Earning a bachelor's degree is increasingly important to an individual's longer-term economic prospects. Communities, at all levels, also benefit when their members earn postsecondary credentials, through improved economic, social, and health outcomes. Yet, despite an increase in college participation over the last two decades, severe inequities…

In fiscal year 2007, the majority of the Department of Defense's (DOD) basic research obligations were provided to higher education institutions. DOD reimburses these institutions for both direct and indirect costs for research. Two federal agencies, DOD and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), negotiate indirect cost rates used to…

According to the Washington Council of Lawyers, the Civil Rights Division has taken the position that segregation in state higher education systems is tolerable, so long as certain steps are taken to equalize the quality of schools. While upgrading quality is certainly important, the problem is that "equalization" combined with open…

A nationwide research project analyzed the impact of that shift in national policy as it affected Title I part A of the Higher Education Act (HEA) and what was implemented under it. Data were gathered about the nature of HEA, Title I, 1965, and its 1976 Amendments related to the continuing education programs funded and operational in sixty public…

Seeking to influence the presidential campaign, higher-education leaders outlined an agenda for Reagan's successor that included ways to expand aid to colleges and ways colleges could help the country meet challenges expected in the next decade. (MLW)