Education Leaders Convene at U.S. News Summit Navigating Higher Education’s Future (U.S. News)

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Education Leaders Convene at U.S. News Summit Navigating Higher Education’s Future (U.S. News)

April 30, 2025 by EdTrust

“While examining policy changes reshaping higher education, Roxanne Garza, director of higher education policy at The Education Trust, highlighted the nontraditional pathways students are taking now. “We are seeing much more focus on what different pathways look like, into post-secondary education, into the middle class. We are seeing more emphasis on other kinds of high-quality pathways,” said Garza. “We want to make sure that these different pathways available to students, which may be shorter and cheaper, are of higher quality, and we see more variety in what’s available to students post-high school graduation.”