Comprehensive program evaluation 2003-2008

Abstract

In the summer of 2008, the South Carolina Commission on Higher Education, on behalf of the CoEE Review Board, engaged the Washington Advisory Group to prepare a review of the Centers of Economic Excellence Program for the period 2003‐2008 with respect to enabling legislation originally passed in 2002 and amended by the South Carolina General Assembly in 2008. The objective was to assess the effectiveness of the program in meeting its statutory goals, not to evaluate the work carried out within the Centers. As part of this process, WAG consultants interviewed over 150 CoEE participants and stakeholders at universities and in the public and private sectors during August through October 2008. This report provides the results of the evaluation.