Reports

2010 Higher Education Showcase

Northeast Ohio is a great place to work, play, live, learn, and thrive. And why is that? The region is home to cultural gems, innovative companies, and a wealth of higher education opportunities. NOCHE , the Northeast Ohio Council on Higher Education, has been promoting the region’s higher education institutions for more than 50 years. This resource guide provides us with the chance to highlight Northeast Ohio’s higher education community—and we hope it will be useful to prospective college students, parents, and educators. In addition, we’ve designed this guide to offer existing and potential businesses in Northeast Ohio a snapshot of the breadth of talent available in this region.

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Maximize Your ROI: Return on Intern Handbook

Having enough internships and helping students to complete them is not enough. The internships must be high quality and provide students with an experience that is positive. This handbook is an effort to help Northeast Ohio employers develop internship programs that will successfully fill their talent pipeline and drive retention of students in the region.  It is a handbook, one that can be pulled out time and again to help you as you continually improve your internship program. An internship program is not something you create once and assume it will work into perpetuity. An internship requires – like any program that involves people – constant adjustment and development. Your program can always be better, and we hope you continue to work on it, using this handbook and corresponding workbook as a guide.

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2009 Internship Market Research Study

An internship study conducted by NOCHE reveals misperceptions and barriers that prevent some students from pursuing or completing an internship. The study, which was released in May 2009, highlights some of the strategies and opportunities that Northeast Ohio can embrace as it attempts to attract and retain a talented workforce in a competitive global market.

Funded by the Fenn Educational Fund of the Cleveland Foundation, the study sought to examine student populations, identify underserved and underrepresented segments, frame common barriers and misperceptions affecting internship participation, and develop key strategic options and hypotheses for initiatives that could improve student awareness of and participation in the internship process.

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2010 ERC/NOCHE Internship Pay Rates and Practices Survey

ERC and Northeast Ohio Council on Higher Education (NOCHE) collaborated to gather information from Northeast Ohio employers about their internship employment practices. Local organizations were invited to complete the survey between March 30 and April 30, 2010. The survey, published in May of 2010, reports data from 118 organizations regarding their internship practices and pay rates. Internship practices data is reported by organizational size and industry. Internship pay rate data is reported for eight positions and broken out by non-manufacturing and manufacturing industries.

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2004 NOCHE Fact Book
 

Higher education is one of Northeast Ohio's largest employers, and NOCHE member colleges and universities are major contributors to the region's economy. They improve the quality of life in and beyond their communities, as well as educate the region's work force to meet the challenges of a changing economy.

The NOCHE Fact Book defines with great detail the benefits which accrue to the region because of the presence of this strong, stable industry, and highlights its contributions across a series of categories. It also quantifies the numbers of degrees granted annually, across various disciplines and levels, on which the regional economy depends. NOCHE provides this resource for use by business, industry, entrepreneurs, public policy makers, news media, prospective students and those committed to economic development in Northeast Ohio.

Click here to download the NOCHE Fact Book.

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Measuring Up 2006
 

Measuring Up 2006, prepared by the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, consists of the national report card for higher education and fifty state report cards. Its purpose is to provide the public and policy makers with information to assess and improve post-secondary education in each state. Measuring Up 2006 is the fourth in a series of biennial report cards.

This report provides state leaders, policy makers, researchers and others with access to the national report card as well as access to all fifty state report cards. In addition, the site can compare any state with the best performing states in each performance category, compare indicator scores and state grades for any performance category, obtain source and technical information for indicators and weights, and allow visitors to download the reports.

Click here to download Ohio's Measuring Up 2006 Report Card.