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About the National Center The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education is an independent, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization. It is not affiliated with any government agency, political party, or college or university. The National Center conducts policy research and fosters public awareness and discussion of public policy issues affecting education and training beyond high school. The purpose of the National Center's studies and reports, including Measuring Up 2002, is to stimulate public policies that will improve the effectiveness and accessibility of higher education. 
The National Center was established in 1998 with founding grants from The Atlantic Philanthropies and The Pew Charitable
Trusts that supported the initiation of its programs, including the state-by-state report card. These grants enabled the National Center
to launch the report card project, to design its methodology, and to test its feasibility through a ten-state prototype. The Ford
Foundation has also provided core and specific project support to the National Center. Refinement of the report card methodology,
extension of it to all 50 states, and the publication and dissemination of Measuring Up 2002 has been made possible by a
major grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation that has been matched by The Atlantic Philanthropies, the
Carnegie Corporation of New York, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, The Pew Charitable Trusts, and the
William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust, respectively. A grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation supported an external,
independent review of the report card data and methodology.
Measuring Up 2002 was made possible by these grants. The statements and views expressed in this report, however, do not necessarily reflect those of the funders, and are the responsibility of the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education.
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