The following interview is with Beth Smith, president of the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges. California recently introduced a bill to create a series of specified timelines for community…
Should Public Financial Aid be Made Available to Continuing Education Students? (Part 1)
Karen LaMarsh | Director of Professional Development and Training, Clayton State UniversityContinuing education may be offered by a university, community college or a technical school. Based on the eligibility criteria for federal financial aid, if a student has a high school…
The following recommendations are excerpted from Rethinking Pell Grants, a report released in April by the College Board, which focused on how the Pell Grant program could be improved for…
Four Ways Congress Can Help the New Traditional Student
Steve Gunderson | President, Association for Private Sector Colleges and UniversitiesPostsecondary education faces critical challenges in the coming years. These range from cost, access, technology and the skills gap to quality, productivity, accountability and globalization. To make matters even more…
Loan Increases Out of Synch with Education Goals
Lori Perkovich | Master's Student, New York UniversityRejecting Federal Funding to Better Serve Adult Students
Terry Rawls | President, Strategic Transitions GroupThe Flying Carpet that Caused Higher Education’s Commoditization
Jonathan Tice | Senior Vice President, Destiny SolutionsEducation Not So Much a Commodity as a Political Football
Michael Chanan | Professor, Roehampton UniversityGainful Employment Debate Continues
EvoLLLution NewsWireThird Wave of Funding Announced
EvoLLLution NewsWireMaking Pell Grants Work for Adults
Kathie Little | Senior Adviser for Student Aid Policy, The College BoardGo Higher Grant Looks to Increase Access for Kentucky’s Adult Students
Rebecca Gilpatrick | Director of Student Aid Services, KHEAAPell Grant Changes Proposed
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Weāve all heard about the need to educate vast numbers of adults in the United States in order to provide skilled workers and create economic growth. As recently as the…
Improving Education Quality in the Era of Outcomes-Based Funding
Thomas Lindsay | Director of the Center for Higher Education, Texas Public Policy FoundationIn what appears to be the next wave, 16 states have adopted, or are moving toward adopting, āoutcomes-based funding,ā through which a portion of state appropriations to public colleges and…
Alberta Proposes Sweeping Higher Education Changes
EvoLLLution NewsWireA five-page letter released this week from the Alberta Ministry of Enterprise and Advanced Education has higher education stakeholders in the province talking. Thomas Lukaszuk, deputy premier of Alberta and…
Federal Court Rules Against Gainful Employment
EvoLLLution NewsWireLast week, a federal court struck down the United States Department of Educationās āgainful employmentā regulations. The gainful employment regulations, which have been on hold since July 2012, were created…
Funding Public Institutions Without Government Support in a Decadeās Time
Anthony Frank | President, Colorado State UniversityHow Governments Can Facilitate Public Higher Education Growth
Thomas Lukaszuk | Deputy Premier and Minister for Advanced Education and Enterprise, Province of AlbertaLack of State Investment Opening the Door to Federal Influence in Higher Education
John Aubrey Douglass | Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Studies in Higher Education, UC BerkeleyCollege Partnership Trend Surfaces
EvoLLLution NewsWirePerformance Measurement Changes to Heighten Focus on Non-Traditional Students
Sandra Woodley | President, UT Permian BasinImagining Land Grants 50 Years in the Future
Scott Peters | Professor, Syracuse UniversityThe Future of Land-Grant Universities
Christine Geith | Assistant Provost and Executive Director of MSUglobal, Michigan State UniversityThe Basic Skills Crisis: A Barrier to Answering the Presidentās Postsecondary Call to Action
Rachel Unruh | Associate Director, National Skills CoalitionA New Accreditation Program Looms
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Lincoln Project Expected to Spark Conversation about Public Higher Education
EvoLLLution NewsWireOn Monday, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences announced a new initiative during an event at the University of California, Berkeley called the Lincoln Project: Excellence and Access in…
A Federal Perspective on Expanding LiLAs
Erik Paulsen | Congressman for Minnesotaās Third District, United States House of RepresentativesThe following interview is with Congressman Erik Paulsen, Representative for Minnesotaās third district. In 2011, Congressman Paulsen was part of a bipartisan group of lawmakers who reintroduced the Lifelong Learning…
The following interview is with Julianne Hanner, CEO of Hanner Enterprises, which operates McDonaldās restaurants in Grays Harbor and Pacific counties in Washington. Washington State legislated Lifelong Learning Account programs…