Equity comes down to fifth-graders for Fernando Figueroa, the president of Gateway Community & Technical College in Kentucky. There are several things they need to understand about their potential, he says.
Decades of leadership experience have clarified for me the ways that higher education must change if we want to realize a fundamental purpose of attending college.
Economic and demographic realities are pressuring colleges to produce employable graduates and many schools are innovating to attract underserved groups.
