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Delivering a Promise: American Innovations for Promoting College Access and Success. TRAVIS REINDL, JOBS FOR THE FUTURE (USA) FORUM ON HIGHER EDUCATION AND SOCIAL INCLUSION MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA 16 JULY 2008. Context. Finance - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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TRAVIS REINDL, JOBS FOR THE FUTURE (USA)
FORUM ON HIGHER EDUCATION AND SOCIAL INCLUSION
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA16 JULY 2008
Delivering a Promise: American Innovations for Promoting College
Access and Success
Context
Finance Institutional: public
subsidies based primarily on enrollment (input), as opposed to persistence and completion (throughput)
Student: evolution of grant aid (need merit need/merit); rise of loans
Programming Student success focus
driven by: Changing demographics K-12 reform movement
(pipeline ruptures) Rise of graduation rate as
an accountability metric Programs developed as
add-ons, funded by shifting combination of primarily federal and philanthropic investments
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Forces for Change: Demographic3
Forces for Change: Political
US Rankings on the World Stage: 1st: spending per
student (more than 2x OECD average)
19th: college completion (tied for last in OECD)
10th: percentage of 25-34 year olds with AA+
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New Approaches
Finance Institutional: movement
toward persistence and completion incentives in public subsidy Indiana Ohio Tennessee Texas
Student: emergence of “covenant” programs targeting low-income secondary students Indiana 21st Century Scholars Oklahoma’s Promise
Programming Early College High Schools
(five-year program for acquiring high school diploma, postsecondary credits up to AA)
Expansion of dual high school-college enrollment programs (to low SES schools and students)
Redesign of “gatekeeper” courses (National Center for Academic Transformation)
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Insights
The power of unintended consequences Need to develop policies that do not provide implicit
incentives for recruiting and retaining only the best and brightest
The need to confront conventional wisdom At-risk students often need challenge over remediation,
student success programs can be cost-effective, larger classes do not have to mean higher levels of attrition
The importance of scalability and sustainability Doing things differently has not really been the problem;
challenge has been doing things differently at scale and through political and fiscal cycles
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