Invitation

Invitation: Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Midwest at Learning Point Associates is sponsoring a full-day conference to review the emerging research about increasing access to higher education for all students. Policymakers and leaders from higher education and state education agencies from across the country are invited to engage in a collaborative policy discussion with the following distinguished presenters: Thomas Bailey, Ph.D., Director of the National Center for Postsecondary Research; Freeman Hrabowski III, Ph.D., President of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Nicole Farmer Hurd, Ph.D., Executive Director of the National College Advising Corps; Robert Shireman, Deputy Under Secretary of Education at the U.S. Department of Education; and William Tierney, Ph.D., Wilbur-Kieffer Professor of Higher Education and Director of the Center for Higher Education Policy Analysis at the University of Southern California Rossier School of Education.