Goal 2025 : The Path to Equity and Economic Success For Our Cities

1. Goal 2025: The Path to Equity and Economic Success For Our Cities Presented by Dr. James L. Applegate Vice President, Lumina Foundation

2. Goal 2025 • To increase the percentage of Americans who hold high-quality degrees and credentials to 60 percent by 2025.

3. What We Must Do To Reach Goal 2025?

6. Why is achieving Goal 2025 Important?

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8. Income by level of education Source: US Census, Current Population Survey master’s bachelor’s associate high school Less than high school

9. Income inequality grows along with the postsecondary skills gap

10. To Succeed We Must Focus On 21st Century Students • Of the 17.6M undergrads now enrolled 75% are juggling work, family, and school

11. To Succeed We Must Focus on Adults

12. To Succeed Ohio Must Focus on Adults

13. To Succeed We Must Achieve Equity

14. To Succeed Ohio Must Achieve Equity

15. To Succeed We Must Serve Our Future Millions Data for all races exclude Hispanics. Population Division, Population Projections, U.S. Census Bureau. Released 2008.

16. To Succeed We Must Close Income Gaps Postsecondary Education Opportunity, “Bachelor’s Degree Attainment by Age 24 by Family Income Quartiles, 1970 to 2008.

17. Yet We Serve Those Least Who Need Us Most College Board

18. Total Cost of Attendance Covered by Maximum Pell Grant Award Source: American Council on Education (2007). “ Status Report on the Pell Grant Program, 2007” cited in EdTrust (2010) Opportunity Adrift.

19. Change in Distribution of State Grants Based on Need Source: NASSGAP Report 2007-08: Undergraduate Grant Aid in Constant 2007-08 Dollars: 1997-98 through 2007-08 (in millions of dollars).

20. Flagships give the same amount of aid to high-income students as they do to low-income students . “Opportunity Adrift,” The Education Trust, 2010.

21. To Succeed Our Cities Must Succeed

22. To Succeed Cleveland Must Educate Its People

23. To Succeed Cities Must Collaborate (http://www.ssireview.org/blog/entry/channeling_change_making_collective_impact_work)

24. To Succeed We Need Catalytic Approaches Scaling Effective Practice Public Policy Advocacy Public Will Building

25. So What is a City to Do? • Set audacious goals • Focus on results and have the difficult conversations • Forbid blame games and excuses • Create aligned value chains from pre-K to workforce • Target 21st century students • Collaborate for collective impact (beyond the usual suspects) • Tackle academic, financial, and social college readiness • Serve the underserved • Measure learning and demand quality • Increase system productivity • Align resources and priorities

26. College is necessary Qualified students have the opportunity to go to college Source: Public Agenda and National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education

27. Goal 2025: Its About Their (and Our) Future