Join the Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education (WISCAPE) Brown Bag Forum, “Return to the Top: The Role of Increasing College Productivity in America’s Quest for Global Leadership in Degree Attainment,” Tuesday, April 20, 2010, noon – 1:00 p.m. at the Educational Sciences Building, Room 259.
PRESENTERS:
Douglas Harris
Associate Professor, Department of Educational Policy Studies
Faculty Affiliate, WISCAPE
Faculty Affiliate, WCER
University of Wisconsin – Madison
Sara Goldrick-Rab
Assistant Professor, Departments of Educational Policy Studies and Sociology
WISCAPE Senior Scholar
Faculty Affiliate, WCER
University of Wisconsin – Madison
This program is free and open to the public. Bring your lunch. Coffee, soda, and cookies will be provided.
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE EVENT:
As America’s supply of skilled workers falls behind demand, the country is losing its long-held advantage over competing nations. Many leaders—most notably President Obama—have made it a national priority to return the United States to its former place as number one in the world in degree attainment. However, declines in the college graduates pose a major challenge to achieving this goal; this is unsurprising, partly because little research has explored the cost-effectiveness of various college programs.
Professors Douglas Harris and Sara Goldrick-Rab will present findings from a study that combines the impacts of prominent programs with information about costs to produce estimates of cost-effectiveness.The professors consider policies ranging from smaller faculty-student ratios to need-based financial aid and the TRIO programs, concluding that many of these programs have high costs compared with their relatively small impact on students.
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