State Profile

Purpose

In this Assignment, you will examine a particular state’s ability to provide access to higher education and maintain its affordability. For this Assignment, you should use websites and reports (including some you have already looked at in previous units) to construct a profile of a state of your choosing.

This is the sort of information you might gather as an employee in a public institution investigating the state’s financial support for your institution, or even as a citizen or parent investigating support for higher education in a particular state.

The sources listed in the required and optional Readings in Units 1 through 3 will be important sources of data, as will many of the following listed websites. You will use these resources to identify key indicators in the areas of access and affordability, and describe how the indicators you chose highlight the state’s support (or lack thereof) for public higher education. Indicators are data or information demonstrating the current status in the state. Some examples of accessibility indicators would be participation in higher education by various demographics; academic preparedness; and persistence to graduation by various demographics. Examples of affordability indicators would be college costs in comparison to other states; student debt loads; and percentage of family income needed to pay for college.

Completing your State Profile Assignment

1. Decide which state you want to profile. You could choose the state in which you now live, or another one that is interesting to you.
2. Examine the Readings from previous units and the websites listed below to identify indicators you might use to assess your chosen state’s ability to support higher education.
3. Choose two or three indicators that relate to access and affordability policies in your state.
4. Prepare your written state profile in the following format using the information you found.

Format

Your state profile Assignment should adhere to the following format:

Introduction: Provide a context and purpose for your paper, including why you chose the state you did and why you are investigating state support for higher education.

Access: In a paragraph or two, describe the indicators you chose to determine how well your state provides access to higher education and related policies the state uses to support accessibility. Summarize whether you think the state does a good job of this, using appropriate references.

Affordability: In a paragraph or two, describe the indicators you chose to determine how well your state provides affordability in higher education and related policies the state uses to support affordability. Summarize whether you think the state does a good job of this, using appropriate references.

Conclusion: Wrap up your paper, summarizing your major points.

Your paper should be 3–4 pages of content in length. Include proper title and reference pages. As always, be sure to cite all websites and documents (books, articles, etc.) using proper APA style

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