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  title info:
    title: Assessing the potential to expand community college baccalaureate programs in Texas
  name:
    name part: Daugherty, Lindsay
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Goldman, Charles A.
    name part: 1964-
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Butterfield, Lindsay
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Miller, Trey
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Rand Education (Institute)
  name:
    name part: Rand Corporation
    role:
      role term: issuing body.
  name:
    name part: JSTOR (Organization)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (118 pages) : color illustrations
  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 tradeoffs that policymakers face in this regard.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Background -- Research Questions and Methodology -- Identifying Unmet Workforce Needs -- Potential Benefits of Community College Baccalaureate Expansion -- Concerns About Community College Baccalaureate Expansion -- Other Provision Options, Costs, and Funding -- Policy Options for Community College Baccalaureate Expansion -- Recommendations for Process and Supporting Activities -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Interview Protocols and Survey.
  note: LIndsay Daugherty, Charles A. Goldman, Lindsay Butterfield, Trey Miller.
  note: Title from title screen (viewed on August 28, 2014).
  note: "Prepared for the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board."
  note: "The research in this report was produced for the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board by RAND Education."
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 108-112).
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-tx
  subject:
    topic: Nursing
    topic: Study and teaching
  subject:
    topic: Community colleges
    geographic: Texas
  subject:
    topic: Community colleges
  subject:
    topic: Nursing
    topic: Study and teaching
  subject:
    geographic: Texas
  classification: RT71 .D38 2014eb
  classification: 610.73071/1
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    title info:
      title: Assessing the potential to expand community college baccalaureate programs in Texas
    origin info:
      publisher: Santa Monica, CA : Rand Corporation, ©2014
    identifier: (OCoLC)894904963
  identifier: 0833087355
  identifier: 9780833087355
  identifier: 9780833089557
  identifier: 0833089552
  identifier: 22573/ctt13x9vjz JSTOR
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: COO
    record creation date: 090226
    record change date: 20260728172659.9
    record identifier: in00003909849
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng