Making It Happen: Increasing College Access and Participation in California Higher Education

The Role of Private Postsecondary Providers

Monday, March 21, 2011

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The three public higher education systems in California cannot, by themselves, respond to increased demand for higher education. They, and the two private higher education systems, need to be re-engineered to function as five parts of one coherent system, collectively growing in capacity to keep pace with the state’s demand for an educated workforce.

In this report NUSIPR partnered with the University of Southern California's Center for Higher Education Policy Analysis to examine the problem and to offer eight policy steps that could help increase higher education participation and completion in California.