Resources and insights to support professionals working across the education sector
Building Sustainable Institutions Through Collaboration: Lessons from New Mexico’s Collaborative for Higher Education Shared Services (CHESS)
HCM’s latest case study, Building Sustainable Institutions Through Collaboration, examines how New Mexico’s community colleges came together to create CHESS, a first-of-its-kind shared-services model that modernizes operations while preserving institutional independence.
A 2025 Update of State Investments in Short-term Credential Pathways
Our State Policy & Research Director, Stephanie Murphy, provides a 2025 update, our most comprehensive update to date, to HCM’s typology and policy landscape analysis of state investments in short-term credential pathways (originally published in 2023 and updated previously in 2024). Her latest analysis shows that overall state investments now cumulatively total at least $8.1 billion.
The Latest Developments in State Investments in Short-term Credentials: A 2024 Update
HCM’s State Policy & Research Director, Stephanie Murphy, delves into the latest update to HCM Strategists’ 2023 typology and policy landscape analysis of recent state investments in short-term credential initiatives across the United States. States continue to embrace skills-based education as a key component of workforce development, with growing bipartisan support. As of November 2024, states have invested more than $5.6 billion in short-term credential pathways.
