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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED272079 AUTHOR:
TITLE: Excellence and Accountability. Report of the
Governor's Task Force on Higher Education Reform.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1986
NOTE: 146 p.
ABSTRACT: A task force report recommends ways to promote
educational reform in higher education in New Mexico. Forty
recommendations address the following areas: institutional
missions, academic excellence and accountability, community
colleges, student financial aid, affirmative action,
economic development, capital outlay, and funding issues.
Specific considerations include: statewide planning,
outcomes of college programs, program review and approval,
admission standards and access, remedial education,
community college students and programs, community college
governance and articulation issues, federal and state
student financial aid, percentage of degrees earned by
different ethnic groups, student and employee ethnicity,
business and personnel training needs, enhancement of high
demand degrees, enhancement of high quality research,
industrial parks and centers for technical excellence,
capital outlay funding sources, capital outlay
responsibilities, formula funding issues, student tuition,
enhancement for regional and research institutions, and
impact of recommended tuition increase. Appended is a
summary of testimony to the Governor's Task Force on Higher
Education Reform. (SW)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Accountability-; Advisory-Committees;
Articulation-Education; Blue-Ribbon-Commissions; Capital
Outlay-for-Fixed-Assets; Change-Strategies; Community
Colleges; Economic-Development; Educational-Quality;
Financial-Support; Institutional-Mission; School-Business
Relationship; State-Colleges; Tuition-
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Affirmative-Action; *Educational-Change;
*Educational-Finance; *Higher-Education; *Statewide
Planning; *Student-Financial-Aid
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