ASHE CPPHE Pre Conference Sessions

Wednesday: 8am-6pm, Sugarland A (75 in theater or 48 in rounds)

Time / Session
8:00am-9:00am / Opening Session: Setting the National and Local Higher Education Policy Context
Chair: Tiffany
Discussant:Liliana Garces (UT Austin)
Panelist 1:Raymond Paredes (TX Higher Education Coordinating Board)
Panelist 2: Jon Fansmith (ACE)
9:15am-10:30am / Title: A look How the Sausage is Made: Understanding the Policy Making Process
Chair:Samaad Keys
Discussant: Denisa Gandara
Paper 1: A Bridge to Somewhere: A Rhetorical Analysis of Intermediary Organization Documents on College Completion Policy
Paper 2: Theoretical and Practical Implications of Implementing and Assessing Statewide Policy
Paper 3: Managing Conflict on Public Higher Education Boards
10:45am-12:00pm / Invited Session One: Counting What Matters: Higher Education Accountability and Equity
Conversation on state and federal accountability and equity. Equity implications of existing and emerging higher ed accountability policies including the 90/10 rule accreditation, gainful employment, outcomes based funding in the United States and Australia.
  • Tiffany Jones (Ed Trust) & Sosanya Jones (Southern Illinois University)
  • Andrew Harvey (La Trobe University, Australia)
  • James Dean Ward (USC)-Unintended Consequences of For-Profit College Regulation: Examining the 90/10 Rule (accepted paper)
  • Ben Miller (CAP)

1:30pm-2:30pm / Title: The Impact of Policy onCommunity College Enrollment and Outcomes
Chair:Megan Oster
Discussant: Sosanya Jones
Paper 1: The Effects of Financial Aid on the Enrollment Outcomes of the most Economically Disadvantaged Students at a Large Urban Community College District
Paper 2: The Impact of Outcomes-Based Funding on Associate's Degree Completions
2:30pm-2:45pm / Give CPPHE Award
3:00pm-4:15pm / Title: Resistance is not Fultle: Campus Carry
Patricia Somers, ; University of Texas - Austin (Presenter)
Richard J Reddick, ; The University of Texas at Austin (Discussant)
Phillip Cortez, ; Texas State Representative, Doctoral studnet in Educational Policy, U of Texas (Presenter)
Susan Lawrence, ; Students Against Campus Carry (Presenter)
Matt Valentine, ; University of Texas at Austin (Presenter)
4:30pm-5:45pm / Title: Changing the Numbers: NSF's strategy to STEM diversity (Session)
Daniela Marshall AAAS
Ann Gates The University of Texas at El Paso
Ivory Toldson Quality Education for Minorities (QEM)
Juan Gilbert University of Florida
Ashley Huderson AAAS
Beth Olivares University of Rochester
6:00pm-7:00pm / BUSINESS MEETING

Thursday: 8am-12pm, Salon A (402 in theater or 256 in rounds),

Memorial (135 in theater or 88 in rounds)

Time / Session
8:00am-9:15am
(Salon A) / Title: Higher Ed Funding and Outcomes: Lessons from the States
Chair:Jennifer Delaney
Discussant:Wil Del Pilar (Ed Trust)
Paper 1: Degrees of Opportunity: Policy and Performance of Postsecondary Education in Georgia
Paper 2: Low Hanging Fruit: Status Attainment for Emerging Research Universities in Texas from 2009 - 2014
Paper 3: Adoption versus Implementation of Outcomes Based Funding In Three States
8:00am-9:15am
(Memorial) / Title: The Rise Partisanship in Higher Education Policymaking
Christopher Marsicano Vanderbilt University Peabody College of Education and Human Development
Anna Drake University of Texas at Austin
Dominique Baker Southern Methodist University
9:30am-10:45am
(Salon A) / Invited Session Two: Developing Policy Relevant Research Agendas: Data Availability and Opportunities for the Future (Joint w/ GPSS)
  • Jamey Rorison (IHEP)
  • Manuela Ekowo (New America)
  • Andrew Nichols (Ed Trust)

9:30am-10:45am
(Memorial) / Title: Regional Evidence-Based Consortia as a Strategy to Increase College Completion: Implications for Higher Education Policy
Teri Longacre, ; University of Houston (Presenter)
Paula Myrick Short, ; University of Houston (Presenter)
Tom Sugar, ; Complete College America (Presenter)
Kimberly Beatty, ; Houston Community College (Presenter)
Jason Smith, ; University of Houston (Presenter)
Catherine Horn, ; University of Houston (Presenter)
11:00am-12:15pm
(Salon A) / Title: Getting Real about Race and Higher EducationPolicy (Joint w/ CEP)
Chair: Lorelle Espinosa
Discussant: Andre Perry
Paper 1: Stories Untold: Counter-Narratives to Anti-Blackness and Deficit-Oriented Discourse Concerning HBCUs
Paper 2: The Decentralization of Race: Tracing California’s Student Equity Policy
Paper 3:Towards a critical conceptual analysis of race-based educational equity policies: Analyzing the impact of affirmative action on higher education admissions
11:00am-12:15pm
(Memorial) / Title: How much a dollar cost? A conversation on student financial aid and debt
Chair: Kevin McClure
Discussant: Mark Wiederspan
Paper 1: When Average is Not Enough: Examining the Variation in the Influences on Undergraduate Debt
Paper 2: Graduate Student Debt: 2000-2012 Trends and Implications
Paper 3: Study Abroad as an Unintended Consequence of State Merit Aid Programs