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Today, more than 300 organizations and nearly 900 individual colleges and universities are joining together to urge Congress to bring an affordable, high-quality college education within reach for all students by doubling the maximum Pell Grant. Please join your voices to support #DoublePell!

More students are enrolling in college but a racial and economic equity gap persists in college degrees. Is this cementing inequality in America? The Pell Insti...tute's 2019 Indicators of Higher Education in the United States: Historical Trend Report will explore this question and more. Join Penn GSE's Larua Perna for a livestreamed discussion of the findings 9 am May 23 as the report is released: https://bit.ly/2M3sCd6 See more

A new study from Penn GSE/Penn AHEAD’s Laura Perna identifies multiple opportunities for improving how colleges use Net Price Calculators to help prospective students estimate the cost of attendance. Visit http://ahead-penn.org/research-pro/questioning-calculations to see the research brief or explore: Tips for students/families Tips for colleges General guidance Recommendations for federal policy. ... The study is further discussed in the following sources: a) Laura Perna and Jeremy Wright-Kim’s article in The Conversation (https://theconversation.com/net-price-calculators-were-supp) b) Inside Higher Education article Obfuscating Net Price (https://www.insidehighered.com//colleges-fall-short-price-) c) EducationDive brief Report: Many colleges continue to lag on cost transparency (https://www.educationdive.com//report-many-college/551501/)

Looking for hands-on solutions to the challenges of university governance? Please join @penngse Peter Eckel next Tuesday, February 5 at 5:30 pm @pennbookstore (3601 Walnut) for a talk about his new book Practical Wisdom: Thinking Differently about College and University Governance.

In today’s InsideHigherEd.com Penn Graduate School of Education's Peter Eckel and his long-term co-author Cathy Trower reflect on how strategy is often a missing component in the college and university strategic planning efforts and explore how institutions can change that.

Penn GSE's Peter Eckel, writing in University World News, analyzes the challenges facing newly created university boards in countries where independent governan...ce is an emerging practice. Dr. Eckel will be discussing his latest book, "Practical Wisdom: Thinking Differently About College and University Governance," co-authored with Cathy Trower, at the University of Pennsylvania Bookstore on Tuesday, February 5 at 5:30pm. See more

Looking for hands-on solutions to the challenges of university governance? Please join @penngse Peter Eckel next Tuesday, February 5 at 5:30 pm @pennbookstore (3601 Walnut) for a talk about his new book Practical Wisdom: Thinking Differently about College and University Governance.

Coming to #AACU19? On 12/24 @ 2:45 please join @PennGSE Laura Perna and Tabbye Chavous, James Devaney and Laura Sanchez-Parkinson from @UniversityOfMichigan to explore strategies that faculty and leaders can adopt to prepare the next generation of public scholars.

Congratulations to Laura and Glen. Your work could not be any more urgent!

With more College Promise programs than any other state, California is a source of potential insight into the overall Promise movement, states the new report on California College Promise by @WestEd’s Mary Rauner, @PennGSE’s Laura Perna and @CollegePromise' Martha Kanter. Learn more about what is happening in California at https://californiacollegepromise.wested.org/ or download the report at https://californiacollegepromise.wested.org//College-Promi.

Colleagues, we have to postpone our next week’s seminar due to a medical emergency. We hope to be in touch with a new date in a few months. We sincerely apologize for this unfortunate turn of events.

Please join us on Tuesday, October 23 @ 12:00 for The Effect of State Funding for Postsecondary Education on Long-Run Student Outcomes seminar with Raji Chackrabarti, senior economist at the @newyorkfed. Co-hosted by @penngse’s Laura Perna and @WhartonSchool’s Fernando Ferreira, the seminar will be held at Stiteler Hall (208 S. 37th Street), Room B32. For additional information please visit https://www.ahead-penn.org//effect-state-funding-postsecon

Laura Perna, Diane Eynon and Penn GSE Exec Doc in Higher Education Management C17 at Peking University Graduate School of Education with Professors Min Weifang and Ma Wanhua. Kudos to our colleagues at PKU for an incredible international trip! @penngse @PKU1898

Tomorrow is the first day of the Student Financial Aid Research Network’s 35th annual conference. If you are coming, please join @penngse Laura Walter Perna and Jeremy Wright for their two sessions on Friday!

The 2018 Indicators of Higher Education Equity in the United States report has been released today by the Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education @councilforopportunityineducation (www.pellinstitute.org) and the Alliance for Higher Education and Democracy at @penngse (www.ahead-penn.org). For the first time the report includes state by state data for most indicators. Learn more and download a copy at www.pellinstitute.org/indicators. Margaret Cahalan, Laura Perna, Mika Yamashita and Jeremy Wright after the presentation at the National Press Club.

@penngse Alan Ruby and @nugse2014 Aisi Li explore why investment in the development of human capital is an important missing piece of the Chinese government’s Belt and Road Initiative. Read more in @timeshighered: https://www.timeshighereducation.com//chinas-overseas-inve

In a recent blog about the highly sensitive task faced by the India’s Empowered Expert Committee to select 20 institutions of eminence from the group of 114 applicants, AHEAD’s Matt Hartley and Alan Ruby, and Venkatesh Kumar from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, recommend using a transparent and objective assessment process and call on the committee to share a brief report with all applicant institutions and give them an opportunity to respond. This has an element of procedural fairness, they suggest, But, more importantly, it encourages the institution to be self-reflective, which, in turn, can lead to improvement regardless of the outcome of the application. Read the blog post at: https://blogs.economictimes.indiatimes.com//selecting-wor/