Assessing the Potential to Expand Community College Baccalaureate Programs in Texas

Autor/inn/en	Daugherty, Lindsay; Goldman, Charles A.; Butterfield, Lindsay; Miller, Trey
Institution	Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board; RAND Education
Titel	Assessing the Potential to Expand Community College Baccalaureate Programs in Texas
Quelle	(2014), (119 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Community Colleges; Bachelors Degrees; Career Academies; Labor Force Development; Educational Needs; Nursing Education; Science Education; Distance Education; Information Technology; Fire Science Education; Health Services; Paraprofessional Personnel; Texas + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Community college; Community College; 'Bachelor''s degrees'; Bachelor-Studiengang; Berufsakademie; Arbeitskräftebestand; Educational need; Bildungsbedarf; Pflegepädagogik; Naturwissenschaftliche Bildung; Distance study; Distance learning; Fernunterricht; Informationstechnologie; Fire prevention education; Brandschutzerziehung; Health service; Gesundheitsdienst; Gesundheitswesen; Laienhelfer
Abstract	Many workforce-development needs, particularly those requiring baccalaureate degrees, remain unmet in some areas of Texas. Employers and students are calling for additional programs to develop workplace skills and to provide opportunities for career advancement. On May 22, 2013, the Texas Legislature approved a bill mandating a study on whether community college baccalaureate degree programs should be expanded in Texas. The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board asked the RAND Corporation to partner with the Texas Higher Education Policy Initiative to conduct the study. In this report, the authors assess unmet workforce-development needs in nursing and the applied sciences, assess the arguments for and against baccalaureate expansion, and recommend potential activities to support implementation of any new policies undertaken to expand community college baccalaureate programs. They find significant need for more baccalaureate nurses, although rapidly growing distance learning programs may be able to meet this need. The authors find varying needs for the four applied science occupations they examined: computer and information technology, management of fire sciences, management of production/operations technicians, and health information technology. While expanding community college baccalaureate degree programs could help meet unmet needs and increase degree attainment among students, there are concerns about costs, mission creep at community colleges, counterproductive competition between community colleges and universities, and a decline in the overall quality of a Texas baccalaureate. The authors discuss the inherent trade-offs that policymakers face in this regard. Interview Protocols and Survey are appended. [The research in this report was produced for the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board by RAND Education, a unit of the RAND Corporation, and the Texas Higher Education Policy Initiative (HEPI).] (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01