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POLICY BRIEF How to Reinvigorate Higher Education for the 21st Century 13 Recommendations for Reauthorizing the Higher Education Act (HEA) NOVEMBER 2017 November 2017 13 Recommendations for Reauthorizing the Higher Education Act (HEA) Today education and training beyond high school Americans have completed some coursework or 3 are more essential to our success as individuals training beyond high school. Nearly 70 percent of and as a nation than ever before. Experts estimate the high school class of 2016 continued directly to that approximately two-thirds of American jobs college the following fall.4 will require some postsecondary education or 1 training by 2020. Of the jobs created since the last These trends make the federal Higher Education recession, almost all have gone to workers with at Act (HEA), which governs federal student aid least some college education.2 programs and accreditation rules for colleges and universities, more important than ever. Americans have responded to these new realities, First passed in 1965, the HEA was most recently and education beyond high school is now the reauthorized in 2008 and has been due for norm in the US. As of 2016, 60 percent of adult reauthorization since 2013. Chart 1 Percent of US adult population with at least some college, 1980-2016 100%