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A Presentation of the Educational Policy Institute
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• A Marshall Plan for Higher Education
• Friday, March 16, 2007
• Moderator Watson Scott Swail, Educational Policy
  Institute
• Guests William G. Tierney, University of
  Southern California
• [phone]

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William G. Tierney

• -Director of the Center for Higher Education
  Policy Analysis and Wilbur-Kieffer Professor of
  Higher Education at the Rossier School of
  Education, University of Southern California
• -Past president of the Academic Senate of the
  University of Southern California.
• -Served as president of the Association for the
  Study of Higher Education.
• -Recent publications include Preparing for
  College Nine Elements of Effective Outreach
  (edited with Julia Colyar and Zoë Blumberg
  Corwin SUNY Press, 2005), Competing Conceptions
  of Academic Governance Negotiating the Perfect
  Storm (editor Johns Hopkins University Press,
  2004).

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On Bills Emails

• "A certain prince, upon being asked why he had
  no court fool, replied that, when he wanted a
  laugh, he had a couple of professors come to his
  residence and valiantly dispute with one
  another" 
• J. M. von Loen, 1742

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A Marshall Plan for Higher Education
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A Marshall Plan for Higher Education
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• Guarantee free tuition to a two- or four-year
  public institution in California to all 8th
  graders who qualify for the free or reduced lunch
  program, graduate on time from high school with a
  standard diploma, and enroll full-time within two
  years of high school graduation.

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A Marshall Plan for Higher Education
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• Ensure access to at least 12 units of college
  credit (either by Advanced Placement,
  International Baccalaureate, and/or concurrent
  enrollment at an accredited two or four-year
  college) for all eligible high school students
  prior to high school graduation.

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A Marshall Plan for Higher Education
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• Provide summer and inter-session seminars for
  all high school students who are not
  reading/writing or doing math at grade level
  beginning in the 9th grade.

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A Marshall Plan for Higher Education
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• Ensure that the ratio of students to college
  counselors in low college-going high schools is
  no more than 2501 and that college counselors
  focus exclusively on college-going activities for
  their high school students.

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A Marshall Plan for Higher Education
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• Require all high school graduates who have been
  admitted to a postsecondary institution and are
  not reading/writing or doing math at the
  college-level to participate in an intensive
  summer of writing and/or math classes and
  mentoring prior to their freshmen year.

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A Marshall Plan for Higher Education
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• Require that any postsecondary institution that
  receives state funding establish and maintain
  intensive partnerships devoted to academic
  preparation and mentorship with at least two
  public low-college-going high schools.

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A Marshall Plan for Higher Education
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• Allow all students who demonstrate financial
  need and have attended a California high school
  for three years or more to gain access to Cal
  Grants.

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A Marshall Plan for Higher Education
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• Provide college loan relief to a maximum of
  20,000 for all California high school students
  who participate in two years of public service in
  California after graduation from an undergraduate
  college.

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Next Week

• The First-Year Experience
• Dr. John Gardner
• Executive Director, Policy Center for the
  First-Year Experience
• Friday, March 23, 1pm

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A Presentation of the Educational Policy Institute