The Education Commission of the States (ECS) is an interstate compact created in 1965 to improve public education by facilitating the exchange of information, ideas and experiences among state policymakers and education leaders. As a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization involving key leaders from all levels of the education system, ECS creates unique opportunities to build partnerships, share information and promote the development of policy based on available research and strategies.
The reports are hosted by Florida State University with the permission of the Education Commission of the States.
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State Postsecondary Education Structures Handbook: 1994
Aims McGuiness, Rhonda Martin Epper, and Shelia Arredondo
This new edition provides a basic reference document for those interested in the historical background, current status, and emerging patterns of state higher education structures. The document begins with an introductory essay and overview of the changing structure of state higher education leadership. This includes an explanation of the functions of coordination and governance, a description of the evolution and current status of state structures, an overview of trends and issues, and guidelines for evaluation and reorganization. Tables then display, state-by-state, the legal status, responsibilities, membership, and staffing of state coordinating and governing boards and agencies. Narrative profiles of each state's higher education structure are also provided. The document concludes with addresses and telephone numbers of higher education executive officers in each state. Information was obtained primarily from state higher education executives and their staffs in each state.
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State Postsecondary Education Structures Handbook: 1988
Aims McGuiness
Summary data and narrative profiles are provided on state postsecondary education structures (governing boards, coordinating boards and agencies). Following an overview of the status of state coordination and governance of higher education in 1987, tabular data on state boards and agencies are provided, including: (1) structure of statewide/coordination/governing boards; (2) agency responsibility; (3) state basic legal structures; (4) membership--central state coordinating and/or governing boards and public institutional and multicampus governing boards; (5) student and faculty membership--central state coordinating and/or governing boards and public institutional and multicampus governing boards; and (6) state-level agencies and committees. Part 2 consists of a narrative profile of the state postsecondary education structures in each state. Each narrative profile includes information on the coordinating and/or governing agency, institutional governing boards, master planning, state student assistance and loan agencies, the state board of vocational education, the state-level organization of private colleges and universities, licensure/approval agencies, and statutory and other committees. A listing of addresses and phone numbers of state higher education executive officers is appended.
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State Postsecondary Education Structures Handbook: 1986
Aims McGuiness
This document consolidates under one cover material previously published by ECS in three separate items: Survey of Structure of State Coordinating or Governing Boards and Institutional and Multicampus Governor Boards or Postsecondary Education, last published in 1983; the narrative profiles of each state's structure from the State Postsecondary Education Profiles Handbook, last published in 1983; and the commentary on the status of higher education structure from State Governance of Education: 1983.
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Higher Education in the States
Nancy M. Berve
In 1971, ECS did a survey of the basic legal structures and responsibilities of state coordinating or governing agencies and public institutional governing boards. In response to requests from the states and from individuals, the survey was updated and expanded in November - December 1974, in spring 1979 and again in late fall 1982, and includes all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The areas covered in the survery, with page references, are summarized in this issue. This updated survey is intended to be used as a companion to the State Postsecondary Profiles Handbook (published by ECS, 1982-83 Edition).
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State Governance of Education: 1983
Donald W. Burns, Robert M. Palaich, Aims McGuiness, and Patrcia Flakus-Mosqueda
The authors report on major trends and emerging issues in state education policy-making. Two parts cover, first, the history, status, and future of educational governance and, second, the alternatives open to state leaders in structuring and using education commissions. In accounting for trends in educational governance, the authors consider such influences as teacher recruitment, the impact of technology, the needs of special students, and changing administrative practices. The governing structures of elementary/secondary education are classified in four models, emphasizing the differing roles of governors, legislatures, state school officers, and boards and departments of education. The present structures and issues in state governance of higher education are also identified. The second section reports the findings of two studies conducted by the Educational Governance Center. In the first study, interviews with participants in seven states from nine educational commissions provided information on the selection of commission members, their specific duties, the logistics of their meetings, the political climates, the specifying of goals, and comparative commission structures. Another study on the influences on legislative voting analyzed votes on school finance reform to discover legislators' priorities in votes on educational funding.
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State Postsecondary Education Structures Handbook: 1981
Aims McGuiness, National Center for Higher Education Management Systems, and State Higher Education Executive Officers Association
The sixth edition of the State Postsecondary Education Profiles Handbook presents information about postsecondary education in the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
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State Postsecondary Education Profiles Handbook: 1976
Richard M. Millard, National Center for Higher Education Management Systems, and State Higher Education Executive Officers Association
This profiles handbook presents in narrative form a statement about the statewide postsecondary agencies that administer statewide programs, coordinate and plan for postsecondary education.
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Educational Structures of the 50 States
Governor's Commission on the Structure and Governance of Education in Maryland
This paper is part of a substantial amount of research work which was defined and solicited by the Governors Commission on the Structure and Governance of Education in Maryland (the Rosenberg Commission) from many scholarly people working throughout the Maryland system of education.
This publication briefly outlines the educational structures in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The Organizational chart form restricted the amount of information that could be used. Also, because changes in educational structure are constantly being made, some information may be obsolete.
