[CBW_Exec] Fwd: response to "UC Admissions Changes Align with State Strategic Higher Education Plan."

[GlsnBarb@aol.com]

Hi Susan, 

Thanks for forwarding your excellent letter and the published memo you are 
responding to. Great Work! 

A state by state analysis of recent stuctural changes in both public and 
private colleges would be useful to have ready-to-hand. I'd love to read it if 
anyone knows of one. 

Council of Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL) did something similar and 
produced a very rich analysis of state by state educational and workforce 
participation for adults. Here is just a sample of a finding reported on: "In 
35 states, more than 60 percent of the population does not have an 
associate's degree or higher." A major focus of this report is an argument for 
encouraging   adults to return to college. (I heard from a CAEL official that in 
an exchange that took place at a conference,   Cliff Adelman disagreed with 
some of the data or conclusions.) 

Here is a link to a summary of Adult Learning in Focus: National and 
State-by-State Data (2008):
http://www.cael.org/adultlearninginfocus.htm 
Here is a link to the full report: 
http://www.cael.org/pdf/State_Indicators_Monograph.pdf
If you haven't read this already, you might want to check it out. If you 
have read it, I'd like to know what you think. Maybe in an off-line response 
to avoid flooding people's emails? 

Warm regards to you all,   Barbara Gleason

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