Terri Taylor
Strategy Director
Taylor leads the foundation’s efforts to develop new strategies to respond to the increasingly common question, education for what?
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What the Supreme Court’s admissions decision says about Democracy
July 18, 2023
Not that long ago, higher education advocates regularly complained about the lack of national attention on colleges and universities. A huge win involved a sentence or two in the president’s State of the Union or a governor’s State of the State.
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Getting real about climate change in higher education
June 21, 2023
Smoke filled the air, and everyone sheltered inside recently as Washington, D.C., hit code purple for air quality for the first time ever. The following week, the weather was so beautiful that I walked miles between meetings just to get outside.
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New hope for college students with ‘stranded’ transcripts
Dec. 8, 2021
Ever started pulling at a string on a sweater and ended up with a fistful of yarn? That’s how I’ve felt while going into a deeper understanding of how and why holds are placed on a student’s transcript or enrollment and the impact that it has on students. But untangling these complexities is e
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College students could see ‘generational’ benefit from pandemic support - if we do this right
May 12, 2021
Federal emergency dollars for colleges and universities provide a generational opportunity – not only to respond to the pandemic, but to reimagine how institutions support current and prospective students. This is especially true for those who know that college can be helpful but aren’t sure how
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Knowing the numbers on student borrowers of color doesn’t mean you understand the problem.
March 3, 2021
Anyone who pays attention to higher education policy should know by now the outsized debt burdens shouldered by Black, Hispanic or Latino, and Native American students. And yet we haven’t yet moved from admiring the problem to implementing solutions, in part because the space has been dominated by
