Presentation to the Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee of the 2014 Utah Legislatures. Remarks by Commissioner David L. Buhler regarding the budget of the Board of Regents (less than 2% of the overall USHE budget) and an overview of the Utah Data Alliance initiative.

1. Opening Graphic

2. UTAH STATE BOARD OF REGENTS
BASE BUDGET
David L. Buhler
Commissioner of Higher Education
January 31, 2014

3. State & Local Public Higher Education Support
Per Full-time Equivalent Student
$7,500
Utah
$7,106
U.S. Avg.
$7,000
$6,296
$6,500
$6,290
$6,000
$5,756
$5,500
$5,119
$5,383
$5,000
$5,338
$5,048
$4,500
Source: National Center for Higher Education Management Systems
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
1999
1998
1997
1996
1995
1991
$4,000

4. Board of Regents Budget Overview
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Entirely appropriated dollars (no tuition)
3 uses of dollars:
 Pass-through programs (technology,
scholarships, etc.)
 Personnel (Commissioner’s Office)
 Statewide initiatives

5. 20 Budget lines
Engineering Initiative
Acad. Library
Consortium
Utah Medical Education
Council
Concurrent Enrollment
Coordination
Articulation Support
Economic Development
Admin.
Education
Excellence
Federal Programs
Campus Compact
Higher Ed. Technology
Initiative
Regents Scholar
Hearing
Impaired
T.H. Bell
Teacher Incentive Loan
Program
WICHE
Student Financial Aid
New Century
Scholar
Success Stipend
Minority Scholarship

6. Pass-through vs. Board Administration
Commissioner’s
Office
14%
Pass-through
Programs
86%

7. % of Overall Higher Education (USHE)
Budget
Commissioner’s
Office
.3%
Pass-through
Programs
1.83%

8. Pass-through
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Regents’ Scholarship
New Century Scholarship
Student Financial Aid
Minority Scholarship
Western Undergraduate
Exchange
T.H. Bell Teacher Incentive
Hearing Impaired Support
Campus Compact
Higher Ed Tech. Initiative
Library Consortium
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TICE
Utah Women in Education
Initiative
Engineering & Computer
Science Initiative
Engineering Scholarship
Utah Medical Education
Council
Performance Funding

9. Board of Regents
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Statewide policy/governance
Statewide scholarship programs
Program review and approval process
Budget support between state and institutions
Presidential searches (5 searches in 2 years)
Articulation
Concurrent Enrollment
State-level economic development cooperation
Data warehouse and reporting
Strategic planning
Information requests from Legislators/Governor
Statewide initiatives
 College Readiness (Step Up)
 Completion

10. Efficiencies
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4 Associate Commissioners to 2
Consolidated Planning and Institutional Research
functions with Finance, Facilities
Consolidated Economic Development and Student Affairs
functions with Academic Affairs
Concerted effort to update Regent policies (some over 30
years old)
Reduced number of Board of Regents meetings from
over 10 to 6 annually

11. Opening Graphic

12. THE UTAH DATA ALLIANCE
USHE PERSPECTIVE

13. USHE’s long history of publishing data
Data book - annually published since 1987
(2002-2014 online)
USHE Data warehouse built in 1999
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Facilities
CTE
Degrees
/Certificates
Cost Study
Tuition/Fees
Staffing
Budget History
Scholarships
Comparisons
Financial aid
Enrollments
Salary Information
Relied upon by state and national entities
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Legislature, institutions, media
IPEDs, National Clearing House, Complete College
America, WICHE

14. Utah Data Alliance Partners
Utah’s State Longitudinal Data System (SLDS)
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Legacy system managed by K-12
6 Grant Partner Agencies
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Utah State Office of Education (USOE) -- Lead
Utah System of Higher Education (USHE)
Utah College of Applied Technology (UCAT)
Utah Educational Network (UEN) -- IT Support provider
Utah Educational Policy Center – College of Education,
Univ. of Utah
Utah Department of Workforce Services (DWS)

15. Utah Data Alliance Grant Overview
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Grant awarded to 47 states (between 2006-2009)
Utah awarded grant in 2009
Extension in 2013
Expires June 30, 2014
USHE portion: 1 FTE
Utah is far ahead of most states
Longitudinal data is a major part of USHE’s Completion
Initiative

16. UDA Initiatives
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Chronic Absenteeism in K-12
Inter-generational Poverty
Post-Secondary Enrollment/Retention rates by
County/District
Mathematics Remediation
Governor’s ―PACE‖ metrics (STEM focused)
1st and 5th Year Wage Information by degree/certificate

17. Potential
First time large legacy data systems have been
connected
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Shared objective to get information to the public
A lot of data quality verification - slow, labor intensive
Best practices/procedures established

18. WAGE DATA

19. Benefits of Using Wage Data
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Macro-level snapshot of the industries postsecondary
graduates are employed
Historical trends of aggregated wage and educational
attainment data by industry
Utilizes state level data

20. UDA Wage Information History
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Data first compiled July 2013, shared at August Education
Interim Committee by USOE
Culmination of two years of work to enable large legacy
data systems to ―talk‖ to each other
First time Utah specific wage data and USHE
degree/certificate information have been merged by
matching individual records
USHE web interactive of wage data by degree/certificate
and by institution—January 2014

21. Wage Records Limitations
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Only quarterly wages
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Only contains industry information
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No hourly wage or hours worked
Based on quarterly wage reports estimated to an annual level
No job titles – Cannot verify that an individual with a degree in a
health-related program is performing a healthcare related job
function
No employer - A healthcare organization employs more than
just employees with a degree/certificate in health-related
college programs
Only includes wage info in DWS Unemployment
Insurance (UI) Database
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UI wage data accounts for only part of the state’s wage earners
Only an estimated 50% of DWS UI data provides a workable
match to a USHE 1st-year degree holder

22. Wage Records Limitations
Incomplete Wage Information
All wage earners
that graduate from
a Utah institution

23. Wage Records Limitations
Incomplete Wage Information
All wage earners
that graduate from
a Utah institution
Employed in Utah,
reported to DWS

24. Wage Records Limitations
Incomplete Wage Information
All wage earners
that graduate from
a Utah institution
Employed
out of
state
em
Unemployed or
not in workforce
Military, federal
government, self
-employed
Employed in Utah,
reported to DWS
No SSN

25. Wage Records Limitations
Incomplete Wage Information
All wage earners
that graduate from
a Utah institution
Employed
out of
state
em
Unemployed or
not in workforce
Military, federal
government, self
-employed
Known
Employed in Utah (via DWS)
No SSN

26. Other Wage Data “Unknowns”
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Previous job experience
Previous degrees (before 2003)
Relationship to employer (family business?)
Multiple jobs
Hours worked
Geographic factors (rural vs. urban)

27. USHE’s interest in Longitudinal Data
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Data gap between high school and college information
Informing students with relevant employment and info
associated with degrees/programs of study
Example: High School Feedback report pilot
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Davis
Granite
Ogden
Provo

28. higheredutah.org/reports/
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Utah wage information by field of study
Where are Utah college graduates employed?