Building a Future is helping Kansas families by focusing on three key areas.
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Affordability |
Access |
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The Kansas Board of Regents is implementing a number of promising practices to advance these strategic objectives.
Key Initiatives
- Advocate for increased need-based student financial aid
- Limit tuition and fee increases
- Require student success playbooks with recommendations including:
- Centralized professional advising
- Targeted student financial aid
- Improved interventions for at-risk students based on enhanced data collections
- Better technology supports
- Adopt systemwide general education core
- Increase systemwide transfer
- Implemented systemwide transfer associate degrees in a number of key areas including education, healthcare, computer science, business and social work
- Continued work on systemwide transfer courses to open the door for more opportunities in fields such as engineering
Results
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Increased Affordability |
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State funded student financial aid nearly quadrupled |
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Tuition and fee increases are less than half of CPI growth over the last five years | |
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Student loan debt of graduates who are Pell recipients has decreased 16 percent |
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Enhanced Access |
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The system is providing college courses to 15.5 percent more high school students than five years ago |
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The number of Pell-eligible students in the system grew 4.9 percent last year |
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Improved Student |
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On-time graduation rates have increased 7.3 percentage points systemwide during the last five years |
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Retention rates have increased 3.1 percentage points |
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Starting wages for graduates from Kansas colleges and universities are up 16 percent since 2020 |