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National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, 2011
"National CrossTalk" is a publication of the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education. The National Center promotes public policies that enhance opportunities for quality education and training beyond high school. The primary purpose of "National CrossTalk" is to stimulate informed discussion and debate of higher…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Quality, Foreign Countries, Public Policy
Cohn, Carl A. – Claremont Graduate University (NJ1), 2009
As a scholar/practitioner who has been involved for more than forty years in efforts to improve urban schools and districts, the author is struck by the confluence of factors that seem to be coming together to support this major new effort to rescue the neediest students in urban America. Is it possible that the idealism of the 1960s is finally…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Urban Schools, State Government, Educational Policy
Mattoon, Richard H. – Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, 2006
The future of higher education and its relationship to economic growth were the focus of a one-day conference at the Chicago Fed on November 2, 2005. Cosponsored by the bank, the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, and the Midwestern Higher Education Compact, the event brought together over 100 academic, business, and government leaders.…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Higher Education, Financial Support, Delivery Systems
Mattoon, Richard H. – Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, 2005
Home to several excellent universities and colleges, the Midwest has long benefited from the region's strong higher education system. However, with projected demographic changes and state support declines, institutions of higher learning face significant challenges in the years ahead. The author identifies two trends: (1) Increasing shift towards…
Descriptors: Higher Education, State Aid, Financial Support, Educational Trends
Mattoon, Richard H. – Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, 2006
The future of higher education and its relationship to economic growth were the focus of a one-day conference at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago on November 2, 2005. Cosponsored by the bank, the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, and the Midwestern Higher Education Compact, the event brought together over 100 academic, business, and…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Higher Education, Financial Support, Conferences (Gatherings)