Complete to Compete
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Initiative Description
Complete to Compete is an initiative launched by West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin III in his role as chair of the National Governors Association. The initiative focuses on increasing the number of students in the United States who complete college degrees and certificates and improving the productivity of the country’s higher education institutions. While a number of states are already taking steps to boost college completion, Complete to Compete emphasizes the critical role that increased gubernatorial leadership and participation play in achieving meaningful progress.
The initiative aims to:
- Raise national awareness about the need to increase college completion.
- Create a set of common higher education completion and productivity measures that governors can use to monitor state progress.
- Develop a series of best practices and a list of policy actions governors can take to achieve increased college completion;
- Provide support to states to design policies and programs that increase college completion and improve higher education productivity and serve as models for other states around the country; and
- Hold a learning institute for governors’ senior advisors in education, workforce and economic development focusing on successful state strategies to graduate more students and meet workforce demands.
Initiative Publications
Complete to Compete: Common College Completion Metrics (2010). This guide seeks to equip states with a set of common college completion metrics that can be used to monitor system performance and inform future policy decisions. Future publications will examine policies that states can use to improve college completion and efficiency in higher education.
For more information about the initiative, please contact:
National Governors Association