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US POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION

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INDEX: 100 (1979)

Housing

I CAN’T REALLY AFFORD IT, BUT BUYING A HOUSE IS A GREAT INVESTMENT AND WILL PAY ITSELF OFF IN JUST A FEW YEARS

MY HOUSE STOPPED GOING UP IN VALUE AND I STILL HAVEN’T PAID OFF MY MORTGAGE

EDUCATION

I CAN’T REALLY AFFORD IT, BUT GOING TO COLLEGE WILL LAND ME A GREAT JOB AND I’LL BE ABLE TO PAY OFF ALL MY LOANS

Source: Bloomberg

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HousingEDUCATION

I CAN’T REALLY AFFORD IT, BUT GOING TO COLLEGE WILL LAND ME A GREAT JOB AND I’LL BE ABLE TO PAY OFF ALL MY LOANS

Source: Bloomberg

A BUBBLE WAITING TO BURST?

Source: Rasmussen 2014

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2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

PERCENTAGE WHO SAID YES

IS COLLEGE A GOOD INVESTMENT

Source: Grapevine Study | Center for the Study of Education Policy

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STATE FINANCIAL SUPPORT 2008-2013

4 OUT OF 5 STUDENTS ADMIT TO DRIFTING THROUGH

33% OF STUDENTS TRANSFER TO ANOTHER INSTITUTION

OVER 400K STUDENTS DROP OUT BEFORE GRADUATING

A STARKER REALITY…

Source: Chronicle of Higher Education

LOW-INCOME STUDENTS FARE WORST

TIMELY COMPLETION RATES4-YEAR SCHOOLSTIMELY COMPLETION RATES2-YEAR SCHOOLS

Source: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics

58%

30%

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LOW-INCOME STUDENTS

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PROVIDERSEMPLOYERSYOUTH

Source: McKinsey 2012

ARE GRADUATES ADEQUATELY PREPARED?

PERCENTAGE WHO SAID YES

15 PERCENTOF TAXI DRIVERS HAVE A COLLEGE DEGREE

“NEARLY HALF ARE OVERQUALIFIED FOR THEIR JOBS” USA TODAY, JAN 2013

THE NEW MAJORITY STUDENTS

Source: GATES FOUNDATION 2014

23% 36% 46% 47%SINGLE PARENTS OVER AGE 25 HAVE A DAY JOB INDEPENDENT

STUDENTS

COLLEGES ARE NOT STUDENT READYNOT

“STUDENT READY”

THE SHIFT IN STUDENT DEMOGRAPHICSHAS LEFT MANY COLLEGES

RISE OF ALTERNATIVES…

POCKETS OF INNOVATIONBUT BARRIERS EXIST PREVENTING SCALE

SHOW ME THE MONEYTRADITIONALLY THREE MAJOR SOURCES

GOVERNMENT

STUDENTS & PARENTS

PRIVATE SECTOR

A DIFFERENT INVESTMENTNON-LEARNING FOCUSED

TEXAS TECH | $8.4M

AUBURN | $52M

MISSOURI STATE

GOVERNMENT

STUDENTS & PARENTS

PRIVATE SECTOR

TEXAS TECH | $8.4M

AUBURN | $52M

MISSOURI STATE

PRIVATE SECTOR INVESTMENTGAINING MOMENTUM

CULTUREINCLUDING LEADERSHIP

CULTURETHE NEED FOR STRONG LEADERSHIP

POLICY AND REGULATIONDATED OR BUREAUCRATIC REGULATIONS

FOUNDATION APPROACH

HOW A FOUNDATION APPROACH WORKSA FOUNDATION APPROACH

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HOW A FOUNDATION APPROACH WORKSCONVENE MULTIPLE SECTORS

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UNITED STATES PROGRAMWorking to ensure that all students graduate from high school prepared for college and have an opportunity to earn a postsecondary degree.

