State urged to boost higher-ed enrollment over next decade

A new “compact” that aims to increase dramatically the state’s percentage of college graduates was released Tuesday by state legislative and higher-education leaders. How to ensure that the legions of new Vermont students will be able to afford college, however, was among the “challenges” left for another day. The “Compact with the State of Vermont,” drawn up by the advisory Commission on Higher Education Funding, calls for Vermont to raise the share of two-year and four-year graduates from the current 42 percent of the population to 60 percent by 2019.

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