1. What Advancing Leaders Should Know About Higher Education Policy
Claude Pressnell
President
Tennessee Independent Colleges and Universities Association

2. Policy Pressures: State Issues
Student Aid
Hope Scholarship
TSAA
Reserve accounts
Tennessee Promise
Reconnect
Points of Intersection
Associate Degrees
Transfer Pathways
Adult Learners

3. Policy Pressures: State Issues
California
Religious institutions
Expansion of Free Community College
PILOT’s

4. Federal Pressures Student Aid Pell Grant PPY Campus Based $5,925 + CPI
Year round
15 hr $300 Bonus
Student Progression
PPY
Campus Based

5. Policy Pressures: Congressional Issues
College Cost
Student Loans
Reauthorization of the Higher Education Act
Senator Lamar Alexander
FAST ACT
Deregulation
Accreditation
Skin in the game

6. Policy Pressures: Administration
Introducing Paying for Performance
Tie aid to performance
State funding
Students and colleges accountable for progress
Innovation and Competition
Consumer information
Student Aid
PPY
IBR and Flex repayment

7. Policy Pressures: Administration
USDOE Rules
State Authorization
Accreditation/ACICS
Borrower’s Defense
Office of Civil Rights
Relevancy and Wages
Devaluing of the liberal arts
Department of Labor
Supreme Court

8. Presidential Campaigns
Clinton
Free community college
Debt-free public universities
Not last-dollar (tuition, fees, books)
Trump
Loans difficult for liberal arts majors – except for elite colleges
Colleges with skin-in-the-game
No state-federal partnerships to make college free

10. Low-income Students Pell Ranking in Tennessee
13 TICUA members have the highest percentage of Pell Students
Southwest Community College
Tennessee State University
2 more TICUA members
40% of TICUA Tennesseans Receive Pell
33% of All TICUA Students Receive Pell

24. TICUA Enrollment Trends
Down
About one third
Average Pell – 61%
Flat
Average Pell – 44% Up
Average Pell – 45%

25. Fastest Growing Case One Case Two Case Three
10 year enrollment increase – 3.5x
Majority adult learners
Average Pell – 71%
Case Two
10 year enrollment increase – 2x
Average Pell – 56%
Case Three
10 year enrollment increase – 79%
Majority traditional learners
Average Pell – 29%

26. Academic Realities Progression Focused Online programs Convenience
Collaboration
Competency Based

27. Academic Realities Student outcomes College cost
Measure broadly (expand the conversation!)
Learning outcomes defined as essential skills
Academic success
Career placement
College cost
Budget cutting
Discount rates

28. Global Trends Global Academic Environment European Reform
Quest Toward Quality and Globalization
European Reform
Bologna Process
Purpose: Ensure quality and mobility
Three/Two/Three Degree Cycle
ECTS

29. Global Trends European Reform (continued) Impact on United States
Degree Level Outcomes
Five Basic Statements
Knowledge acquisition
Application of knowledge
Integration of knowledge
Communication (oral/written)
Foundations for further study
Diploma Supplement
Impact on United States

30. Characteristics FIRST – Stay Mission Focused but Delivery Flexible
Rethinking Academic Structure

31. Characteristics New Programs Responsive to Community Ease of Access
Innovative Delivery
Academic Collaboration

32. TICUA Advancing Leaders
Claude Pressnell
President
Tennessee Independent Colleges and Universities Association