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Acknowledgments |
This paper was commissioned by the National Center for Public Policy and Higher
Education, with additional support from the New Millennium project at the Institute for
Higher Education Policy. Thanks are due to a number of people who shared their
expertise and insights: Katherine Boswell, with the Center for Community College Policy
at the Education Commission of the States; Ellen Bradburn, with MPR, Inc.; Robert
McCabe, member of the National Center’s Board of Directors and Senior Associate with
the League for Innovation in the Community Colleges; Kent Philippe, with the American
Association of Community Colleges; David Pierce, member of the Board of Directors for
the Institute for Higher Education Policy and President Emeritus of the American
Association of Community Colleges; Katalyn Szelenyi, with the UCLA Transfer
Assembly Project; and Virginia Taylor, at Genessee Community College in New York.
Special thanks also go to several people who shared data, agreed to be interviewed, and
reviewed early drafts of the state profiles: Lu Hardin and Ron Harrell, from the Arkansas
Board of Higher Education; Patricia Windham, with the Florida Board of Education;
Bruce Hamlett and Tom Root, with the New Mexico Commission on Higher Education;
Glenwood Rouse, with the New York State Department of Education; Gary Barnes and
Troy Barksdale, with the University of North Carolina Board of Governors; and Marshall
Hill, from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. Responsibility for errors and
misinterpretations remains with the author.
Jane V. Wellman
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