Offers lessons learned and best practices from the state's successful efforts to raise access to and attainment of higher education through academic preparation, affordability, and a differentiated higher education system and by addressing student needs.

Details the need for more postsecondary education options resulting from the huge increase in demand for postsecondary education, and the role that California's community colleges must play in meeting that need. Provides policy recommendations.

Presents recommendations by the Kauffman Panel on Entrepreneurship Curriculum in Higher Education on making entrepreneurship a key element in the curriculum, co-curriculum activities, and university management. Includes profiles of innovative programs.

Outlines preliminary studies of an initiative to integrate high school reform, early college information, scholarships, and mentoring in a comprehensive approach to reducing inequality and expanding low-income students' access to higher education.

Examines support for college readiness and access initiatives among Fortune 100 companies, best practices in helping disadvantaged students, and case studies. Discusses the importance of higher education to enhancing the U.S. workforce's competitiveness.

Examines access to and success in higher education for African Americans in the South, and recommends that states adopt comprehensive plans to achieve equity in higher education.

Provides a review of research literature that examines the impact of higher education on individuals and society. Looks at economic and non-economic benefits and costs associated with an increase in public investment in postsecondary education.

Revisits the findings of a series of reports on the state of college athletics and evaluates progress made in the intervening ten years, finding that the NCAA has moved a long way toward achieving the goals laid out in the commission's earlier reports.