Second Meeting
Higher Education Study Committee
SC Commission on Higher Education Conference Room
September 20, 2007, 3:00 p.m.

Materials 

Agenda Item 3)   Discussion of Previous Reports and Studies

The following documents have been distributed or referenced:

• Governor’s Task Force Report, September 2006 - http://www.che.sc.gov/hetf/Files/Final_HETF06_fullreport_%20Sept2006.pdf
   

• State Code for Higher Education Mission and Goals (Section 59-103-15)
   

• Other presentations made to the Governor’s Task Force are available at http://www.che.sc.gov/HETF/HigherEdTaskForceHm.htm
   

• Presidents’ Accountability Workgroup Report, 2005
   

• Foundations for the Future:  Higher Education in South Carolina, December 2003, http://www.che.sc.gov/InfoCenter/FoundationForTheFuture.htm
   

• Higher Education Strategic Plan of 2002, http://www.che.sc.gov/AcademicAffairs/IE/Introduction/StrategicPlanText_2002.doc
   

• Building Human Capital in South Carolina:  Closing the US/SC Income Gap, Robert H. Becker, Strom Thurmond Institute, September 2007
   

• Report of the Strom Thurmond Institute entitled “The South Carolina – US Income Gap Analysis of Data” by Robert T. Carey and Robert H. Becker, October 2006
   

• State plans for Kentucky and Washington State that were referenced at the first meeting.  Kentucky - http://cpe.ky.gov/planning/ and Washington -http://www.hecb.wa.gov/research/masterplans/masterplansindex.asp
   

• Skeleton Framework on Higher Education Strategic Planning discussed at the first meeting of the Study Committee
   

• Action Planning for Higher Education in South Carolina: Ideas for a New Framework
   

Agenda Item 4)  Discussion of Organization of the Study Committee’s Work

• Attachment: Discussion piece, Higher Education Study Committee Advisory Groups