The Master Plan launched and socialized across the state in 2019, has served as a rallying point for the Board of Regents and Louisiana around talent development. Furthermore, it has given clarity to the agency's goals and objectives. The engagement across all systems, institutions, and external partners (e.g. industry, economic development…

Higher education in Louisiana faces the consequences of a decade of disinvestment, radically reducing state support for colleges and universities and disproportionately shifting the funding burden to students and their parents. The consequences of this defunding hobbled the public institutions for a generation, just as excessive student debt…

Since its launch in August 2019, Louisiana's Master Plan has driven the state's prosperity agenda, nested in its ambitious attainment goal that calls for 60% of working-age adults to hold a postsecondary credential by 2030. This shared vision for the state has connected with a broad spectrum of stakeholders, from executive agencies focused on…

The Washington Higher Education Coordinating Board is charged by state statute with creating a strategic master plan for higher education once every 10 years, with updates every four years. The purpose of a statewide strategic master plan is to identify the overarching goals of the state's postsecondary education system. A limited and focused set…

Discusses the place and need for environmental education and proposes several items any master plan must consider: (1) statement of needs, (2) presentation of supportive data, (3) determination of goals to be achieved, (4) examination of alternative strategies, and (5) selection of ways to insure and evaluate arrival at the goals. (BL)

In 1960, California developed a "master plan" for its already famed public higher education system. It was and continues to be arguably the single most influential effort to plan the future of a system of higher education in the annals of American higher education. Despite popular belief, however, the California Master Plan for Higher…

The creation and meaning of a comprehensive outdoor recreation plan for the state of Texas is the topic of this address presented to the Department of Recreation and Parks, Texas A & M University, in February, 1968. Overall, the plan is concerned with any and all participation in leisure time activities conducted in an out-of-doors setting,…

Traces the experience of the Connecticut Commission for Higher Education in developing a master plan, including the timetable, who should participate, and how to evolve recommendations. (Author/PG)

Condensed in this collection are ideas which should aid planners in developing state master plans for environmental education. Based on a review of such plans from eleven states, comments are directed toward five topics: (1) the need for an acceptable definition of environmental education, (2) some commonalities in the goals of environmental…

A comprehensive plan for environmental education in Minnesota is developed in this report. Organizational recommendations are defined first, indicating the need for an organizational structure, one consisting of eight regional environmental education commissions and one state environmental education planning-coordinating council. The commissions…

This issue contains annual reports from 43 states, the District of Columbia, and three Canadian provinces focusing on problems, activities, achievements, and other areas of interest to the postsecondary education community. (Author)

California's Master Plan for Higher Education represented a promise, of an affordable college education, to every person who could benefit. For decades, California's lawmakers honored that promise. Rapidly increasing college fees, coupled with higher costs for room and board, books, transportation, and healthcare are pricing students out of higher…

This document presents the results of a survey of the relationships between statewide agencies and consortia of postsecondary education. The survey indicates a trend toward interrelating consortia and coordinating agencies; however different approaches are being taken. The states of Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia are among the most…

Presented in this document is the text of presentations delivered by the principal speakers at the Colloquium on Higher Education in Connecticut. The colloquium was decided on as one means of accomplishing dual goals: (1) informing the public of the Commission's program for developing a Master Plan for higher education pursuant to the provisions…

There are already a great many bodies devoted wholly or partly to critical scrutiny of California higher education. But it is easy to prove that their combined effort provides only the most superficial evaluation, answering almost none of the basic questions that concern legislators, taxpayers, prospective students, parents and future employers.…