Top Features
Dramatically Bringing Down the Cost of Education with OER
Open education resources hold some of the answers to maintaining the quality of learning material while significantly reducing the cost of education, write David Wiley, Cable Green, and Louis Soares.
Building a Technically Skilled Workforce
Louis Soares and Stephen Steigleder propose a private-public partnership grant program to boost the middle-skill workers that America will require to be globally competitive.
A Seal We Can Trust
Julie Morgan explains what college accreditation is and how to fix the flaws in the accreditation system.Other Postsecondary Education Features
February 7, 2012
Open Educational Resources
Web-based educational tools hold the promise of both reducing the cost of higher education and helping learners complete their degrees.
February 2, 2012
There's a Growing Consensus in Support of Community College and Industry Partnerships
Stephen Steigleder urges policymakers to translate the increasing embrace of these important collaborations into a bill to help us build a technically skilled workforce.
February 2, 2012
Making College More Affordable
While President Obama's plan to make college more affordable will help many families, more can still be done to ensure every American's educational future, writes Julie Margetta Morgan.
December 23, 2011
Pell Grants Suffer a Serious Setback
Julie Ajinkya and Sophia Kerby demonstrate how a proposal to lower the time limit in the Pell Grant program disproportionately affects the most vulnerable students.
December 21, 2011
What Can We Learn from Law School?
Julie Morgan explains how looking at issues in legal education can help us better understand the problems that face all colleges.
November 21, 2011
Including More Student Voices in Higher Education Policymaking
Julie Margetta Morgan and Tsuki Hoshijima look at the role students play in higher education policy, and ways to make students’ voices a more powerful part of the higher education policy conversation.
November 15, 2011
House Budget Committee Is Searching for Excuses to Cut Pell Grants
Stephen Steigleder and Julie Margetta Morgan detail the House plan to prevent full funding for the Pell Grant program.
October 31, 2011
Leveraging Service Blueprinting to Rethink Higher Education
Amy L. Ostrom, Mary Jo Bitner, and Kevin A. Burkhard argue that higher education improvements and innovations should be viewed through a service lens and driven by focusing on students as customers.
October 17, 2011
Getting Nontraditional Education
Panelists at a recent CAP event discussed alternative ways for students to access higher education.
October 11, 2011