Complete College Oklahoma
Update to Complete College America
2011 Annual Convening
Austin, TX
Oklahoma’s Processes
and Priorities
How we organized for this work.
How we identified areas of influence.
How we solidified our priorities.
Where we are in our activities.
Oklahoma Processes
•June 2010 – Importance of composition of leadership
team – Especially inclusion of college presidents
•August 2010 – CCA Assessment Tool just as valuable as
NGA/CCA Data & Metrics
•Immediate engagement of Oklahoma’s Presidents and
Vice Presidents for Academic Affairs
•March 2011 – Oklahoma’s Completion Academy in
Miami
•April 2011 to Now – Regular updates of State Regents,
Governing Boards, Governor, Legislature, Cabinet
Officials
•August 2011 – Governor Fallin’s announcement of
Complete College Oklahoma and charge to make degree
and certificate completion central to Oklahoma’s
economic expansion
Oklahoma Priorities
•Thorough review
of existing and
new research
•Make your project
your own
•Meaningful
change
•Prioritize and
accelerate
“Ultimately, what is
proposed under the
Oklahoma action plan is an
acceleration of efforts to
make significant
improvements to two critical
segments of the educational
pipeline: Restructuring
remedial and developmental
education and Development
of accelerated degree
completion options.”
Complete College Oklahoma
A Plan for Increasing Postsecondary Credentials to Fuel a Strong Economy
1
FOCUS ON READINESS
2 TRANSFORM REMEDIATION
3 BUILD BRIDGES TO
CERTIFICATES & DEGREES
4 REACH HIGHER FOR ADULT
COMPLETION
5 TRACK & REWARD
PROGRESS & COMPLETION
Higher education and K-12 will work together to develop and implement
a strategy that seeks to identify students not on target to be collegeready by graduation and targets activities in the 11th and 12th grades to
reduce remediation demands in the transition from high school to
college.
Every Oklahoma institution will implement transformational models of
remedial placement and support through a statewide phased
implementation and refinement process.
Develop and implement a "Program Equivalent Project" that bridges
Career Tech credit hour completion to certificate and A.A.S. degree
completion in the community colleges.
Further expand and develop Reach Higher as a degree and certificate
completion effort that involves the entire system of postsecondary
education.
Reform Oklahoma’s successful Brain Gain Performance Funding Program
to provide metrics and accountability for measuring state and campus
progress toward completion goals.
Complete College Oklahoma
Increasing 1,700 Degrees & Certificates per Year
Oklahoma Degree and Certificate Goals
67% Increase
50,900
30,500
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