Who Attended?
Conference participants from every sector of higher education in Pennsylvania participated in this informative and informational event!
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Presidents
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Vice presidents and provosts
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Enrollment Managers
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Deans and faculty
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Registrars
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Academic advisors
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Admissions and financial aid professionals
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Student services professionals
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Administrators
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State policymakers
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Representatives from organizations related to higher education
The Challenge
Realizing Our Role in Higher Education
As a state with more than 120 institutions of higher education, Pennsylvania can play a significant role in attaining the President’s goal.
Pennsylvania will continue it's work in joining the President’s national effort to expand access and success in education beyond high school.
Whitepapers & Articles of Interest
Stepping It Up:
Building Pathways to College Success In Pennsylvania and Nationwide (PDF)
Findings from the Pennsylvania Governor’s Conference on Higher Education
March 16-18, 2009
How Far States Have to Go to Meet Obama's College-Completion Goal - Online Article from Chronicle of Higher Education
Pennsylvania Joins a National Effort to Significantly Increase College Completion by 2020
Citing the need to increase the number of Pennsylvania students who finish college, Governor Edward G. Rendell recently announced the state has teamed with 16 other states in an effort to significantly increase college completion rates by 2020.
> Read Full Press Release
> Complete College America Web Site
Post Conference Updates
Presentations
All presentations that where presented at the conference are now posted and may be found here.
They are provided in both Adobe PDF and Microsoft PowerPoint Show Format.
Thank You Conference Sponsors!
The Pennsylvania Department of Education would also like to thank the following sponsors for their generous support of the 2010 Governor’s Conference on Higher Education:
Educational Testing Service (ETS)
ACT, Inc.
Evaluation Systems group of Pearson
The College Board
AcademyOne, Inc.
Kaplan Higher Education
ConnectEDU
Docufide
The Pennsylvania Association of Colleges and Universities (PACU)
Sungard Higher Education
Pearson Learning Solutions
Pennsylvania Campus Compact