The push to improve postsecondary education as a path to opportunity has evolved over the past generation – from a focus on expanding access to expanding access and success and making both more equitable. Now is the time to extend that focus to include value – the returns to students and society.
Define. Measure. Act.
The commission has tapped newly available data and insights to propose a new approach for measuring the value of education after high school and to recommend actions that college and university leaders, state and federal policymakers, and students and families can take to improve those returns and make them more equitable.
Final Report
Equitable Value: Promoting Economic Mobility and Social Justice through Postsecondary Education
Action Agenda
Value for Students. Value for Society.
Value includes economic and non-economic returns for students and society. Working with the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP), the commission brought together leading researchers to assess value from different angles and to recommend measures and potential improvements to those measures.
Value for Students
- Economic
- Student Investment
- Wealth Overview
- Wealth and Education Debt
- Non-Economic
- Overview
- Learning Outcomes
- Skills Gaps
- Wellbeing
Public and Private Investment
Economic and Non-Economic Returns
Elevating Equitable Value
A research series, developed by the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) and in partnership with field-based researchers, explores critical questions about equitable student outcomes and sheds new light on the economic benefits of earning a college degree.