Expand and Strenthen Lower-cost Options Strategy Lab
This Lab provides insight into policies and strategies that help build capacity by encouraging lower-cost providers, lower-cost regulations, and lower-cost ways to aggregate academic credit toward a degree.
Overview
States should build their postsecondary capacity by encouraging low-cost providers, implementing low-cost regulations, and low-cost ways to aggregate academic credit toward a degree. |
Arizona
Arizona has developed a regulatory system that cuts red tape which hampers the growth of private-sector alternatives in higher education. |
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Western Governors University
To expand and strengthen low-cost, high quality education, we must seed innovative new models. One such model is the Western Governors University (WGU), an online, nonprofit, private, and competency-based university supported by 19 state governors. |
Western University Exchange
A look at WICHE’s Western University Exchange: an effort to facilitate the movement of students between states, creating in effect a regional market for students that can make programs both more accessible and cost-effective. |
