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Commission on Higher Education describes coordinating role, oversight fixes and data plans
Summary
At a Higher Education Subcommittee meeting, Jeff Perez, president and executive director of the South Carolina Commission on Higher Education (CHE), outlined CHE’s coordinating functions, steps taken after recent oversight findings, and plans to strengthen data and program review.
At a meeting of the Higher Education Subcommittee, Jeff Perez, president and executive director of the South Carolina Commission on Higher Education, told members CHE’s role is to “promote access, affordability, and quality” across the state’s higher education institutions while serving primarily as a coordinating body.
Perez said CHE distributes state scholarship and need‑based grant funds, reviews and approves new academic programs, licenses certain vocational and proprietary schools, serves as the state approving agency for veterans’ benefits, and collects statewide higher education data. “We are in the grand scheme of things considered a coordinating body,” Perez said.
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