Painting a Post-Election Picture: Higher Education Policy After November 5

A good, thought-provoking article (PDF) from Public Purpose:

By the end of the next President’s first term:

✔ the United States will have three million more jobs requiring a bachelor’s degree and not enough college graduates to fill them;

✔ 90 percent of the fastest-growing jobs, 60 percent of all new jobs, and 40 percent of manufacturing jobs will require some form of postsecondary education; and

✔ global competition will demand research and innovation on a scale that even the U.S. is not yet prepared to sustain.
Yet little has been said at the hustings. In July, William Kirwan, chancellor of the University System of Maryland, said, “I am disappointed that the candidates have not spent more time on higher education, and in particular on the issues of access to higher education and the urgency of having a much higher percentage of our young people go to and succeed in college.”