Cooperative Alliances

Purpose Policy issues Complete College America

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Cooperative Alliances

Cooperative Alliances are voluntary partnerships between AAS degree-granting institutions and technology centers to allow qualified high school students and adults to earn college credit for certain technical courses reviewed by the higher education partner and taught by the technology center.

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TechnologyCenter

Goals1. More high school students to

college

2. More adults to begin and/or continue

3. Expand access

4. Efficiently use public dollars

Cooperative Alliance Model

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TechnologyCenter

Driving principle:

Student-centered, not institution-centered

Cooperative Alliance Model

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TechnologyCenter

Policy Issues

Accreditation

Financial aid

Others?

Cooperative Alliance Model

COMPLETE COLLEGE AMERICA• Oklahoma is one of 29 states accepted to participate in the Complete College America

project to help more Americans achieve their dream of a college education.

• Complete College America (CCA) is complemented by the work of the National Governors Association and its Complete to Compete (CtC) initiative.  By virtue of Oklahoma’s participation in the Complete College America Alliance, Oklahoma is considered to be actively involved in both projects.

• Oklahoma was accepted because the State has made a commitment to significantly increase the number of students successfully completing college and closing educational attainment gaps for traditionally underserved populations. 

• Five national foundations are providing multi-year support to CCA: the Carnegie Corporation; the Gates Foundation; the Ford Foundation; the Kellogg Foundation; and Lumina Foundation for Education.

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Complete College AmericaA Plan for Increasing Postsecondary Credentials to Fuel a Strong Economy

1 FOCUS ON READINESS Higher education and K-12 will work together to develop and implement a strategy that seeks to identify students not on target to be college-ready by graduation and targets activities in the 11th and 12th grades to reduce remediation demands in the transition from high school to college.

2 TRANSFORM REMEDIATIONEvery Oklahoma institution will implement transformational models of remedial placement and support through a statewide phased implementation and refinement process.

3 BUILD BRIDGES TO CERTIFICATES & DEGREES

Develop and implement a "Program Equivalent Project" that bridges Career Tech credit hour completion to certificate and A.A.S. degree completion in the community colleges.

4 REACH HIGHER FOR ADULT COMPLETION

Further expand and develop Reach Higher as a degree and certificate completion effort that involves the entire system of postsecondary education.

5 TRACK & REWARD PROGRESS & COMPLETION

Reform Oklahoma’s successful Brain Gain Performance Funding Program to provide metrics and accountability for measuring state and campus progress toward completion goals.

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Cooperative Alliance Enrollments

 Fall

2005 *Spring2006 *

Fall2006

Spring2007

Fall2007

Spring2008

Fall2008

Spring2009

Fall2009

Spring2010

Fall2010

Spring2011

Fall2011

Spring2012

# HS Students 316 310 1,919 1,878 2,127 2,329 2,361 2,376 2,153 1,583 2,203 1,907 2,266 2,016

Credit Hours-HS Students 1,782 1,728 12,854 15,717 14,070 17,385 15,763 16,672 14,235 10,710 14,739 15,265 14,117 13,851

# HS Fee Waiver

Students n/a n/a 730 746 1,065 1,055 1,280 1,193 1,151 0 1,124 890 n/a n/a

Credit Hours-Fee Waivers n/a n/a 5,187 6,511 7,196 8,298 8,976 8,856 8,064 0 7,768 7,031 n/a n/a

# Adult Students 646 552 2,315 2,253 2,438 2,308 2,426 2,219 2,645 2,321 2,607 2,199 2,594 2,276

Credit Hours-Adult Students 5,275 3,979 23,071 22,361 23,485 23,652 23,350 22,072 25,024 23,433 24,712 22,985 25,000 23,402

# TechnologyCenters 3 3 26 26 28 28 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29

# Colleges/ Universities 3 3 16 16 16 16 18 18 18 18 18 18 16 16

Total # Students 962 862 4,234 4,131 4,565 4,637 4,787 4,595 4,798 3,904 4,810 4,106 4,860 4,292

Total Credit Hours 7,057 5,707 35,925 38,078 37,555 41,037 39,113 38,744 39,259 34,143 39,451 38,250 39,117 37,253

Fee Waiver Reimbursemen

t Total n/a n/a$41,49

6$52,08

8$57,56

8$66,38

4$71,80

8$70,84

8$64,51

2 $0$62,14

7$56,24

8 n/a n/a

A.A.S. Degrees

Associate in Applied Science Degrees Conferred

Alliance Institutions 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11CASC 74 70 58 55 57 50CSC 86 67 72 78 76 71CU 77 78 67 63 72 61EOSC 73 39 70 82 72 56MSC 122 117 104 126 132 128NEOAMC 88 86 88 93 103 120NOC 141 158 202 191 177 212OCCC 366 434 395 477 389 374OPSU 3 7 3 2 5 7OSU-OKC 447 435 380 454 544 367OSUIT 383 376 351 376 391 456RCC 118 103 95 70 84 65ROSE 267 278 268 300 274 272RSU 84 79 79 79 88 92SSC 52 59 46 39 50 35SWOSU 39 47 43 43 41 48TCC 425 429 410 373 401 466WOSC 119 119 133 129 124 128Total, Alliance Inst 2,964 2,981 2,864 3,030 3,080 3,008

College Certificates

  2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11CASC 51 35 43 54 57 27CSC 40 11 7 14 5 4CU            EOSC 18 9 2 3 9 7MSC 3 8 6 8 2 0NEOAMC 11 11 24 36 25 45NOC            OCCC 91 147 54 123 182 149OPSU            OSUIT            OSU-OKC 76 24 37 26 25 27RCC 43 23 39 26 19 23ROSE 7 13 5 6 8 10RSU            SSC 0 0 15 19 38 26SWOSU            TCC 293 279 296 255 297 261WOSC 15 12 25 28 10 7Total 648 572 553 598 677 586