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This month the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation released a 115-page report calling for more information to help students make better choices about where to go to college, eliminating “completion gaps,” and “removing affordability as an impediment to postsecondary value.” Underlying the report’s recommendations is the belief that profound inequalities of race, ethnicity, and gender are holding back higher education from fulfilling its potential role in advancing American society and making it more equitable.

The articles in this compilation explore the report and the underlying issues it raises. Some colleges – even before the report’s release – were working on the issues raised in the study. And essays examine both the report and related issues.

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