Left Out: Getting More Students to Higher Ed

Mar 5, 2019

12:30pm – 1:30pm CT

Why is America falling behind its ambitious plan to get more Americans into higher education, and what can be done about it? We talk about initiatives and new policies to help veterans, the lack of school counselors and employment needs that depend on a robust pool of trained college graduates ready for jobs that drive the economy at a time when forty six percent of American employers can't find the workers they need.

Programming descriptions are generated by participants and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of SXSW.

Programming descriptions are generated by participants and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of SXSW.

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Jan Friese

Texas Counseling Association

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Jeremiah Gunderson

The University of Texas at Austin

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Liz Willen

The Hechinger Report