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Postsecondary Education

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation publishes content on postsecondary education and related issues. Find and access current and archived items in our database. 

Training America’s Next Generation of Workers - Seattle, Washington

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has released the study, Leaders & Laggards, A State by State Report Card on Public Postsecondary Education. The U.S. Chamber will provide a keynote address presenting the report in Seattle on October 10th, 2012. Hosted by the AWB Institute, this event will feature a panel of education and industry leaders to address the opportunities found in the report and formulate next steps for change in our workforce training systems necessary to produce the workforce needed to support Washington state businesses.

Summit on Higher Education - Indianapolis, Indiana

U.S. Forum for Policy Innovation President and former U.S. Secretary of Education, Margaret Spellings will be speaking at the Summit on Higher Education at the Economic Club of Indiana Meeting in Indianapolis.

Leaders & Laggards: A State-by-State Report Card on Public Postsecondary Education

Center for Education and Workforce
July 12, 2012
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This report identifies the best and worst performing states—the leaders and laggards— in public postsecondary education. It focuses on the performance of the institutions over which state governments have the most influence: public colleges and universities. In an effort to systematically measure the most important factors being watched by policymakers, business leaders, and concerned citizens, we graded state performance and policy.

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The Cost of Not Being Earnest (and Other Causes of Inefficiency)

Center for Education and Workforce
June 5, 2012

We started the lead-up to the June 19th release of our report, Leaders & Laggards: A State-by-State Report Card on Public Postsecondary Education, with a look at the skyrocketing costs and inefficiency of higher education in the blog “One Really Expensive Graduation Party.” The second part of the series went into more detail on one of the leading causes of that inefficiency

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