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- The Affordability of Higher Education: A Review of Recent Survey ResearchImmerwahr, John (The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, 2002-05-01)In 2001, the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education asked Public Agenda, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization, to review available surveys on public opinion related to the affordability of American higher education. This report reveals one of the most important concerns for the American public regarding higher education is how to pay the rising price of a college education.
- Great Expectations: How Californians View Higher EducationImmerwahr, John (The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, 2000-08-01)Great Expectations: How Californians View Higher Education is part of a broader effort of the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education and Public Agenda to stimulate a public discussion about the role of colleges and universities in maintaining and enhancing the opportunities for all Americans to participate fully in our society. This special survey complements a larger survey administered to the entire nation and released in May, called Great Expectations: How the Public and Parents—White, African American and Hispanic—View Higher Education.
- Great Expectations: How Coloradans View Higher EducationImmerwahr, John (The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, 2000-08-01)Great Expectations: How Coloradans View Higher Education is part of a broader effort of the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education and Public Agenda to stimulate a public discussion about the role of colleges and universities in maintaining and enhancing the opportunities for all Americans to participate fully in our society. This special survey complements a larger survey administered to the entire nation and released in May, called Great Expectations: How the Public and Parents—White, African American and Hispanic—View Higher Education.
- Great Expectations: How Floridians View Higher EducationImmerwahr, John (The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, 2000-08-01)Great Expectations: How Floridians View Higher Education is part of a broader effort of the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education and Public Agenda to stimulate a public discussion about the role of colleges and universities in maintaining and enhancing the opportunities for all Americans to participate fully in our society. This special survey complements a larger survey administered to the entire nation and released in May, called Great Expectations: How the Public and Parents—White, African American and Hispanic—View Higher Education
- Great Expectations: How New Yorkers View Higher EducationImmerwahr, John (The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, 2002-10-01)Great Expectations: How New Yorkers View Higher Education is part of a broader effort of the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education and Public Agenda to stimulate a public discussion about the role of colleges and universities in maintaining and enhancing the opportunities for all Americans to participate fully in our society. This report is based on two surveys on public attitudes about higher education conducted by Public Agenda earlier this year: one looking at national attitudes and another illuminating the views of residents of the State of New York. This report and related National Center publications are available at www.highereducation.org
- Great Expectations: How Pennsylvanians View Higher EducationImmerwahr, John (The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, 2000-05-01)Great Expectations: How Pennsylvanians View Higher Education is part of a broader effort of the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education and Public Agenda to stimulate a public discussion about the role of colleges and universities in maintaining and enhancing the opportunities for all Americans to participate fully in our society. This special survey complements a larger survey administered to the entire nation and released earlier this month, called Great Expectations: How the Public and Parents—White, African American and Hispanic—View Higher Education.
- Great Expectations: How the Public and Parents—White, African American and Hispanic— View Higher EducationImmerwahr, John; Foleno, Tony (The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, 2000-05-01)Great Expectations was a survey that the Public Agenda organization conducted to probe the public’s attitudes and opinions about higher education. This survey was unique in selectively oversampling to reach a group most interested in higher education: parents of high school students. Slightly over 1,000 respondents were drawn from the general public. In addition, the survey oversampled 201 white parents, 202 African American parents and 202 Hispanic parents in order to be able to distinguish these parents’ views about higher education from each other. As a result of the findings made possible by this oversampling, Great Expectations laid to rest the myth that parents within minority groups do not value higher education as highly as the general public.
- The Iron Triangle: College Presidents Talk about Costs, Access, and QualityImmerwahr, John; Johnson, Jean; Gasbarra, Paul (The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, 2008-10-01)“The Iron Triangle” is a small-scale exploratory piece of research that explores the perspective of college and university presidents. It examines the views of more than two dozen presidents who shared their thoughts in lengthy, one-on-one interviews. Those interviewed represent different kinds of higher education institutions—two- and four-year schools, private and public institutions, schools serving different segments of the population in different parts of the country. These interviews are the subject of the body of this report.
- The Price of Admission: The Growing Importance of Higher EducationImmerwahr, John (The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, 1998)In recent years, education has been at or near the top of the public’s concerns and it has been a major priority for the president and many of the nation’s governors. When leaders and the public speak of education, however, their main concern has typically been the nation’s K–12 schools. Today, the focus is turning to higher education (including both two-year and four-year colleges and universities). As America moves into the knowledge intensive world of the future, a college education will continue to take on much of the importance that a high school education had a generation ago; the growing importance of a higher education has spawned greater public attention and concern. To examine these issues, Public Agenda surveyed 700 Americans nationwide in February 1998. The respondents were specifically told that the questions about higher education referred to both two-year and four-year higher education, and to both public and private colleges and universities. These closed-ended interviews were also supplemented with in depth follow-up interviews with a number of the respondents. Because many of the same survey questions were also asked in 1993, the research shows not only what Americans think today but how their attitudes have changed and evolved in the last five years. This study was the first in a series of studies that Public Agenda conducted in collaboration with the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education.
- Squeeze Play: How Parents and the Public Look at Higher Education TodayImmerwahr, John; Johnson, Jean (The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, 2007)Traditionally, the United States higher education system has been the envy of the world for its high quality, accessibility to millions of Americans, ability to train generations of skilled workers, and its contribution to creating the vast American middle class. Today, however, higher education is experiencing new pressures. A new generation of students—including many minorities, children of recent immigrants, and middle-aged and older Americans—is seeking access to colleges and universities. This is happening precisely when public funding for higher education seems more strained than ever. Recently, the Secretary of Education’s Commission on the Future of Higher Education called for reforms such as greater accountability and productivity in higher education. This report from the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education and Public Agenda explores how the American public is thinking about higher education today. Are Americans pleased with the system as it exists, or are they looking for change? How is the system working from the public’s point of view and from the point of view of parents whose children may soon be students?
- With Diploma in Hand: Hispanic High School Seniors Talk About Their FutureImmerwahr, John (The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, 2003-06-01)The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, and Public Agenda, conducted focus groups in several states to better understand the gap between the high educational aspirations of Hispanic parents for their children and the low educational attainment of Hispanic students. With Diploma in Hand summarizes findings from the focus groups and includes commentaries from national advisory committee members who helped to shape and interpret the project. The purpose of this report is to assist policymakers and educators to better understand the challenges facing Hispanic high school students who attempt, and often fail, to negotiate the maze of financial, organizational, and social obstacles to higher education.