This volume of RSF presents new evidence about higher education in the United States. As
we use the term, higher education is synonymous with postsecondary education and …

We gratefully acknowledge the Spencer Foundation and Wisconsin Center for the
Advancement of Postsecondary Education (WISCAPE) at the University of Wisconsin …

Competitiveness (P3) at Arizona State University. P3 is a new initiative led by existing faculty
and research staff of the L. William Seidman Research Institute in the WP Carey School of …

The twenty-first century has brought with it profound challenges to the nature, values, and
control of higher education in the United States. Societal expectations and public resources …

Postsecondary educational institutions in the United States are facing increasing financial
stress and waning public support. Unless these trends can be changed, higher education …

for accountability, and their parents and the bear fact a that major burden in financing the
postsecondary enterprise through tuition and/or tax dollars, this undertaking is most …

Despite a decade of critiques that research on higher education is largely unrelated to
urgent policy issues, little seems to have changed. This article (from the 1995 ASHE …

Few topics in higher education have generated as much attention and controversy recently
as the quality and effectiveness of colleges and universities. Despite the numerous …

The challenges public comprehensive universities face today are expanding, they have
been challenged to enroll and graduate more students, adopt new technologies that lower …

Assessing the effectiveness of colleges and universities is an enigma. On the one hand,
judgments of effectiveness are made regularly by potential students, parents, faculty …