1. Illinois Board of Higher Education December 9, 2008

2. Recommendation 1: Eliminate achievement gaps
Goal 1:Increase educational attainment to match best-performing U.S. states and world countries.
Recommendation 1: Eliminate achievement gaps
Strategies
1. Improve College Readiness
2. Strengthen Teacher and School Leader Quality
3. Improve Access for Students with Disabilities

3. Recommendation 2: Increase adult completion of college credentials
Goal 1:Increase educational attainment to match best-performing U.S. states and world countries.
Recommendation 2: Increase adult completion of college credentials
Strategies:
1. Increase Support for Adult Students to Complete a Postsecondary Credential
2. Establish Partnerships Aimed at Expanding Opportunities for Adult Learners
3. Strengthen Accountability

4. 2. Strengthen College Readiness
Goal 1:Increase educational attainment to match best-performing U.S. states and world countries.
Recommendation 3: Reduce geographic disparities
Strategies:
1. Expand Capacity
2. Strengthen College Readiness

5. 1. Review Aid Programs for Low-income Students
Goal 2: Ensure college affordability for students, families and taxpayers.
Recommendation : Make Illinois one of the five most affordable states in nation,
measured by :
a) % of family income required b) the average amount of debt per student
Strategies:
1. Review Aid Programs for Low-income Students

6. 2.Help Students Complete Education Faster
Goal 2: Ensure college affordability for students, families and taxpayers.
Strategies:
2.Help Students Complete Education Faster
3 Assist Middle-income Students to Qualify for Aid
4. Find Institutional Operating Efficiencies

7. 1. Incentives to Complete Degrees 2. Improve Skill Levels
Goal 3: Increase number of quality postsecondary credentials to meet demands of the economy.
Recommendation 1: Increase number of people with credentials
Strategies
1. Incentives to Complete Degrees
2. Improve Skill Levels
3. Strengthen Accountability

8. --adult ed to postsecondary ed --remedial to degree-bearing coursework
Goal 3: Increase number of quality postsecondary credentials to meet demands of the economy.
Recommendation 2: Improve transitions along the education pipeline, from
--adult ed to postsecondary ed
--remedial to degree-bearing coursework
--associate to baccalaureate degrees
Strategies
1. Strengthen Articulation
2. Bolster Baccalaureate Completion

9. --Information Technology Strategies
Goal 3: Increase number of quality postsecondary credentials to meet demands of the economy.
Recommendation 3: Increase number of degrees in fields of critical skills shortage
--Nursing
--Allied Health
--Information Technology
Strategies
1. Expand Capacity

10. 1. Develop Resources and Incentives that Capitalize Strengths
Goal 4: Better integrate Illinois’ educational, research, and innovations assets to meet economic needs of the state and its regions.
Recommendation :Boost Illinois into the ranks of the five states with fastest growing economies
Strategies:
1. Develop Resources and Incentives that Capitalize Strengths
2. Develop P-20 Education Programs for Global Economy
3. Remove Barriers to Entrepreneurial Efforts