COLLEGE-READY EDUCATION

POST-SECONDARY SUCCESS

WASHINGTON STATE

UNITED STATES PROGRAMWorking to ensure that all students graduate from high school prepared for college and have an opportunity to earn a postsecondary degree.

COLLEGE-READY EDUCATION

POST-SECONDARY SUCCESS

WASHINGTON STATE

PERSONALIZED LEARNING

FLEXIBLE PATHWAYS

METRICS AND ACCOUNTABILITY

FINANCIAL AID REFORM

POST-SECONDARYSUCCESS

CRITICAL PARTNERSHIPSWORK WITH TECH PROVIDERS AND CBE NETWORK TO BUILD ROADMAPS AND GENERATE INFLUENCE

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RESEARCHHigh quality courseware, implemented in appropriate ways, has the potential to improve learning outcomes, course success, across a broad population of students.

A GROWING BODY OF

HYPOTHESISBlended and personalized digital

courseware can out perform traditional face-to-face and fully online classes to help solve the drop-out crisis.

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

POSTSECONDARY COURSEWARE $60M INVESTED BETWEEN 2009-2014

OPEN LEARNING

The National Center forAcademic Transformation

QUANTWAY

STATWAY

OPEN COURSE

LIBRARY

RESEARCHCONTINUING OUR

A Review of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Post Secondary Success Portfolio: Lessons from Five Years of Funding Digital Courseware, from Means, Peters & Zheng. SRI International, October 2014

WHAT WORKS, FOR WHOM, AND WHEN

VALUABLE INSIGHTS Whole course redesigns Mastery-based learning Individualized pacing Courseware to support underprepared

students Adaptive Blended

http://www.sri.com/work/publications/digital-courseware-lessons

NEXT GENERATIONLEARNINGCHALLENGE

The goal is to improve learning outcomes, mastery, and course completion, especially among low-income, Pell-eligible undergraduates.

PROGRAMPORTFOLIO 7 Grants totaling $22.8M Across the Grant

Term 27 New and Updated Courses in 16

Disciplines 18 Partner Institutions 1.1M Student Enrollment in the Grant Term 40% Average Pell Eligible Students at

Partner Institutions

$4.5M Grant awarded to reach 150,000 students by 2018

$20 per student

Develop new courses in statistics and biology

INITIAL LAUNCH INSTITUTIONS:

PARTNERSHIPS:

$2.0M Grant awarded to reach 100,000 students by 2018

$40 per student

Develop new courses in US History

INITIAL LAUNCH INSTITUTIONS:

PARTNERSHIPS:

FOUNDATION APPROACH

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PROVIDERSEMPLOYERSYOUTH

Source: McKinsey 2012

ARE GRADUATES ADEQUATELY PREPARED?

PERCENTAGE WHO SAID YES

ARTICULATED COMPETENCY PATHWAYS ALIGNED WITH EMPLOYER NEEDS WILL

HELP STUDENTS EARN VALUABLE CREDENTIALS IN LESS TIME, WILL COST LESS, AND RESULT IN HIGHER PAYING

JOBS.

HYPOTHESIS

TIME HAS TRADITIONALLY BEEN THE YARD-STICK BY WHICH EDUCATION

HAS BEEN MEASURED

REGULATION

INSTITUTIONS

REGULATORY BODIES

FOUNDATIONS

COLLABORATIVEINFLUENCEARGUMENTS MADE AND LETTERS SENT TO THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION PUSHING FOR COMPETENCY BASED EDUCATION

CO-FUNDING3-YEAR NETWORK STRATEGY

http://www.cbenetwork.org

EXPERIMENTALINITIATIVE TO TRIAL COMPETENCY BASED EDUCATION WITH FEDERAL STUDENT AID PROGRAM

SENATE SUPPORTHR3136 PASSED IN THE US SENATE TO ESTABLISH A DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM OF COMPETENCY BASED EDUCATION

40 CAMPUSESOFFERING COMPETENCY BASED EDUCATION