Tennessee Higher Education Fact Book: 2019-2020
Author: Tennessee Higher Education Commission, Tennessee Student Assistance Corporation (THEC/TSAC)
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Reports - Evaluative
Subjects: Higher Education,Enrollment,Public Colleges,Private Colleges,Technical Institutes,Proprietary Schools,Community Colleges,Full Time Equivalency,Withdrawal (Education),Two Year College Students,College Students,Gender Differences,Racial Differences,Ethnicity,Age Differences,Student Financial Aid,Federal Aid,Grants,Part Time Students,Full Time Students,Majors (Students),College Entrance Examinations,Federal Legislation,Student Loan Programs,College Transfer Students,Remedial Instruction,School Holding Power,Graduation,Academic Degrees,Graduation Rate,Job Placement,College Graduates,Scores,Licensing Examinations (Professions),Student Satisfaction,Educational Finance,College Programs,Accreditation (Institutions),College Admission,College Faculty,Teacher Salaries,Tuition,Fees,Student Costs,Family Income,State Aid,Debt (Financial),Loan Default,Scholarships,Funding Formulas,State Programs,Academic Persistence,Quality Assurance,Financial Support

In January 2010, the General Assembly passed the Complete College Tennessee Act (CCTA), a comprehensive reform agenda seeking to transform public higher education through changes in academic, fiscal, and administrative policies at the state and institutional levels. While the higher education landscape has been shaped by the CCTA, it is also evolving with the adoption of the &quot;Drive to 55,&quot; and the FOCUS Act, which alters the governance structure of higher education by giving six universities, previously under the Tennessee Board of Regents, independent governing boards. This year, Tennessee Higher Education Commission (THEC) released an update to the 2015-2025 Master Plan entitled &quot;Enabling the Competitive Edge: Tennessee Higher Education in the New Economy.&quot; The update on Tennessee's higher education landscape and progress toward the &quot;Drive to 55&quot; emphasizes three domains: student success, family prosperity, and the future workforce. This Fact Book includes the following performance categories and illustrative indicators: (1) Student preparation, such as admission rates, freshman class profiles, and learning support placement and success rates, by subject area; (2) Student participation, such as college-going rates, overall enrollment, and enrollment by critical student subpopulations; (3) Student progression, such as end-of-term enrollment counts, freshman-to-sophomore retention rates, the number of students passing credit hour benchmarks under the higher education funding formula and lottery scholarship renewal rates; (4) Student success and completion, such as student transfer activity and subsequent academic performance, graduation rates, time to degree, credentials awarded, and credentials awarded per one hundred (100) full-time equivalent enrolled students; (5) Workforce participation, such as labor market supply and demand, employer satisfaction survey results, job placement rates, and licensure passage rates; (6) Academic trends, such as student engagement survey results, changes to the academic program inventory, low-producing academic programs, the number and percentage of accredited programs, and the percentage of lower division instructional courses taught by full-time faculty, part-time faculty, and graduate assistants; (7) Financing trends, such as state appropriation levels and net tuition revenues, state and total subsidies per student, and degree costs; and (8) Affordability trends, such as in-state and out-of-state tuition rates, net costs of attendance, and need-based and merit-based student financial aid. [For &quot;Tennessee Higher Education Fact Book: 2018-19,&quot; see ED599417.]