Increasing higher education attainment in the United States: Challenges and opportunities

Getting to Graduation: The Completion Agenda in Higher Education

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 17-47

  Hauptman, Arthur M ^a  

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4. Snyder and Dillow, Digest of Educational Statistics, 2009, table 180.
5. Clifford Adelman, Spaces between the Numbers (Washington, DC: Institute for Higher Education Policy, 2009).
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7. Education at a Glance, 2010, pp. 72-80 (for international figures).
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9. Adelman, Spaces between the Numbers, pp. 14-35
10. Information on the Bologna process can be found at its official website, www.ehea.org.
11. Spaces between the Numbers, pp. 22-25.
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23. Arthur M. Hauptman, "Using Institutional Incentives to Improve Student Performance", pp. 123-33
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25. Dennis Jones, "Defining Attainment and Policy Responses to Improve Performance" (paper presented to a joint meeting of the Miller Center of Public Affairs, Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, National Conference of State Legislatures, and National Governors Association, Charlottesville, VA, Dec. 6, 2010, www.nchems.org/pubs/docs).
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35. Auguste et al., Winning by Degrees, p. 26.
36. Details of the Louisiana program can be found at www.regents.state.la.us.
37. Ravitch, Death and Life of the Great American School System, pp. 31
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39. National Governors Association, Complete to Compete, p. 7
40. Essential Steps and Model Policies, available online at www.completecollege.org.
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44. Carnevale, Smith, and Strohl, Help Wanted. In a January 2011 opinion piece, Carnevale makes a spirited defense of the need for more college graduates in the future while citing problems with some government forecasts;
45. Anthony Carnevale, "College Is Still Worth It", Inside Higher Education, Jan. 14, 2011.
46. Gates Foundation, "Why College Completion?"
47. Auguste et al., Winning by Degrees, p. 7.
48. "From Wall Street to Wal-Mart: Why College Graduates Are Not Getting Good Jobs" (Policy Paper, Center for College Affordability and Productivity, Washington, DC, Dec. 16, 2010).
49. Charles Murray, Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America's Schools Back to Reality (New York: Crown Forum, 2008).
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51. Arthur Hauptman and Philip Nolan, "Four Budget Balancing Strategies in Higher Education" (paper prepared for OECD/IMHE Conference, Sept. 2010).
52. Frederick M. Hess, "Doing the Same Thing Over and Over Again", AEI Education Outlook, no. 11, p. 2.
53. Arthur M. Hauptman and Young Kim, Cost, Commitment, and Attainment: An International Comparison (Washington, DC: Jobs for the Future, May 2009), p. 19