Moving Forward…June 7, 2011

The 90-Day Agenda: College Readiness and Completion,

Towards Performance Funding

The 90-Day Agenda: College Readiness and Completion, Towards

Performance Funding

1) Public Awareness

“60 x 25 is Key Math for

Illinois’ Future”

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2) College Readiness

3) Closing the Achievement Gap

4) Performance Funding

The 90-Day Agenda: Vision Statement

The Illinois Board of Higher Education (IBHE), the state’s coordinating agency for two and four-year, public and independent colleges and universities, is required to succeed at achieving several competing activities, including statutory obligations, statewide mandates, as well as the responsibility to make steady progress in the implementation of the Illinois Public Agenda for College and Career Success.

 In response to Illinois’ recessive economic condition and pursuant to President Barack

Obama’s call during his State of the Union Address in 2009, the implementation of the Public Agenda will be accelerated in order to insure that more of the State’s citizens are successful in achieving some form of a higher education that they can afford, and, therefore, improve their civic and economic standing, especially those on the underside of the achievement gap.

Therefore in these first ninety days, the staff of IBHE will increase the citizen’s awareness and implementation of the Public Agenda, as the senior staff of IBHE will lead in increasing college and career readiness, creating opportunities for the re-enrollment of minority and underserved students who have left college before they graduated, and in creating support and legislation for the establishment of performance funding by the State of Illinois for college and universities.

Increased public awareness

Improved college readiness through better curriculum alignment

Renewed interest in college to close the achievement gap

Focused on college completions through performance funding

The 90-Day Agenda: Summary

Next Step: One-Year Strategic Plan

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“The Number One Agenda, Closing the Achievement Gap:

Dual Credit, Performance Funding, and Dropout Re-enrollment Made Real”

7/1/2011 to 6/30/2012

The Number-One Agenda: Vision Statement

Under the leadership of the senior officers of the IBHE, an initiative has already begun designed to raise the public’s awareness of the Illinois Public Agenda for College and Career Success, especially in the areas of the re-enrollment of college dropouts, increasing college readiness and completion in Illinois, as well as helping to guide the legislative staff as the legislature enacts a law instituting performance funding. The blueprint for higher education, the Public Agenda, must be further implemented over the next twelve months. By June 30, 2012, the IBHE will implement the Public Agenda in the following ways [to be determined].