2022
Essays
The Right to Higher Education: Key Challenges in the U.S. Context and Suggested Principles in a Global Context(.pdf)
By Margaret Cahalan, Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education
2021
Essays
Unequal and Far Reaching Ripples of the Student Debt Crisis — Indicators of Higher Education Equity, Data Story, Winter 2021, Issue 2 (.pdf)
By Marisha Addison and Margaret Cahalan
2020
Essays
A Focus on First Generation Students, First Generation College Celebration — Indicators of Higher Education Equity, Data Story, Fall 2020, Issue 1 (.pdf)
By Marisha Addison and Margaret Cahalan
Will the Dual Crises of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Climate Change be Portals to Widening Opportunity or Will the Doors Close Even Tighter? (.pdf)
By Margaret Cahalan
Where Do We Go from Here? Reflections on the Impact of COVID-19 on Higher Education in the United States from Two Recent TRIO Graduates (.pdf)
By Marisha Addison and Chelsea Murray
A Warm Welcome From the Equity Indicators — 2020 Project Team at Pell Institute of COE and PennAHEAD of University of Pennsylvania (.pdf)
A Warm Welcome From the Equity Indicators — 2020 Project Team at Pell Institute of COE and PennAHEAD of University of Pennsylvania (recording)
By Margaret W. Cahalan, Laura W. Perna, Marisha Addison, Chelsea Murray, Pooja R. Patel and Nathan Jiang
2017
Essays
The Geography of College Attainment: Dismantling Rural “Disadvantage” (.pdf)
By Roman Ruiz and Laura W. Perna
Advisory Board Meeting — Improving Equity in Higher Education Attainment in the United States (.pdf)
2016
Is Higher Education a Human Right or a Competitive Investment Commodity? (.pdf)
By Margaret Cahalan, Khadish Franklin, and Mika Yamashita
Eight Proposals to Help Inform Reauthorization of the Higher Education Act with a Focus on Financial Aid (.pdf)
By Tom Mortenson
Reducing the Stratification of College “Choice” (.pdf)
By Laura W. Perna and Roman Ruiz
Visioning a More Equitable Higher Education System in the United States: A Dialogue about Historical Trends and Proposals for HEA Reauthorization (.pdf)
By Margaret Cahalan, Mika Yamashita, Khadish Franklin, and Tom Mortenson
Second Annual Release of the Indicators of Higher Education Equity in the United States: 2016 Historical Trend Report and the Search for Solutions-Shared Dialogues (.pdf)
By Margaret Cahalan, Mika Yamashita, Khadish Franklin, Laura Perna, and Roman Ruiz
Financial Barriers to Opportunity for Higher Education (.pdf)
By Tom Mortenson
Search for Solutions-Shared Dialogues (.pdf)
2015
Sixteen Strategies for Widening Equity of Participation in Higher Education in the United States: Reflections from International Comparisons (.pdf)
By Margaret Cahalan, Ph.D.
Improving Equity in Higher Education Attainment: A National Imperative (.pdf)
By Laura W. Perna and James S. Riepe
Equity in Higher Education: A National Imperative Search for Solutions Dialogues (.pdf)
By Margaret Cahalan and Laura W. Perna