Explores why, as the higher education community shifts its focus from "access" to "access to what?," new maps--language and conceptions--are needed to help institutional leaders and policymakers update what is known about institutional structures and practices. (EV)

The Higher Education Research Program, 19 educational practitioners invited by The Pew Charitable Trusts to help take stock of higher education's strengths and weaknesses, its challenges and opportunities, is discussed. Three principal issues facing higher education include costs, the quality of teaching and learning, and making higher education…