Equitable Value: Promoting Economic Mobility and Social Justice through Postsecondary Education

Institution	Postsecondary Value Commission
Titel	Equitable Value: Promoting Economic Mobility and Social Justice through Postsecondary Education
Quelle	(2021), (115 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Postsecondary Education; Social Justice; Social Mobility; Economic Factors; Outcomes of Education; Educational Policy; Income; Equal Opportunities (Jobs); Poverty; Success; College Role; At Risk Students; Minority Group Students; Low Income Students; Females; Equal Education; Educational Practices; Student Development; School Policy; Institutional Characteristics; Barriers + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Post-secondary education; Tertiäre Bildung; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Soziale Mobilität; Ökonomischer Faktor; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Einkommen; Equal opportunity; Equal opportunities; Job; Jobs; Chancengleichheit; Beruf; Armut; Erfolg; Weibliches Geschlecht; Bildungspraxis; Schulpolitik
Abstract	Postsecondary education can offer individuals the opportunity to earn a livable wage and build a better life for themselves and their families, while also fostering a healthier and more democratic society. Yet, postsecondary education must do more to dismantle its own inequitable policies and practices, which play a role in perpetuating and exacerbating the injustices in society at large. It is in this context that the Postsecondary Value Commission has examined how postsecondary education fosters equitable access to critical post-college outcomes, including sufficient earnings, high-quality jobs, and economic mobility and security. The Postsecondary Value Commission was responsible for producing the following interrelated deliverables: (1) a conceptual definition of postsecondary value and core principles to guide institutional improvement efforts and policy conversations about equitably increasing students' post-college economic success and mobility; (2) a framework to gauge how specific institutions and programs create value for students and ensure equitable completion and post-college outcomes for Black, Latinx, Indigenous, and underrepresented AAPI students, students from low-income backgrounds, and women; and (3) an action agenda with recommendations for applying the definition and framework to change policies and practices so that institutions and programs deliver postsecondary value more equitably. Higher earnings derived from attaining postsecondary credentials operate together with an individual's ability to accumulate wealth and reap the benefits from important non-economic returns to education, such as exposure to new cultures, peoples, and ideas; fostering personal growth; and preparing them to be engaged, equity-minded members of society who are able and willing to disrupt injustices and right past wrongs. As the world continues to wrestle with the dual challenges of COVID-19 and longstanding systemic racism, it must embraced that postsecondary value is about both earning a decent wage and building a stronger and fairer democracy. This report details the Postsecondary Value Commission's work to capture and operationalize this sentiment. [For the executive summary, see ED612663.] (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	Postsecondary Value Commission. Available from: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. e-mail: ValueCommission@IHEP.org; Website: https://www.postsecondaryvalue.org/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01