Planning and Policy Analysis

Policies analysis is multifaceted. As outlined by Patton, Sawicki, & Clark (2013) it involves several steps including problem identification, determining policy objectives, establishing evaluation criteria, suggesting and assessing possible alternatives, and implementing, monitoring, and evaluating new policies or revisions. Evidence based policy analysis is about generating/gathering facts, exploring options and helping identify productive paths forward when addressing complex interconnected issues and challenges. A reasoned, evidence-based review of possible approaches is used to articulate, examine, and evaluate options. Strengths and weaknesses are identified based on the initiatives intended outcome/policy objectives that maintains compliance with external mandates and builds on internal priorities. The intent is to optimize and agree on productive approaches, implement them to expedite goal attainment and monitor/assess progress and performance. Another aspect of policy analysis focuses on reviewing the formal mandatory framework of standards under which the institution manages its affairs. Organizational policies identify and codify the institution’s established approach for complying with external requirements and benefit from periodic review and updating.

• Grant Development Process
• Consumer Information
• MDC Manual of Policy
• MDC Manual of Procedure

• CWP is designed to provide job opportunities to local Miami Dade County residents of traditionally underserved and underdeveloped neighborhoods.

• Dedicated to the advancement of research leading to improved understanding, planning, and operation of institutions of post-secondary education. SAIR provides a forum for the dissemination of information and interchange of ideas on problems of common interest in the field of institutional research, planning and assessment.

• Working with states to improve public education at every level.

• The Miami-Dade Beacon Council, a public-private partnership, is the official economic development organization for Miami-Dade County.

• SACS is the regional body for the accreditation of degree-granting higher education institutions in the Southern states.

• CareerSource South Florida is responsible for initiating state and federally funded workforce development programs in Miami-Dade and Monroe counties. CareerSource South Florida assists employers and job seekers with employment services, labor market information, and provide training for economically disadvantaged adults, youth, dislocated workers, individuals transitioning from welfare to work, and refugees.

• CPS at Florida State University provides support and fosters collaboration among those who are interested in conducting research on student success and institutional effectiveness, and to identify and evaluate potential institutional, state, and federal policies and programs that may serve to improve those outcomes.

• The primary purpose of the Florida Association for Institutional Research (FAIR) is to serve professionals in post-secondary education institutions and agencies whose interests include research, planning, and policy analysis.

• EDStats: Interactive Reporting

• Follow-up Reports (Job Placement for Completers)

• Information about college and universities in the state of Florida.

• Florida Department of Economic Opportunity

• A nonprofit mentoring, college success, and college scholarship organization dedicated to transforming Florida one student at a time. Working statewide throughout Florida, our mission is to break the cycle of poverty for low-income, underrepresented, academically qualified students by providing opportunities for degree attainment through postsecondary education.

• Provides short analysis of topics impacting community colleges from a national perspective.

• A national, nonprofit leader in championing evidence-based institutional improvement through a long-term, sustainable commitment to improving student success.

• Delivers more in-depth coverage of issues and trends impacting community colleges from a national perspective.

• Provides an open learning space with content for faculty and assessment professionals through resources and tools that support student learning outcomes assessment, teaching and learning, program review and accreditation.

• AIR is a global association that empowers higher education professionals at all levels to utilize data, analytics, information, and evidence to make decisions and take actions that benefit students and institutions and improve higher education.

• PayScale’s College Salary Report helps individuals research schools, majors, and careers to discover which fields of study offer the most income potential, as well which are most transferable to different career paths.

• CDS provides a clear, standard data items and definitions to determine a specific cohort relevant to each item. Data items and definitions used by the U.S. Department of Education in its higher education surveys often serve as a guide in the continued development of the CDS.

• An independent research organization that studies community colleges and their potential to improve educational equity and social mobility in the United States.

• Excelencia in Education is redoubling its efforts to ensure that:1) the issues surrounding Latinos’ status and success in higher education are widely known and gain urgency; 2) the solutions and tools for implementation are broadly understood; and 3) the network of results-oriented advocates ready to leverage change grows.

• The Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce (CEW) is an independent, nonprofit research and policy institute that studies the link between education, career qualifications, and workforce demands.

• The IPEDS Trend Generator is a fast and simple way to view Integrated Postsecondary Education Data Systems (IPEDS) federal and state data over time.

• A national nonprofit that drives change in the American workforce and education systems to achieve economic advancement for all.

• The living wage calculator was created to estimate the cost of living in local communities and regions based on typical expenses and family unit size.

• Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP)
• College Navigator
• Data Lab
• Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) Data Center

• The National Community College Benchmark Project provides institutions with access to the most comprehensive set of indicators available for measuring and comparing performance, charting accountability, and supporting continuous improvement (includes 6 modules and 500+behchmarks).

• An independent research organization that studies community colleges and their potential to improve educational equity and social mobility in the United States.

• SCUP is a professional association that create a range of learning opportunities, from publications to our annual SCUP conference, for our community to share perspectives, resources, best practices, and fresh ideas that move challenges to solutions—building upon a culture of integrated planning.

• An international nonprofit organization dedicated to cultivating improvement and advancement among community colleges.

• SACS is the regional body for the accreditation of degree-granting higher education institutions in the Southern states.

• College Scorecard
• Federal Student Aid - Three-year Official Cohort Default Rates for Schools
• Office of Postsecondary Education – Federal TRIO Programs Low-Income Levels
• The Nation's Report Card

• Chrisinger, David. (2022). Public Policy Writing That Matters. Baltimore, MD: Hopkins Press. https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/12432/public-policy-writing-matters
• Dunn, William N. (2018). Public Policy Analysis: An Integrated Approach (Sixth Edition). New York, NY: Routledge - Taylor & Francis. https://www.routledge.com/Public-Policy-Analysis-An-Integrated-Approach/Dunn/p/book/9781138743847
• Patton, Carl V., Sawicki, David S. & Clark, Jennifer J. (2013). Basic Methods of Policy Analysis and Planning (Third Edition). New York, NY: Routledge - Taylor & Francis. http://surjonopwkub.lecture.ub.ac.id/files/2019/01/Basic_Methods_of_Policy_Analysis_and_Planing.pdf
• Wildavsky, Aaron. (1979). The Art and Craft of Policy Analysis. London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-349-04955-4

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• Office of Accreditation
• Assessment, Evaluation, and Testing
• Business Intelligence Analytics and Reporting
• Institutional Research

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