Website of the Week

National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, http://www.highereducation.org/

"As an independent, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, the National Center prepares action-oriented analyses of pressing policy issues facing the states and the nation regarding opportunity and achievement in higher education-including two- and four-year, public and private, for-profit and nonprofit institutions. The National Center communicates performance results and key findings to the public, to civic, business and higher education leaders, and to state and federal leaders who are poised to improve higher education policy."

Recent reports published by the Center and available at the website in PDF include:

• College Affordability In Jeopardy, February 2003
• Measuring Up 2002: The State-by-State Report Card for Higher Education, October 2002
• The Affordability of Higher Education: A Review of Recent Survey Research, May 2002

The Center also issues a quarterly newsletter called Crosstalk, to which readers may subscribe by email.