Oregon University System > State Board > Working Groups > Excellence In Delivery & Productivity

Committee Work

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General Reports

• Briefing of Excellence in Delivery and Productivity
• EDP Priority Projects for 2005-06 (Aug 2005)
• EDP Workplan (Oct 2005)
• EDP Diversity Enhancements (White Paper)
• Thank you letter to EDP colleagues (June 2005)
• Diversity Building Activities
• Framing Excellence in Delivery and Productivity
• Possible Action Items (Sep 2004)
• Excellence in Delivery and Productivity: Activity Calendar (Spring 2004)
• Excellence in Delivery and Productivity: Possible Activities (Spring 2004)

EDP Opportunity Area Data and Reports

• Student Data Transfer Process
• Oregon Transfer Module/Student Competencies
• Articulation of Majors and Dual Enrollment
• Online Delivery
• Capacity Courses
• Acceleration for High School Students
• Retention

General Work

• Senate Bill 342 Bill Text
• Addressing Senate Bill 342: Process Maps

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Student Data Transfer Process

• Data Transfer System
  • Data Transfer System (CSAPP) Webpage
  • PK-20 Data System Informational Brief
  • Data Transfer Process Overview (Mar 2005)
  • K16 Integrated Data System Prototype Report DRAFT (Nov 2004)
    CSAPP Report on transferring information from K12 to higher ed
• Articulated Transfer Linked Audit System (ATLAS)
  • ATLAS Informational Brief (Feb 2005)
  • ATLAS Do-It-Yourself demo (PPT) (Mar 2005)
  • Minutes from 4/25/05 ATLAS meeting
  • Minutes from 3/23/05 ATLAS meeting
  • Minutes from 2/16/05 ATLAS meeting
  • Draft: ATLAS cost-benefit analysis (Apr 2005)
• National Publications and Research
  • Achieving the Dream, State Data Systems and Privacy Concerns: Strategies for Balancing Public Interest (Feb 2005)
  • ECS, The Case for P-16: Designing an Integrated Learning System, Preschool through Postsecondary Education
  • ECS, A Policymaker's Guide to the Value of Longitudinal Student Data (Sep 2002)
  • Education Trust, Getting Honest About Grad Rates: How States Play the Numbers and Lose (June 2005)
  • NGA, Graduation Counts: Redesigning the American High School (Aug 2005)
• PK-20 National Publications and Research
  • ECS, P-16 Education in Oregon (Aug 2004)
  • National Commission on the High School Sr Year, Raising our Sights: No High School Senior Left Behind (Oct 2001)

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Oregon Transfer Module/Student Competencies

• Oregon Transfer Module
  • Oregon Transfer Module Informational Brief (Mar 2005)
  • Draft OTM Implementation FAQ (May 2005)
  • Cover Letter to Gretchen Schuette (11-19-04)
    Context for Transfer Module
  • Oregon Transfer Module (rev 11-19-04)
  • CIA Resolution endorsing the Transfer Module concept (Nov 2004)
  • IFS Letter on Importance of Advising (Oct 2004)
  • Provost Statement on General Education Outcomes (Oct 2004)
  • OWEAC Articulation Composition Recommendations (May 2005)
  • Following is the information and input from campus meetings collected by the Inter-Institutional Faculty Senate, rev 11-16-04.
    • Chapter I: Oregon Transfer Module
    • Chapter II: Town Hall Meetings
    • Chapter III: Documents Received
    • Chapter IV: Letters and Emails
    • Chapter V: Additional Emails and Documents
  • IFS Oregon Transfer Module webpage
  • IFS Oregon Transfer Module Archival webpage
• General Education Outcomes
  • Framework: Toward Improving General Education
  • Drafting General Education Outcomes
  • Public forum for discussing draft outcomes
• Oregon Data
  • OUS Degree Recipients that were CC Transfers: Transfer Credits 1998-03
    Average transfer credits when students arrived at OUS Institution
  • Transfers with over 12 Credit Hours 2002-03
    Look at quantity of students transferring to OUS with greater than 12 credits
  • States with a Common General Education Core Curriculum (June 2003)
    Number of credits in states with general education cores
  • OUS Remedial Data 1992-2001
    Quantity and percentage of students at OUS taking remedial classes
  • OUS Remedial Data 1992-2001: Campus Specific Data
    Individual OUS Campus Remedial Class Enrollment
  • Community College Placement Test Utilization
    Placement tests used and cut-off scores
• National Publications and Research
  • Increasing Success for Underserved Students: Redesigning Introductory Courses (2005)
  • IHEP, State Policy and Community College - Baccalaureate Transfer (Aug 2002)
  • CPEC, Student Transfer in California Postsecondary Education (June 2005)

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Articulation of Majors and Dual Enrollment

