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Download full textBaum, Sandy; Kurose, Charles; McPherson, Michael – Future of Children, 2013
This overview of postsecondary education in the United States reviews the dramatic changes over the past fifty years in the students who go to college, the institutions that produce higher education, and the ways it is financed. The article, by Sandy Baum, Charles Kurose, and Michael McPherson, creates the context for the articles that follow on…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Postsecondary Education, Educational Finance, Institutional Characteristics
Direct linkMurray, Corey; Ullman, Ellen – Community College Journal, 2010
President Obama wants it. Billionaire business mogul turned philanthropist Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda, say it's key to the nation's economic future. But are America's colleges really poised to regain the world lead in college graduates by 2020? Doing so would require adding an additional 5 million graduates during the next decade--a lofty…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Graduation Rate, College Graduates, College Role
