* The appropriate level of education for American workers should include - as a minimum - some form of post-secondary education or training.
Kean, while speaking to reporters following the study's presentation, said that community colleges will require the bulk of increased funding support and reform. This is so, according to Kean, because the largest increase in future workforce training and education needs will result at the sub-baccalaureate level where community colleges already specialize.
David L. Warren, president of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities disputed the main point of the study, saying that the report focused almost entirely on the increase in the published prices of colleges and universities. "Institutionally provided aid, which makes institutions affordable, is mentioned only in a footnote. Any fair analysis of college affordability must focus on net tuition, and not solely on the growth in published tuition levels."
Warren said that "many independent institutions, already starting from a 'lean and mean' posture, have adopted significant cost reduction practices in their operations."
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