Arkansas Department of Higher Education Update DR. BRETT POWELL, ADHE DIRECTOR

Source: Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education, Indicators of Higher Education Equity in the United States

Attainment Objectives

Goal 1:Raise completion and graduation rates for colleges and universities by 10%.

Goal 2: Increase by 50% the enrollment of adults, age 25 to 54, by fall 2018

Goal 3: Raise the credential attainment rates of underserved student groups in the state relative to other students by 10%

GOAL 4: Improve College Affordability through Effective Resource Allocation

New Mathways Project

Remedial Placement

Robert Maynard Hutchins “Up to the onset of the present depression it was fashionable to call for more and more education. Anything that went by the name of education was a good thing just because it went by that name. I believe that the magic of the name is gone and that we must now present a defensible program if we wish to preserve whatever we have that is of value.” “Money comes to education in three ways – from students, from donors and from legislatures. To frame a policy in order to appeal to any one of the three is fatal, and, as I have suggested, often futile as well.”