Opening Remarks: Executive Director G.W. Reid August 7, 2012

Public Agenda Update & Showcase 2 1) Performance funding 2) Private Business and Vocational Schools (PBVS) 3) IBHE public image 4) Reducing dropout, stop-out, and time to degree 5) Goal 3 of the Public Agenda

The Number One Agenda: 3 Performance Funding, Dropout Re-enrollment Made Real, Image Building, Private Business and Vocational Schools Implementation, and Public Agenda Accountability

Summer of 2012: Regional and National Presentations 4 State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEO) Midwestern Higher Education Compact (MHEC) Illinois Education Research Council (IERC) Association for Institutional Research (AiR) American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) Data Quality Campaign (DQC)

Future Discussions: Time to Degree 5

6 1. Dual credit programming; 2. Increase the effectiveness of remediation by reducing students time in such courses; 3. Working toward the 120 hour college degree and the 30 hour major; and 4. Block and convenience scheduling of courses for the new majority of students entering higher education for the foreseeable future. Future Topics

Public Agenda Update & Showcase 7 The Number One Agenda

Private Business and Vocational Schools Transferred from ISBE to IBHE in February 2012 Dr. Dan Cullen, Interim Deputy Director for Academic Affairs

Performance Funding Model for fiscal year 2013 Performance Funding Refinement Committee Dr. Alan Phillips, Deputy Director for Fiscal Affairs, Budgeting and Information Technology

The IBHE Brand Image Building Logo and motto Jonathan Lackland, Deputy Director for Advancement, External & Governmental Relations

Dropout Re-Enrollment Made Real Financial assistance for returning students Dr. Arthur Sutton, Deputy Director for Diversity & Outreach

Accountability Goal 3: State Accountability Report Karen Helland, Acting Associate Director of Research, Analysis, Policy Development and Publications