Balanced member has a Higher Education Lead who serves as a liaison between Smarter Balanced and state higher education institutions.

It needs to be read and acted upon by governors, chief state school officers, state higher education executive officers, legislators and professional associations.»

With an emphasis on ensuring student access and success, she has also worked at the Daniels Fund, the National Conference of State Legislatures and the State Higher Education Executive Officers.

ESSA provides state higher education leaders a critical opportunity to partner with their K — 12 colleagues to align efforts and create mutually reinforcing goals.

The National Association of System Heads, the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association, and a new coalition of college and university leaders called Higher Ed for Higher Standards recently released recommendations making a compelling case for higher education's seat at the table as states rework K - 12 standards and assessments.

George Pernsteiner, Former President, State Higher Education Executive Officers Association View Bio

This brief is part of a series that Higher Ed for Higher Standards, in partnership with the Council of Chief State School Officers, the National Association of System Heads, and the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association, is releasing to support K — 12 and higher education partnerships on state strategies for increasing college readiness and success through ESSA.

This new legislation explicitly focuses on improving the college and career readiness of all students, including requiring states to set high standards that are aligned to state higher education entrance requirements.

Academic supports work, but are costly, and decades of state higher education budget cuts have left public institutions with large classes taught by less - qualified instructors, and little in the way of counseling, mentoring, and other core services.

A big factor is state higher education funding cuts over the past few decades.

Many thanks to the many experts and organizations involved in this effort, including: Archie Cubarrubia (Miami Dade College); Patrick Perry (WestEd); American Institutes for Research; Association of Community College Trustees; Association for Institutional Research; Center for American Progress; Complete College America; EDUCAUSE; National Center for Higher Education Management Systems; National Student Clearinghouse Research Center; State Higher Education Executive Officers Association; Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education; Workforce Data Quality Campaign.

He has extensive experience in state higher education policy, with the Office of the President of the University of North Carolina system, as senior staff to the state higher education coordinating board in Arkansas, and as senior manager of a statewide math and science education reform project funded by the National Science Foundation.

Since 2001, Crowe has worked on projects related to teacher quality policy for the State Higher Education Executive Officers (SHEEO), and with the public higher education systems of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin; for the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future (NCTAF) on teacher preparation projects, and on research on the cost of teacher turnover; as an adviser to the Hunter Foundation of Scotland and to the Scottish National Executive on teacher quality; has been a member of the Advisory Council for the Texas Center for Research, Evaluation and Advancement of Teacher Education (CREATE); and was a member of the national advisory panel for the Ohio Teacher Quality Partnership.

Paul Lingenfelter, president emeritus of the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association, recently reflected on the impasse between policymakers and educational practitioners in the Carnegie Commons blog.

State higher education regents declared Oklahoma's previous standards «college - and - career - ready» on Oct. 16, paving the way for a reinstated waiver.

The federal government allows state to adopt different but similarly rigorous standards with the approval of a state higher education board, and a number have done so, including Minnesota and Virginia.

However, as the only state in the country without a State Higher Education Executive Office (SHEEO), there has been little formal coordination or collaboration among these important stakeholders.

Higher Ed for Higher Standards, in partnership with the Council of Chief State School Officers, National Association of System Heads, and State Higher Education Executive Officers Association announced a new series of materials, Leveraging ESSA to Increase College Readiness and Completion.

Higher Ed for Higher Standards — in partnership with the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), National Association of System Heads (NASH), and State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEO)-- released new resources for higher education leaders to «leverage ESSA.»

The mission of the NCHEMS Information Center for State Higher Education Policymaking and Analysis (The Information Center) is to provide state policymakers and analysts timely and accurate data and information that are useful in making sound higher education policy decisions.

State of Higher Education Finance, State Higher Education Executive Officers.

Your information also goes to your state higher education agency, as well as to agencies of the states where your chosen schools are located.

«SHEF: FY 2015: State Higher Education Finance.»

Last September, he all but required adoption of the Common Core or similar standards approved by state higher education officials if states want to receive federal waivers from the 2002 No Child Left Behind law.

Moreover, in the spring of 2004, he signed a bill that will provide state higher education aid directly to students in the form of a voucher for use at the schools of their choice.

He has co-authored several publications, including K - 12 / Higher Education Alignment: An Action Agenda for Increasing Student Success, for Core to College and the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association.

State Higher Education Executive Officers Association.

On the other hand, state higher education budgets are under enormous pressure.

Copies are $ 10 each from the State Higher Education Executive Officers, 707 17th St., Suite 2700, Denver, Colo. 80202 - 3427; [phone].

State Higher Education Executive Officers.

State higher education performance funding is falling short of its intended goals of raising student retention and degree completion rates at community colleges, according to new research published today in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, a peer - reviewed journal of the American Educational Research Association.

Between 2002 and 2004, state higher education funding fell by 3.5 % in Washington state, 6.5 % in Wisconsin, 7.9 % in Michigan, 20.4 % in Virginia, and 23 % in Massachusetts.

Fiscal year 2004 saw total state higher education funding fall by 2.1 %, the first overall decline in more than a decade, according to an annual survey by Illinois State University's Center for the Study of Education Policy.

The State of Public University Funding 6 February 2004 Fiscal year 2004 saw total state higher education funding fall by 2.1 percent, the first overall decline in more than a decade.

A questionnaire distributed recently to potential jurors contains a long list of current and former members of state government, Cuomo's administration, state higher education institutions, and also people connected to development and business firms across the state.

Guillermo Linares — a former assemblyman and city councilman — will head the state Higher Education Services Corp., which reviews and distributes $ 1 billion in tuition assistance and financial aid to 370,000 college students.

years; exempts vehicles owned by firefighter first responders used in the performance of duty from motor vehicle registration fees and vehicle use taxes; authorizes local volunteer fire companies and ambulance companies to offset the cost of health insurance for their volunteers through the use of funds collected from a 2 percent fire insurance premium tax from out - of - state insurers; allows fire companies to select up to three candidates to participate in the state's college tuition assistance program, known as Volunteer Recruitment Service Scholarships; and directs the state Higher Education Services Corp. to create a volunteer recruitment service college loan forgiveness program.

At 3 p.m., state Higher Education Services Corporation Acting President Guillermo Linares delivers and distributes toys at El Centro, 350 Port Richmond Ave., Staten Island.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the New York State Higher Education Services Corporation Board of Trustees approved Excelsior Scholarship regulations last week.

Despite that drama and the nail - biting tension it caused for Chancellor Nancy Zimpher and other state higher education officials, it went down with a whimper, not included in the budget passed by the state Senate this week.

State higher education leaders said the plan, which also drew praise from U.S. Education Secretary John King Jr., would incentivize both full - time enrollment and college completion.

Also at 6 p.m., Guillermo Linares of the New York state Higher Education Services Corp. hosts an Excelsior Scholarship information session, Finger Lakes Community College, Geneva Campus Center, 63 Pulteney St., Geneva.

Also at 6 p.m., Guillermo Linares of the state Higher Education Services Corp. hosts an Excelsior Scholarship information session, Onondaga Community College, Academic II Recital Hall, Room P100, 4585 W. Seneca Turnpike, Syracuse.

The program, «Fostering Higher Education Leadership and Innovation,» was developed with the particular goal of providing the delegation with greater insight into the United States higher education system.

Not exact matches

Harvey Weingarten, President and CEO of the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario, was a member of the Council of Canadian Academies panel on The State of Industrial R&D in Canada.

We also considered the number of higher education institutions in each state.