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Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, 3035 Center Green Drive, Suite 200, Boulder, CO 80301 | Publication Number ECMC005pb26  \nStrategies to Support Collaboration, Efficiencies, and Better-Informed Decision Making  \nT hrough WICHE’s landscape  \nanalysis of completion strategies in the West, including a review of state strategic plans and stakeholder focus groups, a theme emerged:  \nstates recognize opportunities for cross-institutional collaboration, as well as adapting and developing structures to better support student success.1 While these strategies are not typically classified as completion strategies in the same way as those discussed in the ‘student-centered’ or ‘academic  success’ briefs, it became clear that states are prioritizing this coordination and are modifying structures and state-level decisionmaking to address barriers to student progress through higher education. Examples of these efforts include cross-institution collaboration through course sharing, supporting coordination on key policy areas, and state-level decision-making that adjusts and  \nevolves state-level structures such  \nas data systems and funding models to align with completion priorities. Collectively, these  \nKey Coordination, Collaboration, and Structures Strategies Across the West  \nCourse Sharing  \nResource & Knowledge Sharing  \nFunding Structures  \nstrategies and adaptations create opportunities for states to leverage policies and practices to build a higher education system that better supports students and equips leaders with data and evidence to make more informed decisions.  \n 2  COMPLETION STRATEGIES IN THE WEST: COORDINATION, COLLABORATION & STRUCTURES  \nhandshake  \nCollaboration and Coordination  \nAccording to WICHE’s Knocking at the College Door report, the number of high school graduates in the United States is projected to decline after 2025.2 Fewer high school graduates will have several implications, as institutions will face increasing competition for fewer students and states will need to prioritize efficient, effective completion strategies to mitigate projected population declines. States can meet these challenges through a number of interventions, including cross-institutional collaboration and resource sharing. In WICHE’s landscape analysis, states demonstrated variety in both their identification and their approach to this work, based on the governance and structure of higher education within each state or system. For example, the California State University’s new strategic plan leverages the “system-ness” of the CSU system to develop a set of system-level priorities focused on cross-institutional alignment to better support students. Alternatively, the Colorado Department of Higher Education, a statewide coordinating agency, focuses on creating structures that foster communication and coordination not only across higher education institutions and systems but also across state-level agencies.  \n COURSE SHARING  \nCourse sharing enables institutions to collaborate on course offerings and allows students from one institution to take a course at another institution to receive  \nAbout the Landscape Analysis  \nAs states across the region explore how to enhance the value proposition of higher education, it has become clear that credential completion is a critical component of delivering a valuable postsecondary experience. This WICHE Insights is part of a series of policy briefs that highlight various postsecondary completion strategies across the WICHE region. These briefs present findings from a landscape analysis of completion approaches in the West, which involved reviewing strategic plans and conducting fo","cbCaikvETRUI8rnw","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaikvETRUI8rnw","pdf",799348,"English","# Key Coordination, Collaboration, and Structures Strategies Across the West\n## Course Sharing\n## Collaboration and Coordination\n## About the Landscape Analysis","[{\"question\":\"What themes emerged from WICHE’s landscape analysis of completion strategies in the West?\",\"answer\":\"States recognized opportunities for cross-institutional collaboration and for adapting structures to better support student success. They prioritized coordination and modified state-level decision-making and structures to address barriers to student progress.\"},{\"question\":\"How does course sharing support completion outcomes?\",\"answer\":\"Course sharing lets students take courses at other institutions to stay on track for graduation, while institutions can enroll students in courses that may be under-enrolled locally. It can also create cost savings by leveraging offerings elsewhere rather than duplicating low-enrollment courses.\"},{\"question\":\"Why do states need more efficient completion strategies, according to WICHE?\",\"answer\":\"WICHE notes projected declines in U.S. high school graduates after 2025. With fewer students, institutions face increasing competition, and states must prioritize effective completion strategies to mitigate population declines.\"}]","Completion Strategies in the West: Coordination, Collaboration and Structures | PDF",1792064494,25]