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Higher education took top billing in this year’s State of the Union address, with President Barack Obama vowing to make community colleges as “free and universal as high school.”

Just days after that historic proposal, nearly 200 of the nation’s top higher education officials, federal policymakers and scholars came together at a conference to forecast the future of college admissions. Titled it was hosted by the (CERPP).

The three-day conference also spanned the issues of increasing diversity among America’s future college-goers, and growing interest in American education from abroad.

“College enrollment in the future will be reshaped by demographic shifts, the success of K–12 reform, global mobility, opportunity for transfer students and innovative methods to engage new student populations,” said Jerry Lucido, the center’s executive director and professor of research at ������̳. “It will take all sectors of education operating well together to ensure that education levels in the nation improve.”

The conference included keynote addresses by Princeton University Professor Marta Tienda, U.S. Department of Education Undersecretary Ted Mitchell and ������̳ and USC Viterbi Professor John Brooks Slaughter.

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