Getting to Graduation: The Completion Agenda in Higher Education by Andrew P. Ke

Description: Getting to Graduation by Andrew P. Kelly, Mark Schneider The authors emphasize the need to rethink policies governing financial aid, remediation, and institutional funding to promote degree completion. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The United States, long considered to have the best higher education in the world, now ranks eleventh in the proportion of 25- to 34-year-olds with a college degree. As other countries have made dramatic gains in degree attainment, the U.S. has improved more slowly. In response, President Obama recently laid out a national "completion agenda" with the goal of making the U.S. the best-educated nation in the world by the year 2020. "Getting to Graduation" explores the reforms that we must pursue to recover a position of international leadership in higher education as well as the obstacles to those reforms. This new completion agenda puts increased pressure on institutions to promote student success and improve institutional productivity in a time of declining public revenue. In this volume, scholars of higher education and public policymakers describe promising directions for reform. They argue that it is essential to redefine postsecondary education and to consider a broader range of learning opportunities - beyond the research university and traditional bachelor degree programs-to include community colleges, occupational certificate programs, and apprenticeships.The authors also emphasize the need to rethink policies governing financial aid, remediation, and institutional funding to promote degree completion. Notes What will it take to achieve President Obamas higher education completion agenda? Author Biography Andrew P. Kelly is a research fellow in education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy. Mark Schneider is vice president of the American Institutes for Research and a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy. Table of Contents PrefaceIntroductionPart I: The ChallengesChapter 1. Increasing Higher Education Attainment in the United States: Challenges and OpportunitiesChapter 2. Graduation Rates at Americas Universities: What We Know and What We Need to KnowPart II: The Performance and Potential of Sub-Baccalaureate ProgramsChapter 3. Can Community Colleges Achieve Ambitious Graduation Goals?Chapter 4. Certificate Pathways to Postsecondary Success and Good JobsChapter 5. Apprenticeships as an Alternative Route to Skills and CredentialsPart III: The Relationship between Policy and CompletionChapter 6. Financial Aid: A Blunt Instrument for Increasing Degree AttainmentChapter 7. Remediation: The Challenges of Helping Underprepared StudentsChapter 8. Equalizing Credits and Rewarding Skills: Credit Portability and Bachelors Degree AttainmentPart IV: The Lessons from Three StatesChapter 9. The Challenge of Scaling Successful Policy Innovations: A Case Study of Three Colorado Community College System GrantsChapter 10. Efforts to Improve Productivity: The Impact of Higher Education Reform in TexasChapter 11. The Ohio Experience with Outcomes-Based FundingConclusionList of Contributors Index Review Getting to Graduation is a must for educational studies collections or public policy discussion, enthusiastically recommended. Midwest Book Review A volume replete with nuanced perspectives on the opportunities and challenges higher education faces in the U.S... The book does an excellent job of covering a number of critical issues that bear on policies at the institutional, state, and federal levels. -- Joseph Kitchen Teachers College Record The book provides a useful synthesis of policy, practice and perhaps, most importantly, standards for rigorous research to assess the viability and prospective mechanisms for achieving ambitious policy goals. -- Jennifer Nicole Nailos & Victor M.H. Borden Review of Higher Education Promotional A solid body of work on an important topic that is not getting the kind of analytical attention it deserves. -- Jane Wellman, Delta Project on Postsecondary Costs, Productivity, and Accountability Long Description The United States, long considered to have the best higher education in the world, now ranks eleventh in the proportion of 25- to 34-year-olds with a college degree. As other countries have made dramatic gains in degree attainment, the U.S. has improved more slowly. In response, President Obama recently laid out a national completion agenda with the goal of making the U.S. the best-educated nation in the world by the year 2020. Getting to Graduation explores the reforms that we must pursue to recover a position of international leadership in higher education as well as the obstacles to those reforms.This new completion agenda puts increased pressure on institutions to promote student success and improve institutional productivity in a time of declining public revenue. In this volume, scholars of higher education and public policymakers describe promising directions for reform. They argue that it is essential to redefine postsecondary education and to consider a broader range of learning opportunitiesbeyond the research university and traditional bachelor degree programsto include community colleges, occupational certificate programs, and apprenticeships. The authors also emphasize the need to rethink policies governing financial aid, remediation, and institutional funding to promote degree completion. Review Text ""The book provides a useful synthesis of policy, practice and perhaps, most importantly, standards for rigorous research to assess the viability and prospective mechanisms for achieving ambitious policy goals."" Review Quote The book provides a useful synthesis of policy, practice and perhaps, most importantly, standards for rigorous research to assess the viability and prospective mechanisms for achieving ambitious policy goals. Promotional "Headline" What will it take to achieve President Obamas higher education completion agenda? Details ISBN1421406225 Audience Age 17 Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press Year 2012 ISBN-10 1421406225 ISBN-13 9781421406220 Format Hardcover Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press Subtitle The Completion Agenda in Higher Education Place of Publication Baltimore, MD Country of Publication United States Edited by Mark Schneider DEWEY 378.73 Pages 344 Short Title GETTING TO GRADUATION Language English Media Book Author Mark Schneider Illustrations 8 Line drawings, black and white Publication Date 2012-10-27 NZ Release Date 2012-10-27 US Release Date 2012-10-27 UK Release Date 2012-10-27 Alternative 9781421406930 Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2012-09-14 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161819697;

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