The Midwestern Higher Education Compact (MHEC) brings together leaders from Midwestern states to develop cost-savings opportunities, generate collaborative solutions to challenges and opportunities in higher education, and promote postsecondary alignment with workforce needs.
MHEC’s contracts, programs, initiatives, and research save institutions and states millions of dollars annually, address issues that require interstate cooperation, and advance student success, postsecondary access and affordability, and workforce readiness. Learn more in this brief video.
MHEC’s cooperative contracts save its member states millions of dollars each year.
MHEC’s applied research advances student success, workforce readiness, and college accessibility and affordability.
MHEC’s programs respond to challenges that require interstate cooperation.
MHEC convenes regional leaders to address emerging topics in postsecondary education.
MHEC works with higher education system leaders, state policymakers, legislators,
and institutional leaders to strengthen postsecondary education.
MHEC is comprised of 11 member states from the Midwestern region of the U.S.
Colleges and universities benefit in many ways from MHEC's contracts, research, programs, and initiatives.
Through MHEC’s student reciprocity agreements, students and families in the Midwest save millions of dollars annually.
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More details to follow. Contact Katie Chock with any questions.
MHEC brings together teams from 10 Midwestern states to dig into noncredit-to-credit pathways, policies, and practices.
Information on a renewed grant to advance Open Education resources and practices, research on college attainment differences between males and females in the region, and how MHEC is supporting states as Workforce Pell takes shape.
The grant will allow MHEC to continue and expand its work supporting open educational resources (OER) and open educational practices (OEP) across the Midwest.
