At their 102nd annual meeting in Boston this weekend, West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin III becam
e chair of the National Governors Association (NGA). Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman was named NGA Vice Chair. During the meeting Gov. Manchin announced his new initiative, Complete to Compete, which focuses on increasing the number of students in the United States who complete college degrees and certificates and improving the productivity of the country’s higher education institutions.
“My initiative will bring together governors, higher education executive officers, campus leaders and corporate CEOs to make marked improvements in college completion and productivity and get our country back on track to produce a successful workforce for the future,†said Gov. Manchin.
Complet
e to Compete will create a set of common higher education completion and productivity measures that governors and higher education leaders can use to monitor state progress and to compare their performance to other states and between institutions. These proposed measures can be found in Complete to Compete: Common College Completion Metrics. This report will be followed in the coming weeks by a technical guide for states.
The Complete to Compete initiative will also:
- Develop a series of best practices and a list of policy actions governors can take to achieve increased college completion;
- Provide support to states to design policies and programs that increase college completion and improve higher education productivity and serve as models for other states around the country; and
- Hold a learning institute for governors’ senior advisors in education, workforce and economic development focusing on successful state strategies to graduate more students and meet workforce demands.
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