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Report finds unemployment for recent college graduates is 8.9%, compared with 22.9% of job-seekers with just a high school education and 31.5% among high school dropouts. Further, college majors that are more closely aligned with particular occupations and industries tend to have lower unemployment rates. (Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, January 2012)

Examines connection between college majors and career earnings. Difference in earnings potential between one major and another can be more than 300%. Further, majors are highly segregated by race/ethnicity and gender, with few exceptions. (Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, May 2011)

The report finds that the postsecondary systems need a more deliberate strategy for dividing precious state resources among themselves to produce the necessary college degrees. Report looks at Who attends? What We Spend, Who Pays, and What the Money Buys, and offers policy considerations for each question and three crucial questions for policy leaders. (Institute for Higher Education Leadership & Policy, October 2011)

A new report says California's public higher education segments are not on track to significantly boost the number of undergraduate degrees granted each year in order to turn around the state's economy. The report finds that the postsecondary systems need a more deliberate strategy for dividing state resources among themselves to produce the necessary degrees. (California Watch, 10/12/11)