UESP celebrates 20 years with College Savings Day promotion
The Utah Educational Savings Plan has been helping families save for college for 20 years. UESP ended its first year in 1996 with 157 accounts, one investment option, and $154,000 in managed assets. Twenty years later, UESP has expanded to include 14 investment options, more than 305,000 accounts, and more than $8 billion in assets […]
Strategic Workforce Investment encourages “stackable” academic programs to meet regional workforce needs
SB 103, Strategic Workforce Investments initiative, sponsored by Sen. Ann Millner, creates an incentive program for Utah’s public colleges and universities to regionally expand educational capacity for workforce development in a high-need strategic cluster that prepares students for high-growth and high-wage occupations. This program received an initial $1.5 million in ongoing funds in the 2016 Legislative […]
USHE Affordable Participation and Timely Completion Grant Available
The Utah System of Higher Education Office of Outreach and Access requests applications for the Affordable Participation and Timely Completion Grants Program for fiscal year 2017. The aim of this grant program is to support the Utah State Board of Regents’ goals of providing affordable participation and timely completion to students in Utah’s Colleges and […]
Snow College hosts Leadercast 2016
Last Friday, Snow College served as Utah’s host site for Leadercast 2016, which is the world’s largest one-day leadership event. This event is broadcast live from Atlanta, Georgia, to over 100,000 people in hundreds of locations worldwide. Global leaders are invited to speak to help inspire individuals to become better leaders. Speakers this year included Steve […]
Commencement 2016: U of U, USU, DSU and SLCC celebrate their graduates
Utah’s colleges and universities have been celebrating the accomplishments of their graduates with commencement ceremonies over the past two weeks. See photos from UVU, SUU, WSU & Snow College. University of Utah: 8,359 graduates Bachelor’s: 5,683 Master’s: 2,193 Doctorate: 695 Juris Doctorate: 124 Doctors of Medicine: 81 Doctors of Pharmacy: 57 Utah State University: 6,039 graduates Associate: 1,080 […]
USHE institutions among most efficient in the U.S., according to new report
The State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEO) recently released its annual update on state higher education finance (interactive report here). This report provides a useful state-by-state comparison of funding of public higher education. Nationally, state and local appropriations to higher education increased, on average, 4.1% in 2016 from the prior year. The Utah Legislature appropriated […]
Commencement 2016: UVU, SUU, WSU, & Snow College celebrate their graduates
Utah’s colleges and universities are celebrating the accomplishments of their graduates in commencement ceremonies last week and this week. We will be highlighting photos from institutions in the Utah System of Higher Education in two installments, with the rest of the institutions coming next week. Utah Valley University: 5,409 graduates Certificates: 185 Associate: 2,039 Bachelor’s: 3,079 Master’s: […]
Nearly 48% of Utahns have earned a college degree or certificate
In April, the Lumina Foundation released A Stronger Nation 2016, its annual report of postsecondary attainment nationwide. This report shows that, as of 2014, 47.9% of Utahns aged 25-64 have earned a college degree or certificate. Levels of education for Utah residents, ages 25-64 High-quality certificates In previous years, Lumina has only reported on those earning college degrees (associate, bachelor’s, and […]
Which measures are most effective at placing students in the appropriate college math course?
A recent USHE analysis found that using multiple performance measures (e.g., GPA, ACT score) to successfully place a student in a general education math course is key to successful course completion. Furthermore, a student’s cumulative GPA is the most significant academic performance predictor of success in general education math courses that fulfill the USHE Quantitative […]
Grant program aims to increase number of qualified teachers for concurrent enrollment classes
Each year, more than 30,000 of Utah’s high school juniors and seniors earn nearly 200,000 college credit hours by participating in the Concurrent Enrollment (CE) program, saving nearly $29 million in college tuition. SB 196: Math Competency Initiative (Millner/Gibson), passed during the 2015 legislative session, encourages all college-going high school students to complete their college-level quantitative literacy (math) […]
