ERIC Number: ED612754
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2021-May
Pages: 48
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Ensuring Equitable Postsecondary Value: An Action Agenda
Postsecondary Value Commission
The "action agenda" is a key deliverable for the Postsecondary Value Commission that outlines policies and practices that institutional leaders, federal policymakers, and state policymakers should implement to address systemic barriers that prevent Black, Latinx, Indigenous, and AAPI students, students from low-income backgrounds, and women from reaping equitable returns from postsecondary education and achieving economic and social mobility. The action agenda also provides key questions that students and families should expect institutions to answer related to postsecondary value. These recommendations are organized around five key focus areas: (1) Equalize Access to Increase Postsecondary Value; (2) Remove Affordability as an Impediment to Postsecondary Value; (3) Eliminate Completion Gaps and Strengthen Post-College Outcomes to Ensure Postsecondary Value; (4) Improve Data to Expose and Address Inequitable Postsecondary Value; and (5) Promote Social Justice by Providing Equitable Postsecondary Value. This action agenda is meant to help each stakeholder group identify and correct inequitable postsecondary practices through direct policy and practice changes that will lead to a more just world. It also seeks to inspire stakeholders to work together to share information, align systems, scale best practices, and rebuild the postsecondary system as an instrument for dismantling systemic racial, socioeconomic, and gender-based inequities.
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Access to Education, Student Costs, Graduation, Data Use, Social Justice, Minority Group Students, Females, Low Income Students, Equal Education, Postsecondary Education
Postsecondary Value Commission. Available from: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. e-mail: ValueCommission@IHEP.org; Website: https://www.postsecondaryvalue.org/
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Postsecondary Education
Audience: Policymakers; Students; Parents
Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Postsecondary Value Commission
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