Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 20, 2022

based Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP), one of the nation’s premiere education research and policy centers, Dr. Michelle Asha Cooper has a vision. Since taking the helm of IHEP in 2008, Cooper’s been out front influencing national education policy. As president of the Washington, D.C.-based

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The episode focuses less on the possible sale of Phoenix -- about which details remain sketchy -- than on the overall state of for-profit institutions, the changing definition of “for-profit” in higher education, and how to regulate the increasingly blurry landscape of postsecondary education and training.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2023

million undergraduates, typically deliver the minimum economic return to students, according to a recent report from the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP). At least 2,414 institutions, enrolling 18.3 Improving college affordability can have a marked impact on the value students receive.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The episode focuses less on the possible sale of Phoenix—about which details remain sketchy—than on the overall state of for-profit institutions, the changing definition of “for-profit” in higher education and how to regulate the increasingly blurry landscape of postsecondary education and training.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 24, 2023

Almost 90% of students whose family income places them in the top quintile of earnings decide to enroll in either a two or four-year college, while just over 50% of high school graduates coming from the lowest quintile of earnings go on to enroll in postsecondary education. We have this prevailing meritocracy aura in higher education.

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Insight Into Diversity

JULY 1, 2024

A recent report by the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) highlights the significant impact of these policies on furthering disparities in college access, particularly for Black, Hispanic, and low-income students. Supreme Court’s decision to eliminate race-conscious admissions practices.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

.” “The highest-paying jobs in rural areas are in white-collar, blue-collar, and protective services occupations, and blue-collar and protective services occupations are more likely to employ men,” Martin Van Der Werf, report co-author and CEW’s director of editorial and education policy, said in the press release.

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IHEP

DECEMBER 20, 2023

By: Mamie Voight As the year draws to a close, we at the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) are taking a moment to reflect on the strides we’ve made and the work left to do to advance our mission – building a more equitable and just society through higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The coalition includes California Completes, a higher education and workforce research nonprofit offering guidance to state policy makers; InsideTrack, an organization that offers personalized coaching to help students succeed; ProjectAttain!, Dr. Su Jin Jez, executive director of California Completes.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

” “It became very clear to us that just focusing on addressing the financial burdens would not solve the problem of this movement away from postsecondary education,” he said. “They’re far more interested in what the translation is from college to job.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2024

Department of Education (ED) and the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) held the Attaining College Excellence and Equity Summit: Holistic Advising and Wraparound Services in Washington, D.C. Dr. Aaron Thompson, president of the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education, said equity must be a top priority.

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IHEP

APRIL 5, 2023

President Biden’s FY24 budget proposal included several much-needed increases in higher education funding. Pell Grants put postsecondary education closer within reach for more than seven million middle- and low-income families each year.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Therefore, in the postsecondary education arena, institutional decision-makers respond to short-term budgeting rewards. Figure 1 Postsecondary institutional budgets depend largely on tuition.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 6, 2023

He was the first Latinx person to be named president of a community college, a founder and member-at-large of the Arizona Minority Education Policy Analysis Center at the Commission for Postsecondary Education, and a founding board member of the American Association of Hispanics in Education.

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IHEP

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The Institute for Higher Education Policy. The most important door that will ever open: Realizing the mission of higher education through equitable admission policies. The Institute for Higher Education Policy. Race and ethnicity in higher education: A status report. References. i Eckerson Peters, E.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

In April, Dr. Aaron Thompson, president of the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE), participated in the Attaining College Excellence and Equity Summit put together by the U.S. Department of Education and the Institute for Higher Education Policy.

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HESA

MAY 24, 2023

Specifically: How do we ensure sustainability through sound institutional financial health practices, continuous improvement and healthy competition in the postsecondary education sector? And these ones suggest that there is a lot of room for improvement in the state of the Higher Education policy discourse in Ontario.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

” The Crest of a ‘New Wave’ In the strategic plan, the commission notes the proposal is part of a “new wave” of higher education policy focused on value rather than enrollment or degree attainment. “Humanities majors want jobs, too.”

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 15, 2023

” Kaufman said the addition of secret shoppers in one piece in a broader effort by the department to protect students from bad actors in postsecondary education. The department’s decision to use secret shoppers is “four decades overdue,” he said.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

billion in grants and establish policy for nearly $120 billion in Federal student aid every year.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

We have tons of evidence, good causal evidence, that for an additional year of postsecondary education, earnings are going to increase by between 8 and 10 percent. It’s a reasonable question: For all the money that they’re putting in, are they seeing higher earnings from grads? The problem is all in the variation.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 10, 2023

OPMs “imported the worst features of predatory for-profit institutions into traditional higher education and normalized them through ubiquity,” said Barmak Nassirian, vice president for higher education policy at Veterans Education Success, an advocacy group.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

Word in January that the University of Arkansas system is contemplating buying Phoenix raises fascinating questions about the state of for-profit higher ed and how to regulate the increasingly blurry landscape of postsecondary education and training. Is our public policy still overly focused on those institutions?

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Department of Education, higher education lobbyists and policy experts say. “Their priorities are going to be much more about building a record with an eye toward 2024,” said Frederick Hess, director of education policy studies for the American Enterprise Institute, a right-leaning think tank.

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