Advancing Higher Education Access and Success
Overview
The goal of this work is to foster policy and institutional reforms that improve disadvantaged people's access to and success in high-quality higher education.
The Challenge
Despite some progress worldwide over the past few decades in making higher education more accessible, disparities persist in student access to and graduation from two- and four-year colleges and universities. These disparities limit the workforce opportunities, democratic participation and life chances of students from poor, marginalized backgrounds.
What We're Doing
Our work seeks to generate policy and institutional reforms that improve standards of teaching and learning and that remove the barriers to successful participation in higher education.
In the United States our work focuses on:
- Establishing stronger links between two- and four-year colleges
- Creating robust tuition and financial aid policies geared to the needs of marginalized and low-income students
- Scaling up effective academic support programs.
Similarly, our work in other parts of the world focuses on students from excluded backgrounds and supports reforms that:
- Make higher education institutions more accessible to students
- Provide financial and academic support that aid in their completion of degrees
Learn more about how our strategies and approaches shape our grant making.
From the Newsroom
- Report by Ford Grantee Shows Escalating Student Debt In this challenging economic climate, college tuition costs are also rising
From the Library
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Weaving Success: Voices of Change in African Higher Education
This book focuses on nine countries whose universities participated in the Partnership for Higher Education in Africa program and showcases the transformative changes that happened over the past decade at each university—from using new technologies to improving outcomes for students.
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What We're Following
- Dilemmas of Racial Inequality in American Higher Education NYU's Robert Teranishi examines the experiences of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the U.S. higher education system
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