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An example of how to unbundle higher education by providing knowledge transfer without the cost of a university.

Report by Jobs for the Future on how to accelerate student completion to degrees. Authored by Nancy Hoffman.

Acceleration is a key strategy of Complete College America

Presents the next step taken by the Cross-State Data Work Group: a comparative analysis of a comprehensive set of intermediate milestones and final measures of success that practitioners and policymakers can use to rethink and remake their approaches to increasing student achievement.(Jobs for the Future, February 2012)

Outlines recent policy changes in Florida, North Carolina, Ohio and Texas that relevant to the completion agenda, political environment, and governance to show progress in the Completion by Design initiative. (Jobs for the Future, January 2012)

article in Forum Futures in 2009 from Anthony Carnevale discussing the need for better systems to align higher education and the workforce. Focuses on a data system to better track skill demands and training opportunities.

Report from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce that provides a national and state-by-state analysis of job requirements through 2018 and the education level that will be required. He argues that without an effort to increase college completion, many of the jobs in the near future will go unfilled.

Story in the Denver Post about the recommendation to significantly cut financial aid, with the hope of stabilizing it for the future.

Editorial on Georgia's need for a more targeted strategy for higher education

Report concludes that the U.S. will need an additional 20 million workers with at least some postsecondary education over the next 15 years to meet future economic requirements and to reduce income inequality. (Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, June 2011)

Story in Chronical about online course provider that is providing more competency based assessments and instruction, instead of degrees. Students get portfolio of skills instead

Story on movement toward more customized postsecondary experiences. Unbundling certification, assessment, social and other elements of education

Story on DIY higher education and a provider tapping into professors at elite institutions

Paper from the Committee on Student Financial Assistance that addresses affordability issues. It sights research on the low bachelor's degree attainment rates of students who start at community colleges.

Report that sets ambitious goals to increase the college completion rates and decrease achievement gaps at California Community Colleges

Proposal from WISCAPE to set aside $1,000 per student aside at birth for Wisconsin children that could be used for higher education purposes.

Report from Excelencia in Education on increasing college completion. It is the cornerstone of a new project with support from the Lumina and Gates Foundation.

Recommendations from the Governor's Higher Education Funding Task Force include: increasing the number of residents graduating with bachelor's degrees, especially in STEM fields; providing the universities with flexibility to set tuition; expanding financial assistance to low- and middle- income students through private and public strategies; and holding public universities accountable for graduating more students. (Washington Governor's Higher Education Funding Task Force, January 2011)

Paper on the impact of the No Worker Left Behind program in Michigan on retraining the workforce.