This report examines the changes that have taken place since the 1998 UNESCO World Conference on Higher Education, in particular the main engines of change and their impact on higher education. This trend report is intended to provide background analysis and to animate discussion at the 2009 UNESCO World Conference on Higher Education. It examines the central issues and the contextual factors that have shaped higher education in the past decade, and presents prospects for the immediate future. Much of this report is concerned with the ways in which higher education has responded to the challenge of massification. Other issues examined include globalisation; inequalities in access; increasing student mobility; teaching, learning and curricula; quality assurance, accountability and qualifications frameworks; financing and the public good-private good debate; the growth of private higher education; the academic profession; the research environment; information and communications technology; and the impact of demographics and the economic crisis on the development and reform of higher education in the immediate future.

Trends in Global Higher Education: Tracking an Academic Revolution: A Report Prepared for the UNESCO 2009 World Conference on Higher Education

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Answers In The Tool Box: Academic Intensity, Attendance Patterns, And Bachelor's Degree Attainment

The Toolbox Revisited is a data essay that follows a nationally representative cohort of students from high school into postsecondary education, and asks what aspects of their formal schooling contribute to completing a bachelor’s degree by their mid-20s. The universe of students is confined to those who attended a four-year college at any time, thus including students who started out in other types of institutions, particularly community colleges.

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Executive Summary: The Toolbox Revisited--Paths to Degree Completion from High School through College.

Table 1 Correlations between institutional mean scores of NSSE clusters of effective educational practices and institutional graduation rates (N=680 4-year colleges and universities) .

https://nces.ed.gov/npec/pdf/Kuh_Team_Report.pdf

What Matters to Student Success: A Review of the Literature

Growing concerns about low awareness and take-up rates for government support programs like college financial aid have spurred calls to simplify the application process and enhance visibility. We present results from a randomized field experiment in which low-income individuals receiving tax preparation help were also offered immediate assistance and a streamlined process to complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) for themselves or their children. Treated participants were also provided with aid estimates that were compared against tuition cost amounts for nearby colleges. The combined assistance and information treatment substantially increased FAFSA submissions and ultimately the likelihood of college attendance, persistence, and aid receipt. In particular, high school seniors whose parents received the treatment were 8 percentage points more likely to have completed two years of college, going from 28% to 36%, during the first three years following the experiment. Families who received aid information but no assistance with the FAFSA did not experience improved outcomes. The findings suggest many other opportunities for using personal assistance to increase participation in programs that require filling out forms to become eligible. JEL Codes: I2, H4, J24. Copyright 2012, Oxford University Press.

https://cepa.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/Bettinger%20Long%20Oreopoulos%20Sanbonmatsu%20-%20FAFSA%20paper%201-22-12.pdf

The Role of Application Assistance and Information in College Decisions: Results from the H&R Block FAFSA Experiment*

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The Toolbox Revisited: Paths to Degree Completion From High School Through College.

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Women and men of the engineering path: A model for analyses of undergraduate careers

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The Bologna Process for U.S. Eyes: Re-learning Higher Education in the Age of Convergence

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Clifford Adelman

Papers

Answers In The Tool Box: Academic Intensity, Attendance Patterns, And Bachelor's Degree Attainment

The Toolbox Revisited: Paths to Degree Completion From High School Through College.

Women and men of the engineering path: A model for analyses of undergraduate careers

The Bologna Process for U.S. Eyes: Re-learning Higher Education in the Age of Convergence

A Parallel Postsecondary Universe: The Certification System in Information Technology.