Webinar: Meltdown in Higher Education: Why 5 Million College Students Are Missing – Oct 23

Posted by Yes We Must Coalition on September 24, 2024

Using data from the National Center for Education Statistics, Tom Mortenson calculates that there are about 5.2 million undergraduate students missing from higher education:  all (or nearly all) would have been Pell Grant recipients.  A national authority on higher education enrollment trends, Tom will interpret the growing gap in equity trends in college enrollment and persistence and discuss the need for policy reforms.  How can your college/university or organization learn from the data and be part of necessary change and opportunity? 

Register here for this webinar.  There is no fee for individuals at Yes We Must Coalition member schools; there is a $35 per individual fee for non-member attendees.  All are invited to attend!

Date and Time: October 23, 2:00–3:30 PM

Tom Mortenson has been a student of higher education finance, generally, and college affordability, in particular, for more than 50 years.  His career includes employment at the University of Minnesota, Illinois Board of Higher Education, Illinois State Scholarship Commission, and ACT.  For more than 25 years he has been a senior scholar at The Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education. His work has exposed and challenged public policy choices that have produced the sharp decline in opportunity for higher education, and these data were a powerful motivation for the founding of the Yes We Must Coalition in 2012.