• Oregon Reports
  • Summary and Purpose of Dual Enrollment Programs
  • Dual Enrollment between Oregon Community Colleges and OUS (Aug 2005)
  • Community College Co-Enrollment Survey (Nov 2004)
    Campuses with co-enrollment or dual admissions with Community Colleges
• Oregon Data
  • Community College Transfers to OUS 2003-04
    Top 10 majors by campus, number of students transferring, and existing articulation agreements
  • Transfers to OUS 2003-04 - Top 10 Majors
    Top 10 transfers by major to OUS campuses
  • Transfers to OUS 2003-04 - Top 10 Transfer Credits
    Top 10 list of majors with highest average transfer credits
  • Credits at Degree by Major 1992-2002
    A look at the average amount of credits students graduated with at each university
  • Undergraduate Coenrollment Data 2002-03
    Undergraduates enrolled at a Community College and OUS Institution at the same time
  • Portland CC: Students Concurrently Enrolled at Another Institution, Fall 2003
    Dual Enrollment data for Portland Community College
• National Publications and Research
  • NCES, The Road Less Traveled? Students Who Enroll in Multiple Institutions (May 2005)
  • WICHE, State Financial Aid: Policies to Enhance Articulation and Transfer (May 2005)

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Online Delivery

• Oregon Reports
  • Online Learning Issues for OSBHE (March 2005)
  • Proposal: Virtual University
  • Oregon Public Broadcasting Delivery Approaches (Sep 2005)
• Oregon Data
  • Community College Distance Learning Update (Feb 2005)
• National Publications and Research
  • Twigg, New Models for Online Learning (2003)
  • Twigg, Expanding Access to Learning: Virtual Universities (2003)
  • NPEC, How Does Technology Affect Access in Postsecondary Education? What Do We Really Know? (Sep 2004)
  • Sloan, Entering the Mainstream: Quality and Extent of Online Education in US, 2003 & 04 (Nov 2004)

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Capacity Courses

• Oregon Reports
  • March 2005 progress update
• Oregon Data
  • PSU Expanded Course List 2003

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Acceleration for High School Students

• Senate Bill 300
  • Senate Bill 300
    2005-07 bill on expanded options for high school students
• Advanced Placement
  • Introduction to ASPIRE
  • Consolidated Advanced Placement recommendations
  • Oregon AP and IB Map (2002-03)
    Visually shows locations of High Schools offering AP and IB programs
  • AP Availability at Oregon High Schools 2004 (XLS)
    List of all Oregon High School's college level programs
• Oregon Data
  • Status of Education in Rural Oregon
  • Average Credit Load 1998-2002
    Average Credit Load at OUS Institutions
  • Community College Post-Secondary Remedial Data 2000
    Rate at which students enrolled in Post-Secondary Remedial (PSR) Level Courses
  • Community College Pre-Collegiate Remedial Data 2000
    Rate at which students enrolled in Pre-Collegiate (ESL, ABE, GED, AHS, or PSR) Remedial College Courses
  • Years to Degree 1987-1996
    Data showing a decline in average time it takes to obtain a degree at OUS
  • Educational Attainment 2002
    Data showing average level of level of education attained in all 50 states
• National Publications and Research
  • Ready or Not: Creating a High School Diploma That Counts (2005)
  • OUS Institutions Responses: Pre-College Students in OUS College Courses (2004)
  • Achieve, The Expectations Gap: 50-State Review of High School Graduation Requirements (Jan 2004)
  • ACT, College Readiness Begins in Middle School (Jan 2005)
  • ACT, Courses Count: Preparing Students for Postsecondary Success (Jan 2005)
  • ACT, Crisis at the Core: Preparing all Students for College Level Work (Jan 2004)
  • Bassiri & Schulz, Constructing a Universal Scale of High School Course Difficulty
  • College Board, Advanced Placement Report to the Nation: 2005 (2005)
  • DOE, Principal Indicators of Student Academic Histories in Postsecondary Education, 1972-2000 (Jan 2004)
  • DOE, State Dual Enrollment Policies: Addressing Access and Quality (Mar 2004)
  • DOE, Update to State Dual Enrollment Policies: Addressing Access and Quality (2005)
  • EPI, Latino Students & The Educational Pipeline I: From Middle School to the Workforce (Apr 2005)
  • EPI, Latino Students & The Educational Pipeline II: Latino High School & Baccalaureate Graduates (Apr 2005)
  • EPI, Latino Students & The Educational Pipeline III: Pathways to the Bachelor's Degree for Latino Students (Apr 2005)
  • ETS, One Third of a Nation: Rising Dropout Rates and Declining Opportunities (Feb 2005)
  • Jobs for the Future, Fast Track to College: Increasing Postsecondary Success for All Students (Dec 2004)
  • Jobs for the Future, Head Start on College, Dual Enrollment Strategies in New England 2004-05 (June 2005)
  • Jobs for the Future, Integrating Grades 9 through 14: State Policies to Support and Sustain Early College High Schools (Jan 2005)
  • NCES, Dual Credit and Exam-Based Courses in U.S. Public High Schools: 2002-03 (Apr 2005)
  • NCES, Dual Enrollment of High School Students at Postsecondary Institutions: 2002-03 (Apr 2005)
  • ODE, 2006-2007 High School Graduation Requirements
  
  NEWS ARTICLES
  • CNN.com, U.S. World Position in Education Slipping (Sep 2005)
  • Charleston Gazette, Colleges are Key to Growth, Gates says (Aug 2005)

