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Tom Harnisch; Sean Baser; Rachel Burns; Kelsey Heckert; Carrie Klein; Kelsey Kunkle; Dustin Weeden – State Higher Education Executive Officers, 2025
This paper presents the top state policy priorities for 2025 based on a survey of members of the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEO). This paper is not an exhaustive list of state higher education policy issues for 2025 but represents those most likely to affect state higher education communities in the year ahead.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Policy, State Policy, State Legislation
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Friedel, Janice Nahra; Reed, Jared W. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2019
This chapter discusses an innovative state public policy which has incentivized Iowa's community colleges to become the economic drivers of their region. Created in the 1983 legislation, it continues to this day to affect Iowa's rural communities and their colleges.
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Policy, State Policy, Public Policy
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Driscoll, Lisa G.; Knoeppel, Robert C.; Della Sala, Matthew R.; Watson, Jim R. – Educational Considerations, 2014
As a result of the Great Recession of 2007-2009, most states experienced declines in employment, consumer spending, and economic productivity (Alm, Buschman, and Sjoquist 2011). In turn, these events led to historic declines in state tax revenues (Mikesell and Mullins 2010; Boyd and Dadayan 2009), resulting in major cuts in public spending. Local…
Descriptors: Productivity, Public Education, Economic Change, Economic Development