Utilizing College Access & Completion Innovation Funds to Improve Postsecondary Attainment in California
| Title: | Utilizing College Access & Completion Innovation Funds to Improve Postsecondary Attainment in California |
| Author: | Jones, Dennis P. Ewell, Peter T. |
| Date: | 2009 |
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| Price: | FREE |
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| Description: |
The College Access and Completion
Innovation Fund proposed by the Obama
administration in the FY 2009-10 budget
holds considerable promise as a tool to
leverage badly needed change in higher
education nationally—and especially in
California. It is potentially the most flexible
tool among those currently available to
promote attainment of President Obama’s
goal for higher education: “by 2020, America
will once again have the highest proportion of
college graduates in the world.”
latitude in ways they use funds to further the College Completion agenda. Accordingly, this policy has been written with two goals in mind: 1. To contribute to the on-going discussion about the design criteria that should be established at the federal level to govern state use of College Completion Program funds. 2. To recommend a subset of activities that would do the most to further California’s contribution toward the national goal. |