{"id":1522,"date":"2015-08-03T13:28:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T13:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nshe.nevada.edu\/system-administration\/?post_type=nshe_news&#038;p=1522"},"modified":"2022-07-25T22:31:08","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T22:31:08","slug":"recent-data-shows-nshe-ahead-of-call-for-performance-by-secretary-duncan","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/nshe.nevada.edu\/system-administration\/news\/2015\/08\/recent-data-shows-nshe-ahead-of-call-for-performance-by-secretary-duncan\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent data shows NSHE ahead of call for performance by Secretary Duncan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last week, on behalf of the Obama administration, U.S. Department of<br>Education Secretary Arne Duncan called for an increased focus on accountability and performance outcomes in higher education. This is a national call to action where Nevada already has a proven record of demonstrated success. Data on NSHE&#8217;s progress can be found on its recently updated Institutional Research webpage at&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nevada.edu\/ir\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.nevada.edu\/ir\/<\/a>.<br>.<br>NSHE has been laser-focused on a creating a culture of completion since 2012. Since joining the Complete College America initiative, NSHE has seen a 21% increase in the number of awards conferred in its first three years of participation. The&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/system.nevada.edu\/tasks\/sites\/Nshe\/assets\/File\/15%20to%20Finish%20Fall%202014%20Outcomes%20Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;15 to Finish&#8221;<\/a>&nbsp;initiative, which NSHE adopted in 2013, has yielded remarkable results for all seven of its degree-granting institutions. Percent increases between Fall 2012 and Fall 2014 in the number of first-time degree seeking students (18-24 years old) enrolled in 15 credits or more are as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>College of Southern Nevada: 31%<\/li><li>Great Basin College: 100%&nbsp;<\/li><li>Truckee Meadows Community College: 116%&nbsp;<\/li><li>Western Nevada College: 214%&nbsp;<\/li><li>Nevada State College: 400%&nbsp;<\/li><li>University of Nevada, Las Vegas: 112%&nbsp;<\/li><li>University of Nevada, Reno: 51%<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The Nevada System of Higher Education prides itself on the data that it compiles, publishes, and makes readily available on its website. This type of transparent accountability was also a point of emphasis by Secretary Duncan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other successes include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Over a 10-year period, the number of awards (degrees and certificates) earned by NSHE&#8217;s minority students has increased by 171 percent.&nbsp;<\/li><li>2013 data released in &#8220;Diverse: Issues in Higher Education&#8221; showed NSHE institutions achieved top 100 rankings in 25 categories&#8230;many of them in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines.&nbsp;<\/li><li>In 2013, the Legislature approved a new funding formula that made NSHE&#8217;s state funding driven by course completions instead of the historical number of enrolled students.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Created a Performance Pool that rewards NSHE institutions for meeting clearly defined, institution-specific metrics for success and alignment with state economic development goals.&nbsp;<\/li><li>NSHE&#8217;s Nevada College Collaborative, under the leadership of Director Frank Woodbeck, is partnering with K-12 and the Governor&#8217;s Office of Economic Development for a pilot program for a fully integrated education and career pathway in advanced manufacturing.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Another exciting collaboration with K-12 and GOED has been the development of a new longitudinal data system, the Nevada P-20 Workforce Report. The system connects information from the moment a student starts preschool to high school graduation, acceptance to college and even entry into the workforce. This will help NSHE&#8217;s researchers to more easily identify trends and evaluate the success of its programs in meeting students&#8217; needs.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>On the&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nevada.edu\/ir\/\" target=\"_blank\">NSHE website<\/a>, you can also find information on graduation, enrollment, diversity and a myriad of other matters. In addition, the System compiles and publishes reports on areas that are mission critical such as workforce and research alignment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categories":[43,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1522","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","category-43","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nshe.nevada.edu\/system-administration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/1522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nshe.nevada.edu\/system-administration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nshe.nevada.edu\/system-administration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nshe.nevada.edu\/system-administration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nshe.nevada.edu\/system-administration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nshe.nevada.edu\/system-administration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nshe.nevada.edu\/system-administration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}