Beyond Free College
Making Higher Education Work for 21st Century Students
Abstract
Beyond Free College outlines an audacious national agenda—consistent with, but far more comprehensive than, the current “free college” movement—that builds on the best of US higher education’s populist history such as the G.I. Bill and the community college transfer function. The authors align a wide constellation of higher education trends—online learning, prior learning assessment, competency-based learning, high school college-credit— with a rapidly shifting student transfer environment that privileges college credit as the pivotal educational catalyst to boost access and completion. The book’s agenda seeks greater productive investment in postsecondary education by privileging a single metric—lower-cost-per-degree-granted—as the animating driver of a transfer pathway that will fulfill the potential of its historical, progressive innovators. Beyond Free College’s goal is as simple as it is urgent: To galvanize higher education advocates in an effort to reorganize, reorient, and reignite the transfer function to serve the needs of a neotraditional student population that now constitutes the majority of college-goers in America; and in ways that advance completion, not just access to higher education.
Schlagworte
US higher education USA higher education G.I. Bill neotraditional students online learning prior learning assessment transfer pathway transfer student reform transfer students college transfer students community college community college reform competency-based learning high school college-credit higher education access higher education policies higher education policy higher education trends educational innovations- 105–118 Chapter 9 Tomorrowland 105–118
- 137–154 Notes 137–154
- 155–162 Index 155–162
- 163–164 About the Authors 163–164