Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE)
Higher EducationKentucky, United States51-200 Employees
The Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE) is Kentucky’s higher education coordinating agency, based in Frankfort. Its core mission is to strengthen the state by raising the share of residents with postsecondary credentials to 60% by 2030, guiding policy and planning to improve public higher education. The organization develops and implements a strategic agenda focused on increasing student readiness and enrollment, reducing financial barriers to college, supporting persistence and completion, enhancing transfer pathways, and strengthening career outcomes and state research capacity. It also oversees the biennial budgeting process for postsecondary education, performance funding, tuition rate policies, and admissions and program policy, alongside licensing non-profit and for-profit colleges offering four-year degrees in Kentucky. The CPE operates within the higher education sector and serves as a statewide authority coordinating public institutions and related credentialing activity, with a staff size described in broad terms as a mid-sized agency. A recent development noted in its broader public context is ongoing activity around education policy and funding in Kentucky.