Colleges and Universities

Since 2015, the Aspen Institute College Excellence Program and the Siemens Foundation have honored excellent college programs that are moving students into in-demand STEM fields. In the year ahead we are refocusing this prize on not just excellence but also equity.

This spring, the Expanding Prosperity Impact Collaborative (EPIC), an initiative of the Aspen Institute Financial Security Program, released a study on ways to help those with student loan debt to eliminate some portion of their federal student loans.

Education technology company Chegg and the Aspen Institute Financial Security Program recently hosted a webinar and gave a frank assessment of where we are and what some companies are doing to alleviate the problem for their employees.

Aspen Institute President and CEO Dan Porterfield delivered remarks at the AspenBrainLab conference on July 12, 2019 in Aspen, CO.

Aspen Institute President and CEO Dan Porterfield delivered the keynote address during the 2019 Georgetown University Phi Beta Kappa Initiat

Aspen Institute President and CEO Dan Porterfield delivered the following remarks at the commencement ceremony for the Kendall and West Camp

How can universities work together to create equal access to higher education for talented students, no matter where they’re from or how much they have?

Dan Porterfield, Paula Johnson, and Samhita Mukhopadhyay talk about the university's role in student health at Spotlight Health.

et to know the Aspen Institute’s higher education strategy through a fireside chat between two experts who are well-versed in this field.