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Retention

• Oregon Reports
  • May 2005 Retention Subcommittee Report
    Contains progress to date on all action items
  • Retention "Best Practices" Grid (Mar 2005)
  • Retention Grid: Glossary of Practices (Mar 2005)
  • Federal Appropriation Request for Retention Center (Feb 2005)
  • Retention Meeting notes 4/7/05 (Apr 2005)
  • Patterns for Student Success Among Institutional Effectiveness Indicators (Aug 2004)
• Oregon Data
  • Western States Educational Attainment (2004)
  • Bachelor's Degrees Awarded by Institution, Age, and Discipline
    1998-99 : 1999-00 : 2000-01 : 2001-02 : 2002-03
  • Years to Degree 1987-1996
    Data showing a decline in average time it takes to obtain a degree at OUS
  • OUS Dropouts and Transfers 1995
    Dropouts from the OUS system presented in a variety of different ways by different qualifiers
• National Publications and Research
• Abrams, Rochel et al, Retention Strategies
• ACE, The School to College Transition: Challenges and Prospects (Dec 2004)
• ACT, National Collegiate Retention and Persistence to Degree Rates (2005)
• ACT, On Course for Success: A Close Look at Selected High School Courses that Prepare All Students for College (Jan 2004)
• ACT, On Course for Success: Implications for Policymakers (Jan 2005)
• ACT, The Role of Academic and Non-Academic Factors in Improving College Retention (Dec 2004)
• ACT, What Works in Student Retention? All Survey Colleges (Dec 2004)
• ACT, What Works in Student Retention? Public 4-Year Colleges(Dec 2004)
• ACT, What Works in Student Retention? Public 2-Year Colleges (Dec 2004)
• ECS, Fostering Student Retention and Success at the Community College (Sep 1998)
• Ed Trust, A Matter of Degrees: Improving Graduation Rates in 4-Year Colleges (May 2004)
• FutureWorks, Held Back: How Student Aid Programs Fail Working Adults (April 2002)
• IHEP, How Latino Students Pay for College (Aug 2005)
• Jobs for the Future, Leaks in the Postsecondary Pipeline: A Survey of Americans (Dec 2003)
• Jobs for the Future, Multiple Pathways and State Policy: Toward Education and Training Beyond High School (June 2003)
• Jobs for the Future, Ready for Tomorrow: Helping All Students Achieve Secondary and Postsecondary Success (Dec 2003)
• Lumina, A Step Toward College Success: Assessing Attainment Among Indiana's Twenty-First Century Scholars (Aug 2005)
• Lumina, Learning in the Fast Lane: Adult Learners' Persistence and Success in Accelerated College Programs (Aug 2001)
• Lumina, Strategies for Serving Underprepared Community College Students (June 2005)
• NBER, Addressing the Needs of Under-prepared Students in Higher Education: Does College Remediation Work? (May 2005)
• NCPPHE, Borrowers Who Drop Out: A Neglected Aspect of the College Student Loan Trend (May 2005)
• NCPPHE, Course Redesign Improves Learning and Reduces Cost (June 2005)
• SREB, Creating College Opportunity for All: Prepared Students and Affordable Colleges (Aug 2005)
• CCSSE, Engagement by Design: 2004 Findings (Jan 2004)
• NCES, Bridging the Gap: Academic Preparation and Postsecondary Success of First-Generation Students (May 2001)
• NCES, College Persistence on the Rise? Changes in Completion and Persistence Rates 1994-2000 (Nov 2004)
• NCES, Educational Attainment of High School Dropouts, 8 Years Later (Nov 2004)
• NCES, First-Generation Students: Undergraduates Whose Parents Never Enrolled in Postsecondary Institutions (June 1998)
• NCES, First-Generation Students in Postsecondary Education: A Look at Their Transcripts (July 2005)
• NCES, Gender Differences in Participation and Completion of Undergraduate Education and How They Have Changed Over Time (Feb 2005)
• NCES, Waiting to Attend College: Undergraduates Who Delay Their Postsecondary Enrollment (June 2005)
• Oklahoma State Regents, Academic Probation and Suspension: Impact Study of Retention Policy (June 2000)
• Pathways to College Network, A Shared Agenda: A Leadership Challenge to Improve College Access and Success (June 2004)
• Pell, Raising Graduation Rates of Low-Income College Students (Dec 2004)
• Pew, Latinos in Higher Education: Many Enroll, Too Few Graduate (Sep 2002)
• RAND, Goal: To Double the Rate of Hispanics Earning a Bachelor's Degree (Jan 2001)
• US DOE, Latino Student Success at Hipsanic-Serving Institutions (Jan 2004)
• WICHE, Informing Public Policy: Financial Aid and Student Persistence (Aug 2003)
• NEWS ARTICLES
  • Chronicle, This Year's Freshmen at 4-Year Colleges: A Statistical Profile (Feb 2005)
  • Chronicle, Study Suggests Ways to Preserve Access to College Despite Soaring Costs (Sep 2005)