This publication provides governmental and higher education decision-makers a statewide perspective of Arkansas public higher education finance for the 2021-23 biennium, as well as trends for the past several years. It also contains a detailed financial profile of each institution and presents a basis for comparative assessments of revenue sources…

This study examines the efforts of higher education systems in six states to implement large-scale changes to improve student outcomes in mathematics in community colleges and four-year colleges and universities as part of the Mathematics Pathways to Completion (MPC) project. The three-year project was launched in 2015 to help Arkansas,…

This report documents the results to date of reforms underway from Strong Start Arkansas, one of the six systems that make up the first phase of the Strong Start to Finish initiative, an initiative of Education Commission of the States. Building on previous initiatives, Strong Start Arkansas (SSARK) was created as a partnership between the…

With the significant pressure placed on higher education administrators, and more specifically Title IX Coordinators, to manage compliance of the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) guidance on Title IX, this study has focused on the perceptions of the of individuals tasked with this obligation. To determine from the individuals on the front line of…

Outsourcing--defined as an "institution's decision to contract with an external organization to provide a traditional function or service" (IHEP, 2005)--is nothing new to higher education. For decades, institutions have been "contracting out" or "privatizing" a variety of operational functions, hoping to reduce costs,…

This State Profile from the Delta Cost Project presents data on key Delta metrics for public research, master's, bachelor's, and community college sectors in the state of Arkansas. The data are limited to a five-year period, showing data for the most recent year, and the five-year change.

The 23 tables and associated figures in this document summarize the annual student semester credit hour (SSCH) production for all of Arkansas' public higher education in 1994-1995. Several tables include these enrollment data in terms of full-time equivalencies (FTEs), calculated by dividing undergraduate SSCH by 30 or graduate SSCH by 24. While…

Comparative financial data for Arkansas' public two-year colleges are presented in the areas of educational and general revenues, expenditures, and transfers. The report provides information necessary for line item comparisons and for the discernment of emerging financial trends. Major categories covered in this publication are: (1) total current…

Information on the geographic and institutional origins of students at Arkansas state and private colleges and universities in fall 1984 is presented in tabular, geographic, and narrative form. Entering students numbered 13,072 in fall 1983, a 3.32% decline from the fall 1982 figure of 13,521. The college-bound rate of Arkansas high school…