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Raise the Bar Today, Michigan can make no more important statement about the critical nature of postsecondary education than to guarantee that all students can complete meaningful postsecondary education after they finish high school. Just as the high school diploma came to define expectations of minimum educational attainment in the twentieth century, postsecondary education must be the new minimum standard for the twenty-first century, and its achievement is a shared responsibility of the student, community, and state. RECOMMENDATION Make Higher Education Universal The commission recommends that Michigan, over the next decade, forge a new compact with its residents: an expectation that all students will achieve a postsecondary degree or credential coupled with a guarantee from the state of financial support linked to the achievement of that goal. This commitment to universal higher education should strive to remove financial and other barriers to degree and credential completion and end, once and for all, the idea that postsecondary education is an option rather than a necessity. The compact will send a powerful message to Michigan’s current residents and businesses and to those it hopes to attract: Michigan will set and reach the new standard of educational achievement in America. (Participation Work Group rec. 1, Completion Work Group rec. 1, Economic Benefits Work Group rec. 2) News
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