Issue Area: Higher Education
HIRING AND HIGHER ED
In new research, U.S.business leaders say higher ed's resistance to change is widening skills gap, putting economic future at risk
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2012
A new report from Public Agenda suggests that business leaders fear that skyrocketing tuition and a growing skills gap could have serious consequences for the nation's economic future.
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Issue Area(s): Higher Education, Workforce, Jobs & Economy
STUDENT VOICES ON THE HIGHER EDUCATION PATHWAY
Preliminary Insights & Stakeholder Engagement Considerations
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2012
With 44% of all U.S. undergraduates attending community colleges, efforts to improve student success at these institutions continue to capture the national policy spotlight.
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Issue Area(s): Higher Education
CAN I GET A LITTLE ADVICE HERE?
How an Overstretched High School Guidance System Is Undermining Students' College Aspirations
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2011
Can I Get A Little Advice Here?, the second of Public Agenda's studies on college completion, asks young Americans how much help they received from the high school guidance system.
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Issue Area(s): Higher Education
CUTTING EDGE SERIES NO 1
Engaging Adjunct and Full-Time Faculty in Student Success Innovation
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2011
This report lays out core principles and promising practices for engaging faculty in changing institutions and closing student achievement gaps.
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Issue Area(s): Higher Education
CUTTING EDGE SERIES NO 2
Scaling Community College Interventions
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2011
In “Scaling Community College Interventions,” we provide an overview of the most common barriers, principles to help take initiatives to scale, and a checklist of critical questions.
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Issue Area(s): Higher Education
CUTTING EDGE SERIES NO 3
Building Institutional Capacity For Data-Informed Decision Making
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2011
"Building Institutional Capacity for Data-Informed Decision Making" is the latest from the Cutting Edge series of reports produced for Achieving the Dream.
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Issue Area(s): Higher Education
ENGAGING ADJUNCT AND FULL-TIME FACULTY IN STUDENT SUCCESS INNOVATION
Media Type: SLIDESHOW / YEAR: 2011
This report lays out core principles and promising practices for engaging faculty in changing institutions and closing student achievement gaps.
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Issue Area(s): Higher Education
ONE DEGREE OF SEPARATION
How Young Americans Who Don't Finish College See Their Chances for Success
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2011
The third in a series of surveys of young people on college completion, and their attitudes toward higher education.
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Issue Area(s): Higher Education
STILL ON THE SIDELINES
A Public Agenda report for the Lumina Foundation
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2011
A new report from Public Agenda adds an important new voice to the conversation about higher education reform.
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Issue Area(s): Higher Education
WITH THEIR WHOLE LIVES AHEAD OF THEM
Myths & Realities About Why So Many Students Fail to Finish College
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2011
Most young adults who started college but didn't finish left because they needed to work more to make ends meet.
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Issue Area(s): Higher Education
ARE WE BEGINNING TO SEE THE LIGHT?
Five Key Trends in Public Opinion, on Science, Technology, Engineering & Math Education in Public Schools
Media Type: SLIDESHOW / YEAR: 2010
Americans are convinced that math and science skills are crucial for the future, according to "Are We Beginning To See The Light?", a Public Agenda survey.
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Issue Area(s): K-12 Education, Higher Education, Science & Society
CHANGING THE CONVERSATION ABOUT PRODUCTIVITY
Strategies for Engaging Faculty and Institutional Leaders
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2010
This report builds on and extends Public Agenda's ongoing research on the attitudes of various stakeholder groups toward higher education reform.
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Issue Area(s): Higher Education
SQUEEZE PLAY (2010)
Continued Public Anxiety on Cost, Harsher Judgements on How Colleges are Run
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2010
Are college and universities doing all they can to keep costs under control?
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Issue Area(s): Higher Education
CAMPUS COMMONS
What Faculty, Financial Officers and Others Think About Controlling College Costs
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2009
A report by Public Agenda points to the need for policymakers, public higher education leadership, and faculty to work together to find ways to keep public higher education costs under control.
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Issue Area(s): Higher Education
SQUEEZE PLAY (2009)
The Public's Views on College Costs Today
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2009
Public Agenda's latest Squeeze Play survey finds many people feeling uneasy about a key element of the American dream: a college education.
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Issue Area(s): Higher Education
SQUEEZE PLAY (2008)
How Parents and the Public Look at Higher Education Today
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2008
A record number of Americans now say a college education is necessary for success in the workplace and the vast majority say costs should not prevent qualified students from attending.
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Issue Area(s): Higher Education, Race
THE IRON TRIANGLE
College Presidents Talk about Costs, Access and Quality
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2008
“The Iron Triangle” examines the views of more than two dozen college and university presidents who shared their thoughts with us in lengthy, one-on-one interviews.
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Issue Area(s): Higher Education
PUBLIC ATTITUDES ON HIGHER EDUCATION
A Trend Analysis, 1993 to 2003
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2004
This analysis finds that parents of high school students are increasingly worried about access to college.
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Issue Area(s): Higher Education, Race
MEETING THE COMPETITION
College and University Presidents, Faculty & State Legislators View the New Competitive Academic Arena
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2002
In interviews and group discussions with higher education officials and state legislators, we found a growing number say market forces and increased competition are reshaping academia.
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Issue Area(s): Higher Education
REALITY CHECK 2001
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2001
This fourth annual progress report on the academic standards movement finds that teachers, parents, students, employers, and college professors broadly endorse local initiatives to raise standards.
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Issue Area(s): K-12 Education, Higher Education
GREAT EXPECTATIONS
How the Public and Parents - White, African-American and Hispanic - View Higher Education
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2000
This survey finds that a towering 87% of Americans believe that a college education has become as important as a high school diploma used to be.
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Issue Area(s): Higher Education, Race
DOING COMPARATIVELY WELL
Why the Public Loves Higher Education & Criticizes K-12
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 1999
The first report to compare the public's perception of higher and lower education by examining the findings of a number of research projects.
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Issue Area(s): K-12 Education, Higher Education
REALITY CHECK (1998)
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 1998
Public Agenda's Reality Check is a special feature of Education Week's annual report Quality Counts.
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Issue Area(s): K-12 Education, Higher Education
PRESERVING THE HIGHER EDUCATION LEGACY
A Conversation with California Leaders
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 1995
A follow-up to The Closing Gateway, this report is based on a series of in- depth interviews with 29 distinguished California leaders about California's higher education system.
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Issue Area(s): Higher Education
ENDURING VALUES, CHANGING CONCERNS
What Californians Expect from Their Higher Education Systems
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 1993
A reassessment of the views of Californians concerning their higher education system since 1993's The Closing Gateway.
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Issue Area(s): Higher Education
LIFE AFTER HIGH SCHOOL
Young People Talk About Their Hopes and Prospects
Media Type: PDF
This survey of young adults examines the decisions they make about work or college.
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Issue Area(s): K-12 Education, Higher Education, Workforce, Jobs & Economy
SHARING THE DREAM
How Faculty, Families & Community Leaders Respond to Community College Reform
Media Type: PDF
This Public Agenda report, offers insight into how the "Achieving the Dream" initiative's goals will be received by critical stakeholders in and around community colleges.
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Issue Area(s): Higher Education