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1. The Florida Independent College Fund

   2014-2015 Fostering Success Strategy-Services-Support Executive Summary 2013-2014 Review Emerging SUS Trends Fostering Success New Campaign Elements Existing Services & Support Framework
2. Executive Summary The 2014-2015 budget will continue to spend down the oversized reserve accumulated from previous grants and dues. Dues will remain at $2,500 per member; down from $8,000 when we consolidated. New collaborative grant proposals will continue to include reimbursable services that produce revenues for the Fund. The Fund will continue to useICUF staff and ICUF office resources instead of maintaining a separate staff and office (which has enabled a 70% reduction of member dues in the past 6 years). This past year was a transitional year for the FICF to an updated strategy that will increase grant development, deployment and dissemination services to all members; while continuing its collaborative grant services and administrative support that has produced more than $30 million during the past decade. To respond to emerging Tallahassee trends, to pursue the opportunities those trends afford and to avoid the government mandated performance measurements and management, the Fund will launch Fostering Success, a campaign to highlight and expand the current successful accessibility, affordability, attachment and accountability efforts of its members. It will have four components. Fostering Accessibility will assemble existing data into a website-based service … GPS School2College Routing (which will be broadly promoted to school districts, principals, school counselors, parents and students) to help students find and choose an independent college or university. It will highlight current success, assisting all new students. Acollaborative proposal will seek federal, state, foundation or corporate funds to boost GPS aid to veterans, foster children and recently disfranchised Bright Futures. Fostering Affordability will highlight current success assisting allstudents to afford and complete their bachelor’s degree. Three collaborative proposals will be submitted to federal, state, foundation or corporate donors to help veterans, foster children and recently disfranchised Bright Futures students afford and attain bachelor’s degrees at ICUF institutions. The Fund will also provide grant development, deployment and dissemination assistance to any member institution, submitting their own Fostering Affordability grant proposal. Fostering Attachment will highlight current college and university success assisting all students to earn bachelor’s degrees that lead to fulfilling careers. Five collaborative proposals will be submitted to federal, state, foundation and corporate donors to boost targeted degree programs: STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math); Education; Health; Business; Non-Profit & Public Service; Advanced Degree Preparation; and Entrepreneurial, Emerging and Expanding Business Clusters. The Fund will also provide grant development, deployment and dissemination assistance to any member institution that is submitting their own Fostering Attachment grant proposal. Fostering Accountabilitywill create a new accountability measurement design that highlights the success of Fostering Success, instead of the patchwork that is evolving for ICUF, the SUS and FCS. It will shift ICUF accountability reporting to enrollment growth, degree award growth and Florida employment growth for all bachelor’s degree students, as well as for targeted students and targeted degree students. A funding proposal will seek support of this proposal.
3. 2013-2014 Review This past year, the Fund secured an additional $500,000 from the Florida Department of Education for the University of Tampa’s ScienceMathMaster. This proposal was a prototype for future FLDOE proposals to provide regional and statewide teacher professional development that can be proposed as collaborative or individual applications. Unfortunate staff changes at the Department stalled decisions on a collaborative continuation of ScienceMathMaster that included Palm Beach Atlantic, Nova Southeastern, Keiser, UT and other member institutions. Likewise, a collaborative proposal to NOAA - ClimateWatch and to the Legislature - Teacher Open Online Curriculum (TOOC) remain under discussion and will be awarded or resubmitted next year. Efforts succeeded in limiting regulations and damage from the Legislature’s 2013 Distance Learning Bill. That bill resulted in a research institute at the University of Florida and degree programs only for students who could otherwise meet UF’s on-campus enrollment requirements. A bachelor’s degree completer program, Complete Florida at the University of West Florida that independent institutions could join was also launched. Four did: Hodges, St. Thomas, Barry and PBAU. The Florida Virtual Campus, originally managed by the University of Florida to promote SUS and FCS online programs is currently being transferred to the University of West Florida by the Legislature. The Fund also helped narrow the regulatory focus of the SUS Access & Attainment Commission. The Florida Council of 100 and Florida Chamber of Commerce have fueled efforts to support targeted bachelor’s and advanced degrees that are a priority for their members. Most likely, as those degrees are advanced, other academic programs at the SUS, FCS and ICUF will be neglected. That commission decided to target only 21 high-demand/low-supply bachelor’s degrees in computer sciences/technology, accounting and middle school education instead of all undergraduate and graduate degrees offered in Florida. ICUF institutions were also made eligible as collaborative applicants to the commission’s $15 million grant program. Four independent institutions (Edward Waters College, Ringling College of Art & Design, Southeastern University and Bethune-Cookman University) did partner with SUS institutions but those applicants were not awarded. The Fund distributed to each FICF member institutions a UPS Scholarship that was modestly larger than the member’s FICF dues of $2,500. The Fund secured a $5,000 grant from the Foundation for Independent Higher Education (FIHE) to rethink and redesign the Fund’s fundraising strategy. This grant helped focus the Fund on emerging trends, strategies, services and support for 2014-2015.The Fund completed the Boost Project which explored and developed strategies to serve all member institutions.
4. Emerging SUS Trends In the past, Florida had two bachelor’s degree goals for its state universities: provide access to bachelor’s degrees and be affordable for students and the State. In the past two years, two new goals have been adopted: align degrees to attach graduates to selected high-paying jobs; and adopt performance measurements that hold institutions accountable for rapid degree completion, especially into those high-paying jobs. These changes have triggered four emerging trends at the state universities: 1) accessibility, the resulting enrollment growth and increased degree production are lessening in importance*; 2) lower student and state costs are most important; 3) selected high-paying degree programs are becoming much more important; and 4) performance measurement will police the first three goals. These trends are opportunities for independent higher education. They could also impact independent higher education negatively, unless ICUF has a better, alternative strategy of its own. *Fall to fall 2013 SUS enrollment only grew .6%
5. Fostering Success Fostering Success is that strategy that will avoid those state universities’ trends, will raise funds from the opportunities that those SUS trends present and will deter growing federal and state regulations. Fostering Success will have four elements: Fostering Accessibility; Fostering Affordability; Fostering Attachment and Fostering Accountability. Each element will highlight independent higher education’s current success fostering student success, will boost those efforts and will seek additional funding for this campaign, targeted students and targeted degree programs. 1 – Fostering Accessibility GPS School2College Routing 2 – Fostering Affordability College2Degrees Coaching 4 – Fostering Accountability Fostering Success Succeeding 3 – Fostering Attachment Degrees2Careers Directing
6. New Campaign Elements The Fund will launch four strategies to increase bachelor’s degree access, bachelor’s degree awards and graduate employment in Florida. There will be a special fundraising focus on targeted students and targeted degrees. There will also be a new accountability model, based on inputs, outputs and outcomes of Fostering Success. These strategies will support all members’ bachelor’s degree programs and raise new funding while fending off government regulations already directed at state universities. Fostering Accessibility: GPS School2College Routing Will assemble existing data into a website-based service … GPS School2College Routing (which will be broadly promoted to school districts, principals, school counselors, parents and students) to help students find and choose an independent college or university. It will highlight current success, assisting all new students. Acollaborative proposal will seek federal, state, foundation or corporate funds to boost GPS aid to veterans, foster children and recently disfranchised Bright Futures students. Fostering Affordability: College2Degrees Will highlight current success assisting allstudents to afford and complete their bachelor’s degree. Three collaborative proposals will be submitted to federal, state, foundation or corporate donors to help veterans, foster children and recently disfranchised Bright Futures students afford and attain bachelor’s degrees at ICUF institutions. The Fund will also provide grant development, deployment and dissemination assistance to any member institution submitting their own Fostering Affordability grant proposal. Fostering Attachment: Degrees2Careers Will highlight current college and university success assisting all students to earn bachelor’s degrees that lead to fulfilling careers. Five collaborative proposals will be submitted to federal, state, foundation and corporate donors to bolster targeted degree programs: STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math); Education; Health; Business; Non-Profit & Public Service; Advanced Degree Preparation; and Entrepreneurial, Emerging and Expanding Business Clusters. The Fund will also provide grant development, deployment and dissemination assistance to any member institution that is submitting their own Fostering Attachment grant proposal. Fostering Accountability: School2College2Degrees2Careers Will create a new accountability measurement design that highlights the success of Fostering Success, instead of the patchwork that is evolving for ICUF, the SUS and FCS. It will shift ICUF accountability reporting to enrollment growth, degree award growth and Florida employment growth for all bachelor’s degree students, as well as for targeted students and targeted degree students. A funding proposal will seek support of this proposal.
7. Expanded Services & Support Framework The FICF maintains ICUF’s 501(c)(3) foundation to receive grants and donations, as well as to perform educational services and offer support that complements the ICUF’s lobbying work in Tallahassee and Washington. Past advocacy and acquisition work of the Fund has enabled independent higher education to win more than $30 million in federal, state, foundation and corporate awards for members. Annually, administrative work of the Fund includes awarding endowed UPS scholarships to member institutions; managing the relationship with the national Foundation for Independent Higher Education (FIHE); organizing the annual board meeting; and providing support for the implementation of collaborative grants. Fostering Success will expand these existing services and support framework in 2014-2015 to provide additional benefits to every member institution in 2014-2015. TYPE ONE– ALERT MEMBERS OF POTENTIAL GRANT OPPORTUNITIES – Alerts will be sent twice a month and posted on the website to ensure that member institutions have sufficient time to prepare their proposal for time sensitive opportunities. Fostering Success opportunities will be highlight and annotated. TYPE TWO – CONSULT WITH MEMBERS ON PROJECT AND APPLICATION OPPORTUNITIES – Upon request, the Fund will review any member institution’s sponsored research or grant acquisition strategies, priorities, targets and operational design, providing a critique, ideas or referrals that could be helpful in the member’s advocacy and acquisition efforts. The Fund will remain available to help with recruiting support, agents or approvals to advance those efforts that fit into the Fostering Success Campaign. TYPE THREE – WORK WITH MEMBERS TO SUBMIT COLLABORATIVE PROPOSAL – The Fund will submit 8 collaborative proposals to federal, state, foundation or corporate funders to support Fostering Success. TYPE FOUR – SUPPORT FOR FOSTERING SUCCESS CAMPAIGN – The Fund will develop 2 funding proposals to support to the GPS School2College Routing and the School2College2Degrees2Careers Accountability System.