A Closer Look at Public Higher Education in South Carolina
A Closer Look at Public Higher Education in South Carolina

Author: South Carolina Commission on Higher Education, Columbia

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Published: 2007

Total Pages: 134

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This publication provides a closer look at data reported annually by South Carolina's public institutions of higher education as part of institutional effectiveness reporting and as part of the process of performance funding. Prior to the January 2000 edition, this document was entitled "Minding Our P's and Q's: Indications of Productivity and Quality in South Carolina Public Colleges and Universities." In January 2000, the South Carolina Commission on Higher Education (CHE) substantially revised this publication in efforts to provide a source guide integrating data reported by the state's public colleges and universities in fulfillment of legislative requirements. In this report, the reader will find 11 sections highlighting various aspects of higher education. Sections 1 through 9 reflect the nine "critical success factors" identified by the General Assembly for South Carolina's public colleges and universities (Section 59-103-30). Data from both institutional effectiveness and performance funding reporting are combined in these sections. Often the data is presented by type of institution or sector, as identified in the legislation. The four sectors of institutions as defined in legislation are: (1) Research Universities; (2) Four-Year Colleges and Universities; (3) Two-Year Institutions-Branches of the University of South Carolina; and (4) State Technical and Comprehensive Education System. The CHE maintains historical data on institutions and when appropriate, three years of data are presented for comparison. Section 10, "Campus-Based Assessment," includes a summary of other institutional effectiveness reporting and the web addresses where detailed institutional reports are located. Finally, Section 11 contains each institution's performance ratings as approved by the CHE on June 2, 2005. These ratings affected the allocation of state appropriations for the 2005-2006 fiscal year. (Contains 15 tables and 21 figures.) [For the 2006 edition of this report, see ED492911.].

A Closer Look at Public Higher Education in South Carolina
A Closer Look at Public Higher Education in South Carolina

Author: South Carolina Commission on Higher Education, Columbia

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Published: 2008

Total Pages: 127

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This publication provides a closer look at data reported annually by South Carolina's public institutions of higher education as part of institutional effectiveness reporting and as part of the process of performance funding. Prior to the January 2000 edition, this document was entitled "Minding Our P's and Q's: Indications of Productivity and Quality in South Carolina Public Colleges and Universities." In January 2000, the South Carolina Commission on Higher Education (CHE) substantially revised this publication in efforts to provide a source guide integrating data reported by the state's public colleges and universities in fulfillment of legislative requirements. In this report, the reader will find 11 sections highlighting various aspects of higher education. Sections 1 through 9 reflect the nine "critical success factors" identified by the General Assembly for South Carolina's public colleges and universities (Section 59-103-30). Data from both institutional effectiveness and performance funding reporting are combined in these sections. Often the data is presented by type of institution or sector, as identified in the legislation. The four sectors of institutions as defined in legislation are: (1) Research Universities; (2) Four-Year Colleges and Universities; (3) Two-Year Institutions-Branches of the University of South Carolina; and (4) State Technical and Comprehensive Education System. The CHE maintains historical data on institutions and when appropriate, three years of data are presented for comparison. Section 10, "Campus-Based Assessment," includes a summary of other institutional effectiveness reporting and the web addresses where detailed institutional reports are located. Finally, Section 11 contains each institution's performance ratings as approved by the CHE on June 2, 2005. These ratings affected the allocation of state appropriations for the 2005-2006 fiscal year. (Contains 15 tables and 17 figures.) [For the 2007 edition of this report, see ED500526.].

A Closer Look at Public Higher Education in South Carolina
A Closer Look at Public Higher Education in South Carolina

Author: Garrison Walters

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Published: 2009

Total Pages: 115

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This report provides an annual overview of data reported by South Carolina's public institutions of higher education as part of institutional effectiveness reporting and as part of the process of performance funding. Prior to the January 2000 edition, this document was entitled "Minding Our P's and Q's: Indications of Productivity and Quality in South Carolina Public Colleges and Universities." In January 2000, the South Carolina Commission on Higher Education (CHE) substantially revised this publication in efforts to provide a source guide integrating data reported by the state's public colleges and universities in fulfillment of legislative requirements. The CHE integrated institutional effectiveness data reporting with performance data measured pursuant to Section 59-103-30 and Section 59-103-45 of the South Carolina Code of Laws, 1976, as amended, to determine institutional funding levels. Data related to the funding process reflect the 2006-2007 performance year. Throughout this publication, data are displayed on the 33 public institutions of higher education within groupings of institutions or sectors that have common missions as identified in Act 359 of 1996. However, due to the uniqueness in mission of each individual institution, the reader is cautioned against drawing conclusions and making comparisons solely based on the figures and tables found in this report. This report contain 11 sections. Sections 1-9 reflect the nine "critical success factors" identified by the General Assembly for South Carolina's public colleges and universities (Section 59-103-30). Data from both institutional effectiveness and performance funding reporting are combined in these sections. Section 10, "Campus-Based Assessment," includes a summary of other institutional effectiveness reporting and the web addresses where detailed institutional reports are located. Section 11 provides links to institutions' performance ratings. (Contains 16 figures and 15 tables.) [For the 2008 edition of this report, see ED500527.].

Brick Walls
Brick Walls

Author: Thomas E. Truitt

Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 9781570036385

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In 1987, when veteran school administrator Thomas E. Truitt took the post of district superintendent in Florence, South Carolina, he assumed leadership of a public school system in denial of its racial disharmony. More than three decades after Brown v. Board of Education, Florence District One had never accomplished an integration plan that met federal approval; rather the district had skirted the intent of the federal mandate by employing freedom of choice and traditional attendance zones. In the 1990s, a single issue - the need to replace an aging, predominantly black elementary school - brought to the fore the local population's anguished attitudes about race and education. Brick Walls and Other Barriers recounts in wrenching detail how legacies of discrimination and injustice combined to divide a community along racial lines. Truitt takes readers into the complex inner workings of a modern school system, detailing the relationships between school boards and professional administrators to which few parents or citizens are privy.