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Goal 2025 : The Path to Equity and Economic Success For Our Cities . Presented by. Dr. James L. Applegate. Vice President, Lumina Foundation . Goal 2025. To increase the percentage of Americans who hold high-quality degrees and credentials to 60 percent by 2025. .
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Goal 2025: The Path to Equity and Economic Success For Our Cities Presented by Dr. James L. Applegate Vice President, Lumina Foundation
Goal 2025 • To increase the percentage of Americans who hold high-quality degrees and credentials to 60 percent by 2025.
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Income by level of education Source: US Census, Current Population Survey master’s bachelor’s associate high school Less than high school
Income inequality grows along with the postsecondary skills gap
To Succeed We Must Focus On 21st Century Students • Of the 17.6M undergrads now enrolled 75% are juggling work, family, and school
To Succeed We Must Serve Our Future Millions Data for all races exclude Hispanics. Population Division, Population Projections, U.S. Census Bureau. Released 2008.
To Succeed We Must Close Income Gaps Postsecondary Education Opportunity, “Bachelor’s Degree Attainment by Age 24 by Family Income Quartiles, 1970 to 2008.
Yet We Serve Those Least Who Need Us Most College Board
Total Cost of Attendance Covered by Maximum Pell Grant Award Source: American Council on Education (2007). “ Status Report on the Pell Grant Program, 2007” cited in EdTrust (2010) Opportunity Adrift.
Change in Distribution of State Grants Based on Need Source: NASSGAP Report 2007-08: Undergraduate Grant Aid in Constant 2007-08 Dollars: 1997-98 through 2007-08 (in millions of dollars).
Flagships give the same amount of aid to high-income students as they do to low-income students . “Opportunity Adrift,” The Education Trust, 2010.
To Succeed Cities Must Collaborate (http://www.ssireview.org/blog/entry/channeling_change_making_collective_impact_work)
To Succeed We Need Catalytic Approaches Scaling Effective Practice Public Policy Advocacy Public Will Building
So What is a City to Do? • Set audacious goals • Focus on results and have the difficult conversations • Forbid blame games and excuses • Create aligned value chains from pre-K to workforce • Target 21st century students • Collaborate for collective impact (beyond the usual suspects) • Tackle academic, financial, and social college readiness • Serve the underserved • Measure learning and demand quality • Increase system productivity • Align resources and priorities
College is necessary Qualified students have the opportunity to go to college Source: Public Agenda and National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education