Looking Back to Move Forward: A History of Federal Student Aid
This documentary series provides insight into the programs’ origins, milestones, and current issues as we ponder future direction and navigate foreseeable roadblocks to new policy innovation.
Community Partnership for Attainment
Community Partnership for Attainment is a community mobilization initiative designed to dramatically increase the number of local residents with postsecondary credentials.
Learn more and view IHEP’s tactical guidebooks here.
Postsecondary Data Collaborative (PostsecData)
Through the PostsecData Collaborative, IHEP is leading efforts to improve postsecondary education data quality and use. For example, in May 2016, IHEP collaborated with partners to publish 11 policy papers on Envisioning the National Postsecondary Infrastructure in the 21st Century – the largest effort to date aimed at improving national postsecondary data systems. Explore the policy recommendations here.
Reimagining Aid Design and Delivery
The RADD project identifies and develops innovative postsecondary financial aid solutions that ensure increased access and success for low-income students.
Project Win-Win
Sixty-one participating colleges (in nine states) joined forces to locate qualified students who never received an associate's degree and to award those degrees retroactively. This effort also identified former students who were no more than nine to 12 credits short of an associate’s degree and sought to find and bring them back to college to complete the degree. To date, more than 4,500 students have received degrees retroactively, as a result of this effort.
Pathways to College Network
IHEP directs and is a core member of the Pathways to College Network (PCN), an alliance of national partners working collaboratively to improve college access and success for underserved students.
College Not Prison
The Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) is leading #CollegeNotPrison, a social media and public awareness campaign to educate policymakers, campus leaders, and the public about the financial aid barriers justice-involved youth face when pursuing higher education. Together with other advocates and researchers in the field, we are working to let policymakers at all levels know they must fix broken systems that put corrections spending before education. To join us and learn more, visit the campaign's website.