Description
Book SynopsisThe authors emphasize the need to rethink policies governing financial aid, remediation, and institutional funding to promote degree completion.
Trade ReviewGetting 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
Table of ContentsPreface
Introduction
Part I: The Challenges
Chapter 1. Increasing Higher Education Attainment in the United States: Challenges and Opportunities
Chapter 2. Graduation Rates at America's Universities: What We Know and What We Need to Know
Part II: The Performance and Potential of Sub-Baccalaureate Programs
Chapter 3. Can Community Colleges Achieve Ambitious Graduation Goals?
Chapter 4. Certificate Pathways to Postsecondary Success and Good Jobs
Chapter 5. Apprenticeships as an Alternative Route to Skills and Credentials
Part III: The Relationship between Policy and Completion
Chapter 6. Financial Aid: A Blunt Instrument for Increasing Degree Attainment
Chapter 7. Remediation: The Challenges of Helping Underprepared Students
Chapter 8. Equalizing Credits and Rewarding Skills: Credit Portability and Bachelor's Degree Attainment
Part IV: The Lessons from Three States
Chapter 9. The Challenge of Scaling Successful Policy Innovations: A Case Study of Three Colorado Community College System Grants
Chapter 10. Efforts to Improve Productivity: The Impact of Higher Education Reform in Texas
Chapter 11. The Ohio Experience with Outcomes-Based Funding
Conclusion
List of Contributors
Index
