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  title info:
    title: Assessing the potential to expand community college baccalaureate programs in Texas
    sub title: executive summary
  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: 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 (18 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. This report summarizes a longer research report in which 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.
  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.
  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 .D382 2014eb
  classification: 610.730711
  identifier: 0833087363
  identifier: 9780833087362
  identifier: 9780833089526
  identifier: 0833089528
  identifier: 22573/ctt13xbbfm JSTOR
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: COO
    record creation date: 090226
    record change date: 20260728172519.0
    record identifier: in00003909850
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng