Regional Outreach Decision-Making Framework

Educational Attainment

Families

Communities

InstitutionsIntention:Improve the educational attainment

Attention:•The number & location of participants•The short-term impacts that occurred•The increase potential for long-term impacts and those impacts

Considerations:•Fostering educational opportunities to improve quality of life•Most direct impact on educational attainment•Balance across all areas of education•Linkage of other strategic goals to educational attainment

Criteria:•Link community and university•Innovation•Evidence of need•Alignment w/ mission•Initiative funding•Evidence of matching funds•3 years maximum•Impact across the region•Proof of capacity to sustain effort•Not replacing lost tax-based funding

Attention – Key Questions

– How many children and youth were engaged? In the case of a secondary target population, how many were engaged and what was the intended and actual link to children and youth?• What was the participation by ages and counties?• Is support being provided to all citizens regardless of educational

attainment goals?– What are the short-term and long-term impacts of the supported programs

and services?• What changes occurred for the children and youth targeted, directly and

indirectly, with the programs or services? What evidence is found that an aspect of educational attainment improved? (Readiness, capacity, support, attainment, application, progression, etc.) And, what is the quality of the improvement?

• What changes occurred in a system, a community, and families targeted with the programs and services? And, in what ways did these changes impact educational attainment for children and youth?

• In what ways do the changes impact the future of the region, (job creation/entrepreneurial spirit, collaborative partnerships, and overall quality of life)

Guidelines• Decisions are guided by a commitment to Strategic Goal Number 1 to improve

educational attainment for children and youth across the region.• Decisions to support activity in the other three Strategic Goals will be guided by

evidence of the most direct impact on Strategic Goal Number 1.• Primary target population is “children & youth”.• Secondary target populations are systems, communities, and families and are

considered as impacts on them related to impacts on “children & youth”.• Council members may not submit funding proposals.• Council members associated with funding proposals may advocate and support

but must remove themselves from decision-making.• Others?