All Penn AHEAD Papers
Document Type
Other
Date of this Version
6-2016
Keywords
College completion, college attainment, graduation rates across student groups, barriers to completion, college leader perceptions
Copyright/Permission Statement
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Recommended Citation
Perna, L. W. (June 2016). Closing Gaps in Higher Education Attainment (What’s AHEAD: Key Trends in Higher Education No. 10). Philadelphia, PA: Alliance for Higher Education and Democracy, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania.
Date Posted: 19 October 2020
Comments
This report summarizes the results of a poll of members of the What’s AHEAD trend-spotter panel (n = 368). The panel is made up of higher education leaders, including alumni of the Executive Doctorate program in Higher Education Management at the University of Pennsylvania, and members of NASPA-Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education. We received 134 responses during the 9-day period in which the poll was open (May 10 through 18, 2016): 111 of 248 Executive Doctorate alumni, 20 members of NASPA, and 3 other higher education leaders. About half (52%) of respondents work at private not-for-profit four-year institutions, 20% work at public four-year institutions, 8% at public two-year institutions, 2% at for-profit institutions, 3% at non-US based universities, and less than 1% in administrative units (e.g., system offices). The remaining respondents (14%) work in organizations other than colleges and universities. More than a third (36%) of respondents hold positions that focus on administration, 26% on academic matters, 19% in student affairs, 4% in finance, and 15% in other areas.
Additional commentary is available at https://ahead-penn.org/commentary-june-2016