In the article, New Research Center Will Study Ways to Enhance College Access and Degree Completion, reporter Elyse Ashburn details the launch of the National Center for Postsecondary Research:

“The new National Center for Postsecondary Research, based at Columbia University's Teachers College, offered a glimpse this week of the course it will chart over the next few years.

“Officials at the center, which opened in July, outlined on Wednesday key aspects of a research agenda that will concentrate on ways to reduce barriers to postsecondary education and increase college-completion rates….

“The postsecondary-research center opened just months before the federal Commission on the Future of Higher Education released its report, which stated that community colleges would be key in educating the future work force and setting the educational system right.